The following are screen icons that you need to know and understand
to be able to search the Internet with ease.
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Internet Explorer |
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Netscape |
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Back and Forward buttons
With these you move between the web pages you have already
viewed. It's like a book's pages allowing you to relook
at what you have seen. |
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Stop button
This button is displayed while a page is busy loading.
The moment the page has finished loading it will become
inactive (light grey colour). Use the "Stop" button when
you clicked to open (download) a page, but want to stop
it from opening. You might do this when the page takes
to long to open. |
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Reload or Refresh buttons
Use this button to reload or refresh the page. This button
will only be displayed when the page has finished loading.
It is used to see if the page has changed since you last
saw it |
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Home button
When you click on this icon it will take you back to your
home page, e.g. the home page of your technikon, university
or even your Library web site, depending on what Home
page has been set for your browser |
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Search button
When you click on this icon you will be able to start
your search on the Internet. This button will take you
to a list of search engines you can make use of, e.g.
Google, Alta vista, Infoseek, etc. |
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Print button
To print the page that is displaying on your computer
monitor, you just click on the Print icon. |
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Favourates
When you click on this button you are marking this page in your list of favorites like a bookmark for a book, which you can easily access again when you need to. |
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E-mail
When you click on this option you will be able to e-mail this link to yourself or somone else. |
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