Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Lesson 1. Navigating Windows 2000 Professional
  • Lesson 2. Working with a Window
  • Lesson 3. Using Menus
  • Lesson 4. Using Windows 2000 Professional Help
  • Lesson 5. Using Dialog Boxes
  • Lesson 6. Working with Multiple Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 7. Copying, Moving, and Linking Between Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 8. Using My Computer
  • Lesson 9. Managing Files with My Computer
  • Lesson 10. Using WordPad
  • Lesson 11. Understanding File Properties and the Recycle Bin
  • Lesson 12. Printing
  • Lesson 13. Using My Network Places
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
  • Lesson 17. Using Internet Explorer 5
    • Starting Internet Explorer 5
    • Navigating the IE5 Window
    • The IE5 Toolbars
    • Navigating a Web Page
    • Reading URLs
    • Visiting a Web Site
    • Understanding Links
    • Understanding Caching
  • Lesson 18. Web Site and Document Searching
  • Lesson 19. Troubleshooting, Restarting, and Disaster Planning
  • Lesson 20. Customizing the Windows 2000 Environment

Visiting a Web Site

Now that you understand URLs, you're ready to take your first visit to a Web site other than your start page.

You need to have IE5 open, and you need to be connected to the Internet to visit a Web site. Then:

1. Place your cursor in the Address field on the toolbar. Click once, and the current address (which is probably your start page) will be highlighted. Type the URL for the site you wish to visit, such as:

   http://www.mcp.com

   You don't need to type HTTP—since it's the default protocol, IE5 will fill that in for you. This is the URL for Macmillan Publishing, USA. Your new text will replace the existing text.

   Tip

   Address Correctly! When typing addresses, it's important to use the exact letters, periods, symbols and capitalization you see in the examples. Typing the address incorrectly could result in failure to locate the Web site you are seeking.
2. Press the Enter key or the Go button next to the Address field. The Status bar will indicate the status of your search. It may say Finding site: http://www.mcp.com; then Opening page: http://www.mcp.com/index; then Done. When the status bar shows Done, the Web page at your requested site is finished loading.
3. You should now see the home page for Macmillan, if you used the URL in step 2. It's a big home page and doesn't fit within your screen, so use the scroll bars or Page Up or Page Down to examine this page. (See Figure 17.4.)
   

   Figure 17.4 A page at Macmillan's site, www.mcp.com. Web pages change all the time, sometimes daily.

Notice the highlighted text on this page? This is an example of hypertext. If you place your mouse on hypertext, you'll see your cursor change from a pointer to a hand and the address of the page to which the link refers will display on the status bar. A pop-up menu will also appear, displaying additional information about the link. Try it! Hold your mouse over hypertext. Remember: to activate a link and to jump to the associated page, you click on the hypertext.

After you've moved around a few pages, leave this Web site and go to another. To do that, simply type the address of the site you wish to visit in the Address box and press Enter. Here's an address to try:

nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/mission_page/ST_Voyager_1_page1.html

There you can see photos of Saturn as found in Figure 17.5. Actually, it's very likely that the page you are seeing will differ slightly than the one you see here. Web pages change all the time. New information is added and designs are updated; the links, text, and information may also change. But you can continue this little surf on your own. Click the underlined text to navigate or move around the site.

Figure 17.5 Learning about Saturn.

You'll also notice that if you hold your mouse over the graphics on this page, your cursor will change from a pointer to a hand, and the linked URL address will display. These graphics are acting as hyperlinks, even though they are not text. When you click on one of them, you'll be taken to the associated page.

After you've roamed around Saturn a little, you might want to stop by NASA's Spacelink site for educators, which includes the shuttle launch schedule at

spacelink.nasa.gov >

Figure 17.6 shows Spacelink's home page and also displays how your cursor will appear when you hold the pointer over a link.

Figure 17.6 Visiting Spacelink at spacelink.nasa.gov.

In thepreceding examples, you visited one commercial and two government Web sites, identified as such by their three-letter extensions: .com and .gov, respectively.

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