Absolute web beginners' guide |
This is a web page. You can move down it by clicking the small arrow on the bottom right hand side. The arrow for moving up the page is at the top on the right. Between the arrows is a bar for moving up and down the page. This is called the scroll bar. The scroll bar is part of your browser. Please try using the arrows or scroll bar now to move down to the next section. |
Your browser is probably
Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Does it say Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer at the top of the screen? Browsers are computer programs that let you read the pages that people have written on the world wide web. At the moment, you are reading a page on Andrew Roberts' site on the web.
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On this site, if you click underlined or coloured words you will move to somewhere else. You did this to get here. If you click these underlined and coloured words you will to go the bottom of the page. Somewhere you click to move to another page or elsewhere on the same page is called a link Sometimes, clicking on small pictures or symbols will take you somewhere else. If you click the arrow symbol below, it will take you to the top of the page
Coloured words, underlined words, pictures and symbols that take you somewhere else are all called links. However, a web page can have coloured words and underlined words and pictures that are not links - You just click to find out. On this website all underlined or coloured words (but not all pictures) should be links.
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NOW THAT YOU KNOW HOW TO MOVE ABOUT A WEB PAGE, HOW TO
MOVE FROM PAGE TO PAGE AND HOW TO FIND AND REMEMBER PAGES:
CLICK HERE FOR A CHOICE OF THINGS TO DO NEXT
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