To look at pages on the World Wide Web, you need to have a browser installed on your computer.
Web Browsers The two most popular ones are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Netscape Navigator can be bought at any computer store (often as part of the package Netscape Communicator, which gives you e-mail capabilities as well).
Internet Explorer used to come as part of any Microsoft software package. Both can be downloaded from the web.
Sites to look at for copies of these browsers are:
http://www.tucows.com http://home.netscape.com http://www.microsoft.com. Browsing
Double click on the icon or go through the Start menu to start your browser. A screen like the one below will appear.Both browsers have a menu bar, a tool bar and a bar with a long white box in it, labelled Netsite or Address. This box will contain the address of the page you are currently looking at.
If you know the address of a web site you want to look at, type it in here and press ENTER.
Your browser will show you the web page at the address you typed in.
Moving Around the Web
To move from page to page on the web, simply click on the link to the page you want to move to.Links are underlined text or bordered pictures.
When you rest you mouse on a link, a message should appear giving the address that the link is to.
Your browser also has two buttons labelled Forward and Back.
Click the Back button to go back to the last page you looked at.
Click it again to go back another page.
Click the Forward button to move forwards until you come to the last page you looked at.
Home Pages
This is the main web page for a person/charity/business etc.When you open your browser, it will start by loading a home page.
Home pages contain links to other information about the company/person/charity etc.
Clicking on the Home button on the toolbar will return you to your browser's home page.
Re-Loading Pages
If a page gets garbled on the way to your computer screen, reload it by pressing the Refresh or Reload button.You can also use these buttons to load a page that you interrupted (by clicking the Stop button).