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LON-CAPA NETSCAPE PRESENTATION 20 SEP 95
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Wednesday Septembre 20th 1995,
WELCOME !

3 more days of summer...


Netscape At the Institute: What's in it for You ?


WHAT IS NETSCAPE

Netscape is one of the many available programs (nicknamed browsers) that interface between the user, it's computer and the World Wide Web on the International Network of Networks: The Internet.

How to use Netscape: illustrated Tutorial


BOOK MARKS

Add Bookmark: The page you are viewing now is added to the list of bookmarks on the computer you are using. This bookmark will not be available if you move to another computer, unless you add it at your new location too.

Rollie has placed a few usefulbookmarks on each machine:

Large bookmark lists do not make sense as they clutter the bookmarking. If there are many places you like to connect to, then you need to do one of the following:


HOME PAGES

A home page is like a personal address book: it contains the Internet addresses that you like to visit in a file that you keep in your directory.

Unlike the previous example of the bookmark file it can be accessed from anywhere in the world ! This is the best way to share information with others to let them know of places to connect. Actually the same bookmark file as previously can be your home page. The importance is WHERE you save it.....

To have a home page you need an account on the bioinformatics server.

If you already have an account you need to create a directory called public_html in your home area (the default place you get to when connecting via Telnet or the Chooser).

In this case your default home page would be accessed with the following command:

http://www.bocklabs.wisc.edu/~user

Where user is your username for logging into the system. Note the ~ sign, it is very critical that it be included here.

Home pages contain text information as well as Internet address information which is usually hiddenwith special characters like < or >. When an Internet address is hidden in this way the user can usually click on a simple phrase which appears underlined and colored that describes the address or its content.

This special marking is called HTML:
Hyper Text Markup Language
as described in the next section.


HTML: Making Web documents

Beginner's guide to HTML

You can really get started with only 3 HTML commands !!!

Just check out the minimum HTML document (a link from the above reference).


WHAT'S COMING:

THE END...
for now

Last Modified September 19, 1995