The Netscape Navigator is an Internet information browser with a very user-friendly, windows-like appearance, assisting users to roam the Internet's immense world of multimedia information. Using this powerful tool, you will have access to all the information and resources provided by traditional Internet tools, such as gopher, ftp, and telnet. The multimedia aspect of Netscape Navigator means that users are able to find and use art work, maps, photos, sounds, music, and even movies! Written with both the current Internet and Internet beginners in mind, this book is organized in a series of eleven online sessions, each intended to be done online and hands-on so the user works in conjuction with the book to first put the Windows PC directly onto the Internet and then install the copy of Netscape Navigator. Netscape Navigator is available for free evaluation from many locations on the Internet and for a small fee at software stores.
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About the Authors. Dedication. Acknowledgments. Installing the Hands-On Netscape CD- ROM. Installation. Netscape Video Tutorials. Introduction. Movie: Authors Movie: Netscape Navigator. What Is Netscape Navigator and What Can It Do? Why Have We Written This Book for the Microsoft Windows User? Introduction. For Whom Is This Book Intended? Novice Internet Users. Internet Users from Information Services. Experienced Internet Users. How Is This Book Organized? Part One: Netscape Ready. Part Two: Netscape Set. Part Three: Netscape Go! Conventions Used throughout the Book. How to Use This Book. I. NETSCAPE READY. 1. What You Need to Start. Movie: Internet Growth. Movie: WWW Growth. The Internet: A Quick Review. Internet Access Methods. Internet Connections. The Starting Places. Activity: Getting Started-A Road Map. Hardware. Activity: Checking Your Hardware and Software. Communications. Software. TCP/IP. Shareware. Activity: Finding and Installing TCP/IP Software. Internet Service Providers. Activity: Selecting Your Internet Service Provider. Selecting Your Internet Service Provider. (ISP). Suggestions for Selecting Providers. Finding and Contacting Internet Service Providers Session Summary. 2. Getting Netscape Installed. Movie: Extracting Netscape. Movie: Installing Netscape. Getting Netscape Navigator- Choices. Activity: Downloading Netscape Navigator Using ftp. Downloading Netscape Using ftp. Activity: Installing Netscape. Activity: Purchasing and Installing Netscape. Netscape Navigator Personal Edition Installation. Session Summary. 3. A Glimpse of the Web. Movie: HyperLinks. Movie: What's NewWhat Is the World Wide Web? The Global Internet. The World Wide Web. Graphic Browsers. Netscape. Activity: Starting Netscape Navigator. Name Resolution. Activity: Touring Netscape's Home Page. Activity: Netscape's What's New! Button. Understanding Hyperlinks. Activity: Visiting Web Sites. What's Cool? The Handbook-Online Help. Net Search. Net Directory. Session Summary. II. NETSCAPE SET. 4. Touring Netscape. Movie: Netscape Control Bars. Movie: Alt and Ctrl Keys Movie: Right Mouse Button. Movie: Security Activity: A Grand Tour of Netscape. The Title Bar. The Menu Bar. Netscape Toolbar. Directory Buttons. Mouse Control. Activity: Controlling Netscape. ALT Key Control. CTRL Key Control. The File Menu. The Edit Menu. The View Menu. The Go Menu. The Bookmarks Menu. The Options Menu. The Directory Menu. The Help Menu. Activity: Keystrokes and Mouse Clicks. Clicking on a Hyperlink. Activity: The Right Mouse Button. Activity: Netscape Security. Session Conclusion. Session Summary. 5. What's Out There? Movie: Uniform Resource Locators. Movie: History List. Movie: Bookmark List. Activity: What's Out There on the World Wide Web? How Do We Address These Places? Activity: Uniform Resource Locators-URLs. Hypertext Transfer Protocol: http. Hypertext Markup Language: html. Activity: Using URLs to Probe the Web. Exercise A: Netscape's What's Cool? Page. Exercise B: PCWEEK. Exercise C: Guide to Australia. Exercise D: The City of Palo Alto, California. Exercise E: The Internet Book Information Center. Exercise F: Comprehensive List of Sites. Activity: History and Bookmarks: An Introduction. History. Bookmarks. Adding URLs to the Bookmark List. Using the Bookmark List. Adding Additional URLs to the Book mark List. Activity: Setting Netscape's Options. Show Toolbar. Show Location. Show Directory Buttons. Auto Load Images. Show FTP File Information. Save Options. Options Summary. Session Summary. 