Ideas and portions of the text presented below, have been taken from the Netscape Handbook Copyright 1994-1996 Netscape Communication Corporation.

• What sections can I skip over?
• What will I learn in this Section?
• A starting point.
• What is on each page?

What sections can I skip over?

If you are experienced with the Internet and World Wide Web browsers, consider going BACK . There is little, if any thing that you should not already know.

If you are truly a first time user, or new to World Wide Web browsers, you might want to proceed directly to the What will I learn in this Introduction section. A brief minute of reading the following sections will make your first experience a pleasant one.

What will I learn in this Section?

A starting point.

The first page you saw is your current home. An overview of the page layout will be presented below. Another title might be: Quick, how do I get started?

What is on each page? (the elements)

Highlighted words, toolbar buttons, pull-down menu items, progress bar, and title bar.

A Starting Point (Jump Starting!)

Netscape is like other windows applications. The use of the mouse to click on icons; the use of toolbar buttons, slide bars, and menus combine to makes your exploration of the presented material easy and more productive.

The first page you saw is your current home. You can bring other pages to your screen by clicking on any highlighted words (colored and/or underlined) or highlighted graphic (images with colored borders) in the content area of a page. Highlighted words and graphics are links to other pages. (That is how you got here!)

Several buttons in the toolbar and items in the menu bar are also links to pages. For example, pressing the BACK button in the toolbar or choosing the Go/Back menu item brings to your screen to the previous page.

Try using ( clicking the toolbar buttons) BACK and FORWARD to move back and forth between pages to get the feel for these functions.

What is on each page?

Start at the top of the Netscape window, we will find the following:

Title Bar

The title of the section of the presentation you are in. This is informational only; nothing can be done with this area.

Menu Bar

Clicking on one of the menu names will " pop-up " a list of options available under this menu. Little else can be said. The more experienced user will be able to take advantage of these features.

Toolbar Buttons

The toolbar icons (buttons) allows the user to activate the most commonly used tasks. At any given time some (or all) of the icons may be highlighted (if the function is available for use) or not highlighted (if the function can not be performed). Functions that are available include:

BACK revisit previous page

FORWARD go to next page (after BACK)

PRINT print the contents of the current page

FIND search for word(s) and direction of search

STOP if transfer is in progress

Others of little value for most users

Location

Shows which file is loaded. (Of no real interest to most users.)

Content Area

The content area (the large middle section of the window) displays a page of presented material. The presented material may be composed of:

Text (not highlighted)

Words or phases that are Colored and/or underlined are links to bring new pages to your screen. When you click on the highlighted text, you are requesting the transfer. When you select text in a field, the selection is highlighted (by default, in a different color than the colors use for links). This shows you that you have been there before. However, you may select the word or phases as many times as you wish.

Pictures

Highlighted Graphic (images with colored borders). Some times these images are called icons. The icon would be for: GO TO.

Status Indicator and Progress Bar

The status indicator (the company logo in the upper right hand corner) animates when a transfer is in progress.

The progress bar (lower left corner) animates to show the progress of the current operation. The bar shows the percentage done of document layout as a page loads and the percentage of kilobytes loaded as an external image loads.

Other Window Features

Vertical and horizontal scroll bars may be used to view pages larger than the screen area.

Because Netscape is a windows application and if you are an experienced user, then you may go to the lower left and/or right corner and hold the mouse button down and drag the corner to expand the Netscape window. The text will readjust to fit the expanded or smaller window.

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