COE 101 Laptop Component - Using Browsers and Getting Around Online

 Getting online

1. Plug in your Ethernet cable to the Ethernet port in the laptop and the other end to a data port.  You may be able to make use of available wireless connections in various places on campus.
2. If everything is working properly you should be able to double click the IE (Internet Explorer) icon and begin to view web sites.

 Using Browsers

1. Open a browser (Internet Explorer “IE”, FireFox, Opera, Netscape, etc.)

2. The first thing displayed is your browser’s Start Page or Home Page.  Right-click on the pull down menu (the bar at the top that reads “File, Edit, View”, etc.).  You have the option here to turn On/Off certain toolbars.  One at a time, right click on a blank part of the toolbar and left click these options to turn them on:  Standard Buttons, Address Bar.  If these options are already on they will have a check mark next to them.
3. Move the mouse cursor to the Address Bar, click once and type in the address for Bethel College:  www.bethel-college.edu.  (The browser should put in the http:// for you, which, by the way, stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.)
4. Use the scroll bar on the right and/or bottom to view different portions of Bethel’s Web Site Home Page.
5. Click on the pull down menu option Favorites.  Click on Add to Favorites.  This stores the current page (in this case Bethel’s Home Page) for faster future retrieval.  In Netscape, Favorites are called Bookmarks.
6. Again, click on the pull down menu Favorites.  Click on Organize Favorites.  You will see a little window that has your linked web sites.  The last one should be “Welcome to Bethel College”.  Click on it once.  Once it is highlighted, click on Rename.  Type in “Bethel College Home Page”.  Click the little box next to “Make available offline”.  Click, Close.  If necessary, click OK.
7. Next, on the toolbar click on the standard button Favorites (the one with the little folder icon).  On the left side of the screen you will see your favorites listed.  If you want to use any of your favorites in the future, double click them from here.  Close the Favorites window by clicking on the “X” by Favorites.   
8. In the Address Bar, type in the web address:  www.stlouisblues.com
9. Add this site to your favorites.
10. On the left side of the Blues Home Page click on “The Team”(this is a Link).  Use the Back button again.
11. This time right-click on the link “The Team”.  Click on the option “Open Link in New Window”.  Close this window.

 Saving information from a web page

1.      Scroll down (if necessary) until you see the first paragraph on the Blues home page.  Using your mouse Highlight this paragraph.

2.      Go to the pull down menu Edit click on Copy (this places all the text you selected on the clipboard).

3. Open a Word Processor and use the Edit pull down menu to Paste the text in (off the clipboard).
4. Go back to the IE window.  Scroll up to the top of the page.  Right-click on the hockey player.  Click on the option Save Picture As.  Save it in My Documents.  Call it “hockey1”.  Click Save.  (This image is a GIF file.  Some other image extensions are JPG or JPEG.)
5. You can also save the whole page and then reopen it later offline with a browser.  Go to the pull down menu File and Click Save As.  Again, save it in My Documents but call it “hockey2”.
6. Close your Browser and disconnect the LAN cable.

Working Offline

1.      If you have been to a site recently (and it is still in your Cache folder) you can still view it while you are not online (that's why it's called working Offline).

2.      Open your browser.  If you are not online or logged on to the network your browser should prompt you to Work Offline.  Choose this option.

3.      Web sites available for your viewing will be in the Address Bar (if you typed in the web address) or in your Favorites folder (if you saved it there).

4.      Use the Address Bar to view the Bethel Home Page and then use the Favorites folder to view the St. Louis Blues Home Page.  Since you previously viewed (and/or saved) these sites they are stored in your computer.

5.      Go to the pull down menu File and click Open.  Click Browse.  Look in My Documents.  Change Type of Files to GIF.  Click “hockey1”, click Open, click OK.

6.      Once this picture has loaded, save it to a floppy disk using the pull down menu File and Save As.

Cleaning out your Cache

1. Go to the pull down menu Tools, then click Internet Options (If you use Netscape Navigator go to Edit pull down menu, then choose Preferences). 
2. On the Internet Options window the first tab displayed is General.
3. The Home Page section allows you to change the page that your browser opens to when you first go online.
4. The Temporary Internet files section is where you can delete all those disk cluttering pages that are stored anytime you go to a web site.  BUT, be careful you may want to work with some of those pages at a later time offline.
5. The History section is the same deal as Temporary Internet files except instead of pages it stores links to those pages.  Also, notice the option to store links for a certain number of days.
6. Periodically clean out Cache folders and History folders by clicking on the delete files and clear history option buttons.

Assignment

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Go to the Bethel College Home Page (www.bethel-college.edu).  Click on the Library link to go to the Library Home Page.  Save the Library Home Page as a webpage and a text file.
3. Go to the St. Louis Blues Hockey Team Home Page (www.stlouisblues.com).  Save an image of a hockey player as an image file.  Name it “hockey1”.
4. Highlight the text of the first paragraph of news.  Copy and paste this text into a MS Word document and save the document.  Name it “hockey2”.

 EXTRA CREDIT:

1.      Find a picture on the web of Ludwig van Beethoven.  Save it on your laptop.
2.      Find three web sites (or pages) that you will use on a regular basis and add them to your Favorites folder.

BACK TO LIBRARY HOME PAGE
BACK TO BETHEL COLLEGE HOME PAGE