What is this section about?
This section will help you learn how to search for information on the world wide web...
The internet is a worldwide network of computers for sharing information. The computers are linked into a network using...
The WWW provides information in the form of text, pictures, graphics, sound, animation and video. That means it uses...
The first page of a website is called the home page. The home page will contain links to other pages on the site. The...
You are going to learn to search the WWW for information. There are three methods to do this:
Following links...
Here are the icons for the two common browsers:
Another browser which is used on the Mac is...
The first web page you see may be your organisation's home page. Web pages take a while to appear on your screen,...
Open up your internet browser and as you explore the WWW by clicking on links, try to find answers to these...
The web address of a home page looks something like this: www.bbc.co.uk
Let's look at what this address...
Web pages of organisations in the USA do not indicate the country at the end of the address. For example, www.msn.com...
You are now going to visit websites by entering web addresses. Do not spend a lot of time finding information in the...
Now try entering one of the following web addresses into the address box and press the Return key.
Note:...
A search engine is the name given to a particular type of program which can search the WWW looking for pages that match...
Decide what information you want to find. It may be about cheap holidays, or healthy diets, or a topic you read in a...
In this exercise we will use the Google search engine, www.google.co.uk.
Open up your browser.
Enter...
You should now know how to search the WWW for information by:
clicking on links within web pages
entering web page...