6. A Tour of the World Wide Web. Movie: Web Tour List. Movie: Editing the Bookmark List Activity: Touring the Web. Exercise A: WEBTOUR.HTM. The Web Tour List. Art and Entertainment. Banking. Commerce. Companies. Education. Finance. Government. International. Internet. Malls and Marketing. The News. Organizations. Travel. Activity: How to Build Your Bookmark List. Adding Bookmarks. Activity: Organizing Bookmarks. Add Bookmarks Under:. Bookmark Menu:. Activity: Editing Your Bookmark List. Session Summary. III. NETSCAPE GO! 7. Searching with Netscape. Movie: Yahoo Movie: Searching. Looking for Information. Activity: Internet Browsing and Searching. Search Engines. How They Work. Search Engine Searching. Activity: Directory Searches-Yahoo. Yahoo. Searching for Particular Topics Using Netscape. Activity: Searching with WebCrawler. Activity: Searching with Lycos. Activity: Searching With InfoSeek. The Quick Method. People Searching. Activity: Finding People with Netscape. Verifying the Address. Other People Searches. The Knowbot. The Four11 Directory Services. Search Engines versus Directory Searches. Simple Search Terms. Wildcard Searching. Complex Search Terms. Activity: Searching Tips and Tricks. Other Restrictions. Synonyms. Spelling Errors. Helps and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). Falling in Love. Session Summary. 8. Using Netscape for telnet, ftp, gopher, E-mail, and Usenet. Movie: File Transfer Protocol Movie: GopherBrief Review of telnet. Activity: Using Netscape for telnet Sessions. Brief Review of File Transfer Protocol (ftp). Activity: Using Netscape for ftp Sessions: Getting an ASCII File. Binary versus ASCII Files. Initial Observations about Using Netscape for ftp. Compressed Files. Where Does Compression Take Place? Typical File Extensions. Activity: Using Netscape and ftp to Get a Copy of pkz204g.exe. Activity: Getting pkz204g.exe Ready to Use. Activity: Using Netscape and ftp to Get Virus Protection Software. Activity: Using PKUNZIP to Get scn-212e.zip Ready to Use. Summary of ftp Activities. Brief Review of gopher. Activity: Using Netscape for gopher Sessions. Setting Preferences for E-mail. Activity: Using Netscape for E-mail. Quote Document. Brief Review of Usenet News. Activity: Using Netscape for Usenet. Session Summary. 9. Using Multimedia with Netscape. Movie: Visiting the White House Movie: Adobe Acrobat ExamplesA Brief Multimedia Vocabulary Lesson. Activity: Accessing the IBM Welcome Page. PC Speaker Driver. Activity: Getting the PC Speaker Driver and WPLANY. Installing the PC Speaker Driver. Installing and Associating the Windows Play Any File (WPLANY). Running the Windows Play Any File (WPLANY). Playing a Sound. GIF and JPEG Images. Activity: Viewing Images on the World Wide Web. Activity: Viewing Documents Using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Additional PDF Resources. Activity: Getting and Installing Movie Players. Finding Movie Files. Music, Images, and Multimedia. Guide to Film and Video. Current Weather Maps/Movies. Downloading and Installing QuickTime. Session Summary. 10. Getting Started With Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Movie: HTML DocumentHypertext Markup Language Introduction. Activity: Setting Up an HTML Document. Headings. Activity: Creating a List. Activity: Adding Hyperlinks. Activity: Checking Hyperlinks. 7 Session Summary. Activity: Additional HTML Resources. 11. Netscape, Your Way. Movie: Preferences Activity: Customizing Netscape - Preferences. Styles. Fonts and Colors. Mail and News Cache and Network. Applications and Directories. Images and Security. Security. Proxies. Helper Applications. Becoming Aware of Newer Versions. Deciding When to Get the Newer Versions. Activity: Staying Up-to-Date. Obtaining and Installing the Newer Versions. Session Summary. APPENDICES. Appendix A. Internet Service Providers. Internet Service Providers (Courtesy of the Internet Society). Appendix B. TCP/IP Background. The TCP/IP Program. What TCP Does. What IP Does. Internet Addresses. Internet Names. Domain Nameservers. An Internet Gateway or Provider Connection. SLIP and PPP. Appendix C. Downloading and Installing win32s Software.
