World Wide Web Hands-On 2

Module W11h

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1. How to use this Document

This is designed to work best after you have read through World Wide Web Tricks and Tips (Module W10c). If you get confused here, please go back there for help first.

This is an interactive module: you read background and instructions on the computer, and you interact with the computer. Many people find it helpful to print it, but that's not necessary. It has lines of text for you to copy-and-paste; it has references to other instruction documents; in short, it's part of the action with Netscape.

So if you're viewing this on paper, you'll need to get to a copy of Netscape that you can use. Here's the URL (Universal Resource Locator) where this document is stored:
http://www.wccnet.org/dept/cis/mod/w11h.htm
One way to get to it, once you've started Netscape, is to pull down the File menu and choose OpenPage. Then type in the entire address shown here. (There is an easier way, once you've got the URL on the screen...we'll try that next!)

There are some sections giving you general information about how to do something. These are marked with the reading eye Read Me
Things for you to do are marked with either a hammer Hammer (to show that you'll have to keep "hammering away at it") or with scissors Scissors (when you need to "cut-and-paste").

2. Using Copy-and-Paste

(Do do this, you'll have to be viewing this document in Netscape - that's Step 1!)

2a. Copy-and-Paste to get to a Web page

Hammer We want to start by moving to the next part of this module, which is a separate file. Here's how...
  1. With your mouse, move the pointer to the beginning of the line with the URL of the Tricks and Tips document. (It's in bold just below the next paragraph.) (A URL, Universal Resource Locator, is an Internet resource address.)
  2. Hold down the mouse button and "drag" the pointer to the other end of the line. It should get a blue background, and if you've done it carefully, nothing else but the URL should be blue. (If something else has turned blue, try again! It may take a few tries.) Here is the URL: Scissors
http://www.wccnet.org/dept/cis/mod/w11h_2b.htm
  1. Hold down the Control key (marked Ctrl) or on the Macintosh, the Command key (marked with an Apple) and tap the C key. Let go of both keys. This is the Copy command, usually written <Ctrl>C. It places a copy of whatever is highlighted into a part of the computer's memory called the "Clipboard." From there, we'll bring it out into another place...
  2. Move your mouse-pointer to the long white window called Location or Go To. It's above the main viewing area of the Netscape window, and it has the URL or file name of whatever you're looking at. Right now it should have the URL of this document.
  3. Click in the Location window: it should be highlighted (usually in blue).
  4. Hold the Control key (Command key on the Mac) and press the V key: <Ctrl>V
  5. The original URL should be replaced by whatever you highlighted in the document - hopefully, the URL of module W11h_2b!
  6. Press the <Enter> key. This is the signal to Netscape that you want it to retrieve that file.
  7. Watch at the lower edge of the screen as Netscape provides progress reports. When it is done, the next file of this module should replace this one. We'll continue the insructions there...

4. Saving Addresses

When you're doing research using the Web, it makes a lot of sense to be able to save the addresses of the Web sites where you found the best information. There are several ways to do that, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. For this exercise, we will use the copy-and-paste method. It is described in two sections here: one for Windows 95, the other for Macintosh computers.
 

Read Me Windows 95: Copy and Paste 

Here's how we use the copy-and-paste method for starting an address list using any browser under Windows 95.
  1. With your mouse-pointer, click in the Location box in the control panel area of the browser's window. This should highlight the URL (usually it turns blue).
  2. Copy the URL to the system "clipboard". Here are two ways to do it:
    • Using the menus: from the Edit menu, select Copy
    • Shortcut key: While holding down the <Ctrl> key, tap C (for Copy).
  3. Open a text or word-processing file. To start a new text file in Windows 95:
    • Click the Start button to see Windows 95's start menu.
    • Select Run on the start menu
    • In the Run window, type:
    • notepad
    • and press the <Enter> key or click on the OK button. In a moment, a "notepad" should open up.
  4. For this exercise: make sure you have a title and some identification in the text document - for example,

    5. Sarah Strong, CIS 100 sec.99 W11h
    and press the <Enter> key a couple of times to give yourself some room
  5. Paste in the URL that you copied from the browser. Again, there are two ways:
    • Using the Edit menu, select Paste
    • Using the keyboard, hold down the <Ctrl> key and tap V
  6. Save the file using the File menu's Save or Save As options. Make sure the file is saved on your diskette, rather than on the hard drive of a lab computer.

