One of the most important parts of your browser is the address bar. This is what it looks like...
Every web page on the Internet has its own address or URL. For example, the URL or address of the Helotes Elementary School web-site is: http://www.nisd.net/helotww/home.htm
Try it now!
Type the following address into your address bar and
press ENTER. Remember to type very carefully! You need to copy this address
exactly as it is below...
http://www.nisd.net/helotww/driverslicense/addressbar.html
HYPERLINKS
The pages on the World Wide Web are all linked so that you can move around them. The pages are linked together using Hyperlinks. Clicking on hyperlinks will instantly connect you to another website. Remember these three rules:
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| If you move your mouse over a hyperlink,
it will change to the shape of a hand, like this...  |
| If you click on a hyperlink, you will go to a different page. |
One of the words below is a hyperlink...
When you have found it, click on it.
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Pictures can also be hyperlinks. Here are three pictures, but only one of them is a hyperlink. Which one is it?
When you have found it, click on it...
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WEB BROWSER BUTTONS
If you look carefully at the top part of the screen, you will see lots of buttons.
Some of these buttons we will use at school, others we will not use. The buttons that we need to understand are:
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The BACK button lets you go back to the last page that you were looking at. |
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If you went back to a previous page, you can use the FORWARD button to return to this page. (The Back and Forward buttons allow you to move through sites that you have already visited.) |
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If you want to stop a web page loading, you can tell Internet Explorer to stop loading it by clicking on the STOP button. |
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If a web page doesn't load properly, or it is seems
to have stopped loading (and you are still waiting for things to appear),
press the REFRESH button. This will tell Internet Explorer to download
the page again.
This button is also useful when you are looking at a web page which changes regularly. Clicking this button will force Internet Explorer to download the latest copy of the page. |
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Clicking on the HOME button will take you to the web page which loads when Internet Explorer first starts. |
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Clicking this button will let you print the web page that you are looking at. |
