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Navigating the Web
You have three ways to move among web pages:
Type a web address (URL) (Figure 13.2 ).
Figure 13.2. The Address bar displays the address (URL) of the current web page. Type a new address to go to a different page.
Click a navigation button (Figure 13.3 ).
Figure 13.3. The Standard Buttons toolbar's navigation buttons.
Click a
link, or
hyperlink (Figure 13.4 ).
Figure 13.4. Links take you to a new web page (or another place on the same page).
Using Windows Explorer Toolbars" in Chapter 5.
To visit a page on a particular site, go to the site's home page; then use
the site's search and navigation tools to find your target.
Table 13.1 lists a few sites to get you started.
If an error message ("Cannot find server" or "The page cannot be displayed") appears instead of a web page, you may have mistyped the URL, or the web page may have been moved or removed.
The status bar shows IE's progress ("Opening page..." or "Done") and displays the target URL of any link that you point to. If the status bar is hidden, choose View > Status Bar.
While the IE logo (top right) is waving or spinning, your PC is downloading a web page.
Auctions | www.ebay.com |
City guides | www.citysearch.com |
Classifieds | www.craigslist.org |
Dating | www.match.com |
Encyclopedia | www.wikipedia.org |
Geek news | www.slashdot.org |
Great books | www.bartleby.com |
Internet security | www.cert.org |
Jobs | www.monster.com |
Legal | www.nolo.com |
Movie reviews | www.rottentomatoes.com |
Search | www.google.com |
Shareware | www.download.com |
Shopping | www.amazon.com |
Tech terms | www.webopedia.com |
Travel | www.orbitz.com |
U.S. government | www.firstgov.gov |
Weather | www.weather.gov |
Web design | www.useit.com |
To visit a web page by typing a URL:
1. | Click the Address bar (or press Alt+D). |
2. | Type or paste the URL; then press Enter (or click Go). |
Tips
URLsA URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a case-insensitive address that identifies a web page uniquely. The URL for Microsoft's home page, for example, is http://www.microsoft.com. The transmission standard for all web pages is http://, so you don't type it (IE fills it in for you). The rest of the address specifies the web server and the web page's location on it. Some URLs don't need the www., and others require additional dot-separated elements. The server name's last part (called the top-level domain, or TLD ) tells you about the web site's owner or country. .com is a business, .gov is a government, .edu is a school, and .org is a not-for-profit organization, for example. .uk is a United Kingdom site; .ca is a Canadian site, and so on. For a list of TLDs, see www.iana.org/domain-names. Like your own documents, web-page files are organized in folder trees on the server, so a long URL (www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/support, for example) works like a pathname. Complicated URLs that contain ?, =, and & symbols often are pages created on-the-fly in response to a query. Note that URLs use forward slashes, not backslashes as in Windows pathnames. By the way, articulate each letter: URL . Don't say earl. |
To visit a web page via navigation buttons or links:
Click a link on a web page.
or
Click a link in an email message or document.
or
To revisit the page that you were just on, click Back on the toolbar (or press Backspace or Alt+left arrow) (Figure 13.5 ).
Figure 13.5. Click the Back button's small triangle to reveal a menu that lets you jump back several pages. The Forward button has a similar menu.
or
After you've clicked Back, click Forward on the toolbar (or press Alt+right arrow) to return to the page you were on when you clicked Back.
or
To return to a page you've visited in the past few weeks, click History on the toolbar (or press Ctrl+H); then click a link on the History bar (Figure 13.6 ).Figure 13.6. The History bar is an organized list of pages that you've visited recently. Click a time-period icon to list the web sites visited during that period; then click a web-site icon to view each page visited within that site. To sort the sites, click the View button (at top) and choose By Date, By Site, By Most Visited, or By Order Visited Today.
or
To go to a bookmarked page, choose it from the Favorites menu (see "Bookmarking Pages" later in this chapter).
Tips
 |  To stop downloading a page, click Stop on the toolbar (or press Esc). To reload a stale or incomplete page, click Refresh on the toolbar (or press F5). But Refresh decides for itself what and what not to fetch from the web server; Ctrl+Refresh forces a reload of everything and may bring you newer content.To change the number of days that pages are saved in the History list, choose Tools > Internet Options > General tab > History section (Figure 13.7 ). Figure 13.7. If you don't want people peeking at the sites you've visited, click Clear History; then set Days to Keep Pages in History to zero, thus covering your tracks and disabling the History feature. You can move around a web page by using scroll bars, but it's faster to use keyboard shortcuts or the mouse wheel. Almost all web scrolling is up/down; some poorly designed pages or large images will make you scroll left/right. To move around a web page: To scroll down or up incrementally (or line by line), press the down- or up-arrow key or spin the mouse wheel. or To scroll up or down by a window, press Page Up or Page Down. or To scroll to the beginning or end, press Home or End. or To move the cursor forward or back through web-page items, the Address bar, and the Explorer bar, press Tab or Shift+Tab. If a link is highlighted, press Enter to activate it. |