Read Me Macintosh: Copy and Paste 

Here's how we use the copy-and-paste method for starting an address list using Netscape on the Mac.
  1. With your mouse-pointer, click in the Location box in the control panel area of the browser's window. This should highlight the URL.
  2. Copy the URL to the system "clipboard". Here are two ways to do it:
    1. Using the menus: from the Edit menu, select Copy
    2. Shortcut key: While holding down the <Command> key, tap C (for Copy).
  3. Open a text or word-processing file. To start a new text file on the Mac:
    1. Launch a ord processing program such as Claris Works, MS Works, MS Word, etc. (There are several ways to do this, including icons on the desktop, a launcher, or the Apple menu.)
    2. Create a blank word processing document if the program doesn't do it automatically.
  4. For this exercise: make sure you have a title and some identification in the text document - for example,

    5. Sarah Strong, CIS 100 sec.99 W11h
    and press the <Return> key a couple of times to give yourself some room
  5. Paste in the URL that you copied from the browser. Again, there are two ways:
    1. Using the Edit menu, select Paste
    2. Using the keyboard, hold down the <Command> key and tap V
  6. Save the file using the File menu's Save or Save As options. Make sure the file is saved on your diskette, rather than on the hard drive of a lab computer.

Now: Here's what to do for credit! Hammer

  1. Scissors Save the address of this document (module W11h) in your note file. If you left your note file open, you should be able to get to it either by clicking on a part of its window, or (if you're running Windows) clicking its button Notepad button on the taskbar,usually at the bottom of the screen. You can flip back and forth using these taskbar buttons. Netscape's taskbar button looks something like this:  but the words depend on what Web page you're viewing.
  2.  Visit each of these locations listed below by using the copy-and-paste technique; save the address of each of them; return to this page using either the Back button or the Go menu. Caution: some of these addresses may not be valid. Be sure to visit each address to verify that it really works! If an address doesn't, do not paste it into your note file - just move on to try the next address.

    3. Scissors
  3.  Save your note file on the diskette, but don't close it or exit form it - you'll be adding more to it later!

5. Saving Objects on your Disk Hammer

Under the File menu, Netscape provides a New option. Selecting "Navigator Window" on the sub-menu allows you to open another Web site. Do this, and leaving one Netscape window open with these directions, and use the other window for doing things.
  1. Use Cut-and-Paste to go to the informational "Tricks and Tips" module Scissors

    2. http://www.wccnet.org/dept/cis/mod/w10c.htm
  2. From the File menu select SaveAs.
  3. Make sure the Drive window has the name of the drive with your disk (A: or B:)
  4. Click OK to save the file.
  5. Close the file using the File...Close menu option.

6. Opening Local Files Hammer

Now you have saved a file on your disk, you should be able to open in on your disk as well..
  1. Use the File...OpenPage menu
  2. At the right-hand end of the Open Page dialog box, click Choose File
  3. Near the top of the Open dialog box, select the drive with your disk.
  4. In a moment, you should see the files listed. One file should be w10c.htm, the file you saved on the previous step.
  5. Double-click on w10c.htm (or click once and click on the Open button). In a few moments, it should re-appear on your screen.

7. Printing, and Printing Options Hammer

  1. Go to the "Tricks and Tips" module (W10c) which you opened in Step 6.
  2. Do a Print Setup
  3. Make sure the margins are set to 0.5 inches
  4. Make sure all the header and footer options are turned on
  5. Do a Print Preview
  6. Print the document. Keep it for future reference.

8. Going Places...for credit! Hammer

Here are some cool places to go. At each one you get to successfully, save its address. Stay and explore them for a while if you like; then return using either the Back button or the Go menu... (If you can't get to them, don't save their addresses! Just go on to the next address.) Scissors
 

9. More about Saving Addresses Read Me

For a full discussion of ways to save Web addresses, see module W08c (http://www.wccnet.org/dept/cis/mod/w08c.htm).

10. Finishing Up Hammer

Audience:

This is for people who are familiar with World Wide Web browsers and want to try some of the "tricks and tips" discussed in Module W10c, "World Wide Web Tricks and Tips." This version of the module is focused on Netscape NavigatorTM.

Objectives

When you successfully complete this lesson, you will be able to... Return to Contents of this document

About this document...

Module W11h: World Wide Web Hands-On 2

Note that his document is composed of two files: W11h.htm, amd W11h_2b.htm
Author:
Laurence J. Krieg
Institution:
Department of Computer Information Systems, Washtenaw Community College
Date:
Original: 4 April 1996
This revision: Monday, 31-Aug-2009 11:48:00 EDT
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