The Internet for BeginnersSection Two of Four
From the Richard Sugden Library
Spencer, MAJillian M. Parsons
Question to Class
Add a date to the schedule to include my.yahoo.com?
April 24th?
my.yahoo.com presentation• The Calendar• Bookmarks• The Briefcase• Formatting Layout, Color and Design,
and Content
Section Two: Today’s Presentation
Section Two• Establishing Home• Websites / Web Pages• The Web Address (URL)
Establishing home
Changing your Default Home Page
• Go to the menu bar and select Tools
• Drop down and select Internet Options
• You will see this page:
Changing your default Home Page
Changing your default Home Page
• Type in the homepage you choose into the address bar, highlighted in yellow
• Your homepage can be any web page out there.
• If you change your mind you can come back and change it again.
Changing your default Home Page
• Once you have typed in the URL, click Apply, and then OK
Websites / Web Pages
Scroll Bar• The areas highlighted in yellow
are scroll bars:
Scroll Bar
• To scroll up and down, click and drag on the slider.
Hyperlinks• A hyperlink is either a URL, a
word or set of words, usually underlined and in a contrasting color from the rest of the text. Ex. Click Here
• When you click on a link you are connected to another website.
• You can return to where you were by using the back button.
The Web Address (URL)
What is a URL?• URL stands for Uniform
Resource Locator • A URL is also called a web
address. • If you know the web address,
you can re-frequent any page you find on the Internet.
The URL and the Address Bar
•The address highlighted above in the Address Bar is the same as the typing:
http://my.yahoo.com
Anatomy of a URLhttp://my.yahoo.com andhttp:// www. learnthenet.com
/english/ start.htmare both examples of web addresses /
URLs.
The following explanation is based on URL #2 because it is longer and has more components.
Anatomy of a URL
http:// www. learnthenet.com /english/ start.htm
http://
• Short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, this indicates a hypertext document or directory.
Anatomy of a URL
http:// www. learnthenet.com /english/ start.htm
www.
This indicates a page on the World Wide Web. (Sometimes "www" is missing.)
Anatomy of a URL
http:// www. learnthenet.com /english/ start.htm
learnthenet.com/
• Called the domain name, it often tells you the name of a company, university, or organization. It can also tell you the country of origin.
Anatomy of a URL
http:// www. learnthenet.com /english/ start.htm
www.learnthenet.com/
• Together, these indicate the web server name.
Anatomy of a URL
http:// www. learnthenet.com /english/ start.htm
english/
• This is directory or folder on the web server that contains a group of related web pages within the website.
Anatomy of a URL
http:// www. learnthenet.com /english/ start.htm
start.htm • This is a web page inside the folder. (The same file can be named
start.html) A URL doesn't always include the name
of the web page.
Summary
Conclusion