Terms you should know: The World Wide Web: A.K.A. WWW or the web is a collection of documents called web pages stored on computers around the world. You can access these documents as long as you have a computer with Internet access, and a web browser. You are using your web browser to view this information right now. You can browse, search, or even publish your own pages to the World Wide Web. URL: A URL or uniform resource locator is the address of a computer or document on the Internet. All URLs consists of a protocol followed by a colon (:) and two forward slashes (//). For example, http://www.t-one.net is a URL. The "http" is a protocol (hypertext transfer protocol) and is followed by the colon and two slashes. The last part is the domain name, which in this case is t-one.net. Link: A link, which is short for "hyperlink", can take you to a different spot within the current page or to a totally different website. Links can be in the form of a button or text. When you put your mouse cursor over a link, it will turn into a hand. Clicking on the link will take you somewhere else. Most text links are a contrasting color, (by default, underlined in blue), which helps the viewer tell that it is a link. If you have already visited the web page the link is pointing to the link will normally be a different color. Browsing: Browsing the Internet is a lot like browsing in a store. While in the store you can plan your shopping by going from one aisle to another, or go from one department to another on the other side of the store and back again. However its much easier on the Internet as you are only a mouse click away from going somewhere else. It's even easier yet to visit a page you just left by clicking on the browsers back button. Web Browsers
Favorites/Bookmarks
Typing in a URL
Search Quite often you won't know the exact address of a web page that you wish to visit. When this is the case going through a search engine will help you to find what you are looking for. If you are looking for a 1965 Volkswagon for example you can go to a search engine and type in 1965 Volkswagon and the search engine will then look for sites that have something to do with your request. T-One has a web page set up to assist you in searching the web. From our search page you can choose from several search engines all on one page. A great place to start!! Searching is not a difficult task. All you need to do is enter the criteria for your search and click on the search button. It is important to remember that just because one search engine doesn't return the results you are looking for another may. If you don't find what you're looking for in one search engine try another. After awhile you will more than likely develop a favorite search engine.
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On the left hand side of the graphical menu bar you will see the back button. As stated earlier, this button will take you back to a previously visited web page. Clicking on this button once will take you back one page, two clicks will take you back two pages, etc. If you use your right mouse button and click on the back button it will give you a list of several pages that you can then click on with your left button. Clicking on one of these choices will then take you to that page.
If you have used the back button, clicking on the forward button will take you to the next page you visited. Think of the back and forward buttons as you would fast forward and rewing on your vcr. The forward button works just like the back button, but in reverse order. Right clicking on the forward button will give you a list of pages in that direction.
Sometimes people design web pages that take an awfully long time to download because of pictures on the page, music files, movies, or other large files that must be downloaded before the page can display. If you are at a web page and don't wish to stay because the site is taking too long to download, or because it isn't what you expected, you can click on the stop button. This will cause the downloading of the web page to stop right where it is.
The print button works as you would expect. Clicking on it will print the current web page. If you wish to have a 'hard copy' of the web page for your records, or to show someone else you can print the web page.
Home sweet home. Clicking on the home button will take you to your home page. If you used the T-One setup cd your home page will be our main web page.
Clicking on Reload or Refresh will cause the browser to ask the web page server to send the page again. There are several reasons you may want to do this. One of them might be if you are at a web page and it doesn't complete the transfer properly. Clicking on refresh will attempt to finish the transfer. Also depending on the settings of your browser the page may have been updated since your last visit but since you're been there before your browser reads it from its cache instead of taking the time to download it again.
