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U3A Computing CMP Class
Autumn 2014 course
Leader – Brian Moore
Week 3 of 10 weeks.
Dates for Autumn Term 14= Sept 8, 15, 22, Oct 6,
13, 20, Nov 10, 17, 24, Dec 1.
All Mondays 2:30 to 4:30 pm at Wells Green
Methodist Church School room.
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Last week we learnt about =
Files and Folders in My Documents.
Copy and Paste so that they can be moved.
What is a Window.
Using Alt & Tab to switch between Windows.
Libraries – A new feature. Adding more locations.
Have decided to teach LibreOffice, instead of
Microsoft Word.
This week – The Internet
• Is a vast array of interconnected Computers.
• Main uses are =
• World Wide Web. Hence the www in site
names. It common now to refer to this just as
the Internet.
Email – Sending letters by a computer. To be
covered in detail in week 6.
World Wide Web
• Vast collection of information to search for.
• Copies of what you search for are widespread so it’s
hard for information to go completely missing.
• Once something is published it can never be
withdrawn.
• To view you need a computer connected to the
Internet and a Browser program – Usually Internet
Explorer IE. Are others – Firefox, Opera & Google
Chrome but no great need to change.
• Currently the latest version of Internet Explorer is
V11.
Internet Explorer Layout
Back to
Earlier Later Dropdown list of earlier pages
Pages.
Refresh
URL or Web Site
RH Click here to
get this list
Current
page
Another tabbed
page behind
Menu bar
Command bar
Print
Find on this page
(Preview)
A Secure site- Lock symbol
or GO or Compatibility symbol
Tools
Options
Go to Home page
Favorites
Using Internet Explorer
• The top dark blue row at the top shows the current
web page “Title”. Hopefully the web designer has
put something descriptive.
• If you have been visiting many pages you can use
the big
arrows to go back/forwards over the
sites visited.
Unfortunately this does not work completely if you
have been in “Secure” web sites as used by Banks.
They start with HTTPS:// and have a Lock Symbol in
orange. Usually they provide a link to go back to
earlier pages in the body of the page and may even
warn you not to use the arrows.
You will get warnings when entering and leaving
“Secure” pages – answer “Yes”.
Next is a down arrow which show a list of
previous pages. You can select as required.
Next is a Green Refresh which forces the page
to be reloaded.
In the next long box is the web site you are
currently at.
Just as every residence has a unique street
address, every webpage has its own web
address. That address is called the Uniform
Resource Locator (URL) or simpler – Web Site.
Eg the URL for the Microsoft main website is
http://www.microsoft.com
If you know the URL for a page, you can type it directly
into Internet Explorer . Then, Click the Green Go
button or press ENTER to go to the website.
You don't have to type http:// For example, you can type
www.microsoft.com and Internet Explorer will fill in the
rest.
The URL or web site address has to be entered exactly
with no spaces. The case does not matter so it’s
simplest to use lower case or small letters throughout.
Because the URL has to be exact most people use a
search engine instead. EG its easier to just search for
“U3a Nantwich” than to type
http://www.creweandnantwich-u3a.org.uk/
in the address bar.
Tabs
• Tabs. Allows to switch between several active web
sites. Here I am on a page about Ebay. If you click
on a new tab here you get an empty new page to
work with. You can go back to eg Cat - Wikipedia by
clicking on it again.
Many new Tabs are allowed.
• But you could just start another Internet Explorer
running. Best use one for each subject & tabs for
detail of that subject.
First Page shown
• When you start Internet Explorer, it goes to
whatever webpage is set as the home page.
• To get back to your home page at any time, click the
Home button (has a House Icon).
• To change your Home page it’s not too difficult.
Get the web page you want. Click on Tools, Internet
Options, Use current, OK.
• Installing some software will try to change your
home page, always for their advantage. Answer no.
Search Engines
• Search engines enable you to find relevant
information on the Web easily.
You type a few key words (or phrases) and the
Search engine returns pages which it thinks a will be
relevant.
• From Internet Explorer 10 the long web site box can
also be used for entering a search term, then press
enter. It will then search using “bing”.
• Google is the leader in “Search Engines” but “Ask
Jeeves” is better at searching a phrase.
