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Navigating the web

Why are some words underscored?

How do I know where to click?

What if there is no back button to click?

Printing on the web, what are the problems?

Understanding the size of the page you are browsing

Email the web master if your question wasn't answered

 

Why are some words underscored?
A web page should not be made with words that are underscored by the webmaster, however not all webmasters follow this rule. You can be assured on the Region 24 web page if a word is underlined, it is a link that you can click on & it should take you to a page you expected to see. The reason for this is because the industry standard is that underscored words are links to other pages or URL's. The underscored words {which are usually blue} give you the hint of where you may go by clicking on an underscored word. Below is an example:Region 24 main page
After you clicked on a link it usually turns purple. Purple indicates you have already clicked on that link.


How do I know where to click?
On underscored words, or sometimes a picture of something, which is also called an icon. Below is an example. You could also click HERE


What if there is no back button to click?
If there is no back button usually you can use the back button on your browser. Some web pages open up another browser window, therefore the back button is grey, meaning you can not click back on your browser to return. Determine if an additional window has opened up. If so you will need to close the window to return to the last page you were on.


Printing on the web, what are the problems?
When you print a page off the web from your browser you may get more than you thought you were getting. For example: If you wanted to print this information topic & you printed it from your browser, you will get the whole page, which is all the topics under "Navigating the Web". This is because all of the information for "Navigating the Web" was created on one page. See understanding the size of the page you are browsing

HINT: If you wanted to print just the information currently on your monitor screen. You can hightlight what you want. Copy it to the clipboard & then paste it into a word processing document & print it. You will get just what you copied & pasted & not a long document.


Understanding the size of the page you are browsing
Your browser can only display just so much information on the monitor screen. Therefore if the page is larger than your monitor screen, you can determine this looking to the right & bottom of the page you are looking at. If there is a slider button {the area between the indicating arrows} this tells you where you are in the page. In the example below, the right slider indicates it is at the top {vertical} of the page, but there is more information below. The bottom {hortizonal} slider indicates that most of the page is shown. NOTE: If there was no slider between the indicating arrows & those indicating arrows are grayed out, then you would be looking at all of the page.



URL
Acronym meaning Universal Resourse Locator. A URL is a name for the numbers that the computer needs to find a web site or page on the internet. Did you know you can simply click on your BACK button on your browser to return where you were before you clicked here?