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.
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:
Tutorial, Netscape page
Individuals: Roll over menu
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:
Export the bookmark file and open it as a document: the locations will appear as
undelined selectable locations. The best place would be in your LAN account so that
you can access it from anywhere on Campus via the Apple Chooser
or
Have you own home page.
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.
Adobe Inc. will licence
Adobe Acrobat
to be merged with new browsers like for newspaper-like documents. It is
already installed on all or most Macintoshes at the Intitute.
