Chapter 8
The World Wide Web (WWW)

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Using the Mozilla web browser

Configuring the Mozilla web browser

Finding information on the WWW

WWW

The World Wide Web

An interlinked network of systems (web servers)

Offers multimedia services and information

Users access and use these services using a web browser software

The Mozilla web browser

http://www.mozilla.org

Mozilla

Integrated web browser, email/news client, web page composer

Mozilla web browser – Navigator

Main Menu --> Internet --> Mozilla Web Browser

Mozilla Navigator

navigation toolbar

menu bar

side bar

display panel

Navigator Configuration

Edit --> Preferences --> Navigator

Home page location

History - # days to keep

Languages – language to display web pages

Internet Search – search engine to use

Finding Information on WWW

Internet a treasure house of information

Website known/available - easy

If not - where and how to look?

Use:

web portals

search engines

Web Portal

A website that acts as an gateway for providing information about a subject area or group of subjects

Useful starting place if you do not know where and how to go and look for information about a specific topic or subject

Many ISPs provide portal services for subscribers

Other well known portals:

www.yahoo.com

www.netscape.com

www.msn.com

Web Portal - ISP

Web Portal - General

Search Engines

Allows query on specific subject

Retrieve links to web pages and resources which contain information about the subject

Popular search engines available are:

Google (www.google.com)

Altavista (www.altavista.com)

Lycos (www.lycos.com)

Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)

Basic Search

Search for “pain in foot”

Too many general links to pains in foot returned

Keywords too general

Basic Search

Search for “pain in forefoot”

More specific links related to pain in forefoot returned

May still be too general

If known, key in the foot disorder name

Basic Specific Search

Search for “freiberg disease”

Links related to forefoot pain disorder Freiberg's Disease returned only

End of Chapter 8

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