| About the Authors |
| Dedication |
| Acknowledgments |
| Installing the Hands-On Netscape CD- ROM |
| Installation |
| Netscape Video Tutorials |
| Introduction |
| Movie: Authors Movie: Netscape Navigator |
| What Is Netscape Navigator and What Can It Do? |
| Why Have We Written This Book for the Microsoft Windows User? |
| For Whom Is This Book Intended? Novice Internet Users |
| Internet Users from Information Services |
| Experienced Internet Users |
| How Is This Book Organized? |
| Netscape Ready / Part 1： |
| Netscape Set / Part 2： |
| Netscape Go! Conventions Used throughout the Book / Part 3： |
| How to Use This Book |
| What You Need to Start / I： |
| Movie: Internet Growth |
| Movie: WWW Growth |
| The Internet: A Quick Review |
| Internet Access Methods |
| Internet Connections |
| The Starting Places |
| Activity: Getting Started-A Road Map |
| Hardware |
| Activity: Checking Your Hardware and Software |
| Communications |
| Software |
| TCP/IP |
| Shareware |
| Activity: Finding and Installing TCP/IP Software |
| Internet Service Providers |
| Activity: Selecting Your Internet Service Provider |
| Selecting Your Internet Service Provider |
| (ISP) |
| Suggestions for Selecting Providers |
| Finding and Contacting Internet Service Providers Session Summary |
| Getting Netscape Installed / 2： |
| Movie: Extracting Netscape |
| Movie: Installing Netscape |
| Getting Netscape Navigator- Choices |
| Activity: Downloading Netscape Navigator Using ftp |
| Downloading Netscape Using ftp |
| Activity: Installing Netscape |
| Activity: Purchasing and Installing Netscape |
| Netscape Navigator Personal Edition Installation |
| Session Summary |
| A Glimpse of the Web / 3： |
| Movie: HyperLinks |
| Movie: What's NewWhat Is the World Wide Web? The Global Internet |
| The World Wide Web |
| Graphic Browsers |
| Netscape |
| Activity: Starting Netscape Navigator |
| Name Resolution |
| Activity: Touring Netscape's Home Page |
| Activity: Netscape's What's New! Button |
| Understanding Hyperlinks |
| Activity: Visiting Web Sites |
| What's Cool? The Handbook-Online Help |
| Net Search |
| Net Directory |
| Touring Netscape / II： |
| Movie: Netscape Control Bars |
| Movie: Alt and Ctrl Keys Movie: Right Mouse Button |
| Movie: Security Activity: A Grand Tour of Netscape |
| The Title Bar |
| The Menu Bar |
| Netscape Toolbar |
| Directory Buttons |
| Mouse Control |
| Activity: Controlling Netscape |
| ALT Key Control |
| CTRL Key Control |
| The File Menu |
| The Edit Menu |
| The View Menu |
| The Go Menu |
| The Bookmarks Menu |
| The Options Menu |
| The Directory Menu |
| The Help Menