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Introduction to Netscape Communicator
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What is the Internet?
• The Internet is a network made up of lots of interconnected networks and includes the following – WWW
– Newsgroups
– FTP
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What is Netscape Communicator?
• Netscape Communicator allow you to connect the Internet and do the following– Browse the World Wide Web (WWW)– Send and receive electronic mail– Participate in Discussion groups
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Starting Netscape Communicator
ShortcutIcon
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Communicator Screen
Toolbars
- Component BarStatus Bar
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Component Bar
• The Component bar allows quick access to Communicators sub-programs
Docked Mode Floating Mode
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Review Questions
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Browsing the Web
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Web Sites and URLs
• A Web site is a group of pages that can be viewed by people on the Internet
• A URL is the address you use to access information on the Web site. Web addresses always start with http://– http://www.microsoft.com
– http://www.cctglobal.com
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Navigation Toolbar
• The Navigation toolbar is located underneath the menu bar• The Navigation toolbar has many icons to speed up your Web browsing
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Location Toolbar
• Type the URL of the Web site you wish to visit into the text box
Click the down arrow to view a list of recently entered Web sites
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Personal Toolbar
• By selecting icons on the Personal toolbar you can quickly open your favorite web sites
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Opening a Web Site
• Type the URL of the Web site into the Location toolbar text box
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Navigating a Web Site
• Links to other pages are typically displayed in blue text with an underscore
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Forms
• Some Web sites will ask you to enter information into a form
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Downloading Files from the Web
• Right click on the file and select Save Link As
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Bookmarking a Web Site
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Saving Web Pages and Images
• Right Click on the image• Select the Save Image As command
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Security on the Web
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Controlling Image Loading
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Review Questions
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Searching the Web
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What are Search Engines?
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Searching the Internet Using Alta Vista
http://altavista.digital.com/
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Searching the Internet Using Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/
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Searching the Internet Using Infoseek
http://www.infoseek.com/
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Searching the Internet Using Excite
http://www.excite.com/
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Searching the Internet using Hotbot
http://www.hotbot.com/
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Searching the Internet With Web Crawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/
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Searching the Internet Using Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com/
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Review Questions
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Bookmarks
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Bookmarks Window
• Select Edit Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu
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Manually Creating and Editing aBookmark
• Creating and Editing of bookmarks is done via the Bookmark Properties dialog box
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Organizing your Bookmarks
• By default new bookmarks are added to the bottom of the bookmarks list in the order they were bookmarked, this can make for a very cluttered Bookmarks menu
• Grouping bookmarks of a similar type into bookmark folders makes finding the site you want a lot easier
• Use separators to further divide your bookmarks
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Moving a Bookmark
• Keep you bookmarks in the appropriate folders• Move your bookmarks into there correct folders using :
– Cut and Paste– Drag and Drop
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Creating a New Bookmarks Folder
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Customizing the Personal Toolbar
• The icons on the Personal Toolbar match the contents of the Personal Toolbar folder
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Review Questions
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Electronic Mail
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What is Electronic Mail?
• Electronic Mail or email allows you to communicate with people within your organization, or if you are connected to the internet you can send messages all over the world
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Opening and Closing Messenger
• Select Messenger Mailbox from the Communicator drop down menu
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Messenger’s Window
- Message List
- Message Text
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Messenger’s Toolbar
• The icons on the toolbar give to quick and easy access to all of Messenger’s basic functions
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Sending an Email Message
Message Text Area
New Msg Icon
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Spell Checking your Messages
Spelling Icon
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Reading your Email Messages
Select message from list
Text of message displayed here
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Navigating your Email Messages
• Use the Go drop down menu to browse your messages
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Responding to Email Messages
• Use the Reply icon to respond to an email message• You can send your reply to the sender or the sender and all
recipients of the message
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Forwarding an Email Message
• Use the Forward icon to send a copy of a message to someone else
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Attaching a File to an Email Message
• Attaching a file to a message is an efficient way of sending a file to your colleagues
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Viewing an Attached File
Click on the Paper Clip icon to display the attached files
Double click on the file you wish to view
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Review Questions
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Address Book
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Address Book Window
• Communicators address book helps organize the Email addresses of your important contacts
Field Headings
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Making Entries in the Address Book
• Click the New Card icon on the Address Book toolbar
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Using the Address Book
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Review Questions
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Discussion Groups
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What are Discussion Groups?
• Open area’s for exchanging messages with other people on the Internet
• Ask questions• Answer other peoples questions• Or just sit back and watch other people exchange
information!
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Opening and Closing Collabra
• Select the Collabra Discussion Groups command from the Communicator drop down menu
• Click the Discussion Groups icon on the Component bar
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Collabra’s Toolbar
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Subscribing to Discussion Groups• Click on the Subscribe icon to open the Subscribe to Discussion Groups dialog box• Select the group you wish to subscribe to from the list• Click the
Subscribe button
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Searching for a Discussion Group
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Reading Discussion Groups
Click on + symbol to view a list of subscribed groups
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Discussion Window
Message List -
Message Text -
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Navigating a Discussion Group
• Use the Go drop down menu or keyboard shortcuts to browse through the discussion group
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Posting to a Discussion Group
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Responding to a Discussion Group Message
• Use the Reply icon to send responses to discussion group messages
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Forwarding a Discussion Group Message
• Use the Forward icon to send a copy of a discussion group message to someone else via email
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Review Questions
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Customizing Communicator
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Customizing Navigator
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Customizing Appearance
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Review Questions