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Starting Internet explorer
The Internet explorer is the application that displays the web pages from
the Internet. Like all windows programs, the Internet explorer can be started in
many ways:
Click the internet explorer icon on the desktop window
Start > All programs > internet explorer
Title bar : appears at the top of the screen contains the title of current web
page or file which is on display in internet explorer
Address bar: display the page address (URL) for the current web site. And
The Address Box allows you to go directly to a site on the Internet.
Menu bar: has several sub-menus that you can use to control the way
internet explorer works
Tool bar: it is a group of buttons you can click to run frequently.
Back: Takes you to the last page you were viewing
Forward: displays the page you were viewing before you went
Back to the current page.
Stop: cancel the attempt to connect to a page or document.
Refresh: reloads a fresh copy of the current page you are
viewing.
Home: return to the designated home page that was setup as
the default Start-up page for Internet explorer.
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Display the list of Favorites (same as Favorites Menu).
Open your selected email program.
Prints the document you are currently viewing.
Figure (1) the contents of browser window
Web Address
Every page has its own unique address, known as uniform resource location
URL as shown in figure (2) that is made up of three components:
1. http: hypertext transfer protocol is used to access the Internet that
allows text with links to be transmitted from computer to computer.
2. WWW( World Wide Web): Is currently one of the most advanced
and fastest growing information systems developed on the internet
provides access to multimedia internet resources with any
combination of text, audio video and other graphics across networks
and computers worldwide.
3. Domain name: location or area where the pages are stored.
4. Top level domain: consist of two parts
The first part contains a three letters code of a URL that indicates
whether the address is a business (.com), a university (.edu) and so
on. See the following table:
Address bar
Title bar
Menu bar
Tool bar
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Top level domain
name
Extension
الوصف
commercial
.com
شبكة تجارية
organization
.org
منظمة تتبع إحدى المنظمات الدولية
Network
.net
شبكة أو مجموعة تعنى باختصاص
معين
Government
.gov
حكومة
Military
.mil
هيئة تتبع إحدى الجهات:ةيركسع
العسكرية
educational
.edu
مؤسسة تعليمية
The second part contains a tow letters that indicates to the country
name.
Protocol
Domain name
Top level domain
Figure (2) an exercise to describe the contents of the web page address
Accessing a Web site by typing its address
Most browsers allow you to access a web site directly by typing its web
address (URL) is the standard addressing system used to locate resources on the
Internet. To access a web site:
1. Click the address box, so that the current address is highlighted.
2. Type the new address.
3. Press the enter key, or click on GO button.
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Changing the start page
Your start page is the first web page you will see every time you start the
Internet explorer. So it is a good idea to choose a page that contains
information that is important to you.
Setting a new start page of your choice:
1. Open Internet explorer.
2. Select Internet options from tools menu.
3. Click the General tab as shown
in the right figure.
4. Type the address of the wanted Start page in the address box.
5. Click use current button.
6. Click Apply.
7. Click OK.
Once you have changed your start page, you can quickly view it by clicking
the start page button (labeled “Home”) on the standard tool bar.
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Turning off graphics
When you turn off graphics, animations and so on, pages
with text only will download faster.
1. Click advanced tab in the Internet options window.
Tools bar Internet options advanced
2. Click to remove the tick from the following check boxes:
Play
animation,
play
sound, play videos, shows
pictures.
3. Click Apply.
4. Click Ok.
Saving Web Address
Internet explorer allows you to easily add a menu item for any page you
are visiting. Once the page’s address is stored, you can quickly go back to the
site at any time by choosing it from the Favorites Menu.
To add a page to your Favorites Menu:
1. Make sure that the address of the page you want to save is displayed.
2. Click on the Favorite button on the tool bar, the favorite panel appears at
the left of the browser window.
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3. Click on the Add to favorite button at the top of the favorite panel.
4. Add favorite window opens as in right figure. Edit the name of the page in
the name box.
5. You can save the address in an existing folder. All favorite folders appear in
the Create In box. As in figure (2).
6. To make any folder, click on the new folder button.
7. Click on the Add button to close add favorite window.
8. Click on X of the favorite panel to close it.
Figure (2) add favorite box
Organizing Favorites
By organizing your URL links in the favorite folder, you can limit the
length of the favorite’s pull-down menu and make it easier to find the URL to the
web site you want to visit.
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1. Click on the favorite button on the menu bar, Then click on
the organize favorites. The organize favorites window opens as
in figure (3).
2. Click the favorites (name of page) or a folder to select it
3. Click on move to folder, the browse for folder window opens as shown
in figure (3)
4. Click on the folder to which you want the selected item to be moved. Or
make new folder to save the favorite page in it.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Close.
Figure (3) organize favorite
Saving Web Pages
You can save the text in a web page to a disk file. You can modify it with
any word processing program. To save a web page for future use, do the
following:
1. Make sure that the
page you want to
save is displayed
on the browser.
2. Select Save As
from the File
menu, Save Web
Page window
appears.
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3. Select the location in which you want to save the page from
the Save in box.
4. Select the type or format in which you want to save the page from Save As
Type list:
Web page complete: to save the whole page but the images are stored in
to different folder.
Web archive for E-mail: save the whole page in one file to be sent by E-
mail.
Html: to save the text only.
Text file: to save the page as plain text.
5. Click on the Save button.
Downloading Files from a Web Page
To download text file, image file, sound file, video file, and software
from a web page to a location on a drive, do the following:
1. Right click on the hyperlink, and from the submenu select Save Target
As.
2. Specify the location where you want to save the file. Then click Save.
When you use Internet Explorer to download a file from the Internet, you
are usually asked where you want to store the file. If you don't specify where
you want the file to be stored, Internet Explorer will normally try to put a
file in the most appropriate place. For example, documents and web pages
are normally saved to the Documents folder, music files to the Music folder,
and images and graphics are saved to the Pictures folder. Programs and
miscellaneous downloads are also sometimes saved to the Downloads
folder
.