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Navigating a Website
This page is for those who like some assistance with finding their way around a
website (it's called navigating):
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BROWSERS:
Websites
are viewed (or visited) by using a browser. Browsers are computer software
programs specifically designed for
"surfing" or exploring the Internet. There are many browsers but Microsoft Explorer® or
Netscape® are used by the majority of visitors to this website. Most
websites will function
properly only with browser versions later than 3.0. These will support shared
borders and graphics. This website works best with MS Explorer®.
Not all features may work properly on other browsers.
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SUPPLEMENTAL
SOFTWARE: Some
features offered by websites may require the appropriate additional software on your
computer, for example, like Adobe© to read text in PDF. If not on your
computer, have someone help you to download it from the Internet, often
for free, or buy it
at a software store.
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THE
HOME PAGE: A website comprises a
"Home Page", that's the one that shows up first when visit a
website like AussieWinlink. The Home Page has "links".
These are words or phrases that are underlined or shown in a different color, for example: Homepage.
Sometimes links are in graphics, like pictures. By moving your computer mouse
(it's called "point") the cursor on link and clicking the left button of your mouse
once (called "click"), the chosen page
will appear. It's therefore called "Point and Click".
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LINKS:
You can easily go deeper into any website
by following successive links. You can also quickly backtrack. For
example, pointing and clicking on "Up" in a menu on the top or bottom of a page, will take
you back to the next higher level and, likewise, clicking on
"Home" will take you back to the Home Page.
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SCROLLING:
Most
web pages contain more text than can be displayed on a single computer screen.
To read the full text, place your cursor on the "down" button on the
scrolling bar at the extreme right of the page. By clicking repeatedly on the
down button, the text will scroll up. The scroll the text down again, click on the "up"
button on the scroll bar. Some computer mice have a small rotating wheel in the
middle for scrolling up and down.
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BACK
TRACKING: Some links will take you to another website located
elsewhere on the
Internet. To return to the website where you started, like AussieWinlink, click the
"Back" button on your browser. It is normally
shown near the top left hand corner on the browser.
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ACCESS
SPEED: Depending on the speed of
your computer, modem and the connection speed to your Internet Service Provider
(ISP) it might take a little while before the requested "Page" or
"website" loads and becomes viewable on your screen.To test this,
"point and click" now on the
following link to return to the Home Page> Homepage.
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