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