• https://www.winhelp.us/internet-explorer-11search.html configure IE Search capabilities
• With Google, if a phrase in enclosed in quotes then
it will search for the exact phrase only, not just the
individual words in any order. Eg "discover and
learn about London" is in 5 places only. Try this
without the quotes, you get 66,300,000 matches.
• Putting a “+” sign in front of a word will only find
articles containing that word.
Similarly “-” will only find articles NOT containing
that word. This is very useful because a problem of
search engines is too many results.
Google has an Advance Search which uses this.
• If its a brand name you are searching for, Google
will do its best to include Adverts.
• The last part of a website name has a . Followed
by groups of 2 or 3 letters. .com was the original
and stands for Company.
• 2 letters define the type of site eg .ac = a college or
university. .biz stands for Business
• Last 2 letters define the country. Eg .uk
• To search for web sites from one country only add
eg site:.uk or site:au for Australia.
• To search for a document only add eg filetype:pdf
Favorites etc
US spelling only
• Internet Explorer (IE) allows a user adjustable list of
Favourite web sites for easy access.
• Another name for the same thing is “Bookmarks”.
• Its the yellow star on the right Just select what you
want and it will enter that site. Some are in Yellow
Folders.
• If you have found a interesting site and want to save
it, click on “Add to favorites” and verify or change
its name.
• There is also a History Tab to allow easy access to
site visited up to a week ago. Feeds, best Google it
• RH click in a blank area just left of the “Home”
button. Tick to get the Menu bar then.
• Under “File”, Print is useful but beware web pages
don't conform to A4 paper size and may waste lots
of paper. Check this with Print PreView. Better to
copy what you want to a Word document and print
that.
• “Edit” has cut, copy & paste as talked about last
week. “Find on this Page” is useful. Try it later.
• “View” In Toolbars & Explorer Bars, don't have too
many ticked – they take up too much room. Full
Screen is useful, use F11 to put back as was.
Cookies
• On the Internet its not a biscuit but small file
defining to a website information about previous
visits to that same site.
• Its main use is to present you with relevant
information, but that's mainly advertising.
• Its also used to detect weather you have logged into
a site. And prompt you to if required.
• By law a website now has to ask you if you want to
accept Cookies. Many sites will not work properly if
you don't accept.
Internet Explorer Tools
• Click on the Cog to get tools.
• If a site is not displayed correctly, try adding it to
“Compatibility View” it’s in Settings.
• You can “Pin” your most favourite site, eg Facebook
to the taskbar.
• In Internet Options you can delete previous
Browsing History. As well as covering your tracks its
sometimes clears web browsing errors if you have
gone through a sequence of pages.
• In Privacy, make sure “Turn on Pop-up Blocker is
ticked.
Practical
• The world is your Oyster now! If you want to know
something, somebody in the world is bound to
know about it. Finding it is the real skill. Today, just
a few ideas. You will need to type them in (or
Google them). Try Find on this page,
Forward/Back, Make as a Favorite, Another Tab,
Change Home Page.
• www.bbc.co.uk/
• www.google.co.uk
• www.ebay.co.uk
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Quiz
• When is Spring Half Term at St Thomas More
school
• What is the Amazon price for
“Lawn Grub Killer 20Sqm
• On http://www.facebook.com
Login as email=
[email protected]
and password= u3a.Monday I am known as Brianu
Mooreu. Edit the profile if you like.
? Answer= Friday 13th February 2015 to Monday 23rd February 2015
” Answer= unavailable
Customising Internet Explorer
• Click on Start, you can see Internet Explorer.
• Try RH click then “Pin to Taskbar”. It will now
show in the Quick launch area at the bottom but
have gone from the start menu.
• Try “Tools” cog icon on RHS. Try Zoom, you might
prefer a different setting.
Look at “Manage add-ons” This is where you can
change the default search engine. Note “Search in
the address bar” is ticked. And ticking “Prevent
programs from suggesting....” is a good idea.
Further reading
• All my course material is available on the local U3A
website. http://www.creweandnantwichu3a.org.uk/ under Course/Groups, Computing & I.T.
Groups, CMP, Course Material, Computing (CMP)
Downloads.
• Getting on the Web – Internet Explorer
has much more detail.
• Searching the Web Word Document - About
Search Engines.