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EDITOR:
Kristie Bigliazzi
First
of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Kristie, and I have been
online
since 1996. I am a WAHM (Work at home mom) of two beautiful children,
and
a wife to a wonderful man who is in law enforcement. A year after
the birth of my second child, is when I decided to sign on to the
Internet.
I have been involved with computers since DOS was the only operating
system
out there. I remember all too well how I felt when dialing in
that
first time. I was lost, confused, and wanted to move throughout the
Internet,
but I kept running into those cyber brick walls. I know I must have
drove
my ISP (Internet Service Provider) silly. I was constantly calling
asking
questions. It was not long before I was calling back with links to
various
web sites and different tips for the ISP to check out.
After
a few months, my ISP called me up and asked if I would like to do a
monthly
newsletter to list different aspects of the Internet. I accepted their
offer and wrote the newsletter for a little over two years before
moving
on to my next adventure on the Internet which was opening my web design
business. I enjoyed helping others out by giving them tips and new
sites
to surf to.
Online
Tips for "newbies" to the Internet
New
to the Internet
What do
I do? Where
do I go? How do I? These are some of the various questions that will be
explained in this section. Note: I am a PC user so most of these
tips
will only work for personal computers. Although some just might work on
Mac's.
Probably
one of the
first things you need to know is… What is http://www.digital-women.com?
Well, I will leave it up to Rebecca to explain in the rest of the
Digital
Women site, what the Digital Women Group is all about, but what is
http://www.digital-women.com?
This is a Uniform Resource Locator. In short a URL. A URL is an address
to locate files. In this case, it is the address to locate the files on
the Digital Women server. Whether you type this URL into your browser’s
location line, address line, or click on a hyper link within a web
site,
you are telling the browser to go find the files stored on a remote
server
and download them. The domain name for this URL would be
digital-women.com.
Now,
run your cursor
over the URL above and look at the bottom left hand corner of your
browser.
You will see that the URL shows up on the bottom of your browser window
before you click on the link. This is a helpful tip to figure out where
you would surf to if the link were titled "Click Me". My first thought
when seeing a link saying, "Click Me" is why should I?
Netiquette:
One
basic rule of
netiquette is, never use all capital letters when conversing with
someone.
In the Internet language this perceived as yelling. Another would be,
to
get in the habit of using bcc instead of cc when sending e-mail to
multiple
people. This protects your friends e-mail address from being put on a
spam
list. It also helps the reader of your e-mail because they don't have
to
scroll through all the e-mail addy's to get to the message you have
sent.
Furthermore, when replying to an e-mail do not use the reply to all
unless
you are on a e-mail list and would like everyone on that list to
receive
your reply.
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| Saving
your address
book
Netscape:
1. Open
up the address
book window (in Netscape 3.0 go to window then to address book) (in
Netscape
communicator go to communicator then down to address book)
2. Click
on File,
and you will see a drop down menu.
3. Go
down to "Save
as" and this will open up your save window.
4. Make
sure to
select which drive and directory you want your address book saved to. I
like to save my address book to a floppy just for safe keeping. If you
would like to do the same, click on the arrow button where it says
"save
in" and look for the a: drive. (floppy drive)
5. File
name will
be address and the type of file will be html file.
Internet
Explorer:
1. Open
your windows
explorer by going to your start button/programs/windows explorer.
2. Click
on the
letter of your hard drive (most commonly C drive)
3.
Scroll down to
your windows folder and double click.
4.
Double click
on Application Data.
5.
Double Click
on Microsoft.
6. Right
click on
Address book and send to floppy drive.
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Bookmarks
Netscape:
To add a bookmark, click on bookmarks and then add bookmark. If you
would
like to file it in a folder, click on file bookmark instead of add, and
select the folder to file it in.
To
backup your bookmarks,
open up your bookmarks file. (click on bookmarks, and edit bookmarks)
This
will bring up your bookmarks window. Now just click on file and save
as.
Save this file to a floppy.
More
Netscape Tips
Internet
Explorer:
To add a bookmark, click on Favorites then add to favorites. If you
would
like to put the URL your saving into a separate folder, click on
"create
in" and select the folder.
To
backup your bookmarks
for Internet Explorer, all you need to do is go to your windows
explorer/windows
folder/favorites. Save the Favorites folder to a floppy disk.
More Internet
Explorer Tips
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| Copy
& Paste:
To copy something from the Internet, put your cursor on the item you
want
to copy, hold down your left mouse button and drag across the text.
This
will highlight what you want to copy. Once it is all highlighted, click
on your right mouse button and select copy from the dropdown menu. Ctrl
c will also copy.
To
paste, put you
cursor on the place you want to paste to, click the right mouse button
and paste. You can also use the copy and paste under edit in your tool
bar or ctrl v.
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Uploading
&
Downloading: Uploading is the term used when you transfer a file
from
your computer to the Internet or remote computer. Downloading is the
term
used when you transfer a file from the Internet to your computer.
Zip
Files:
Most programs that are downloaded from the Internet come in zip form.
When
you download a zip file, you will need another file to unzip it. The
files
are compress into a zip form to make the download time minimal. These
files
will have a .zip extension on the end of the name. When you unzip them
they decompress. I have found the Winzip program, which is a zip/unzip
program, to be one of the best.
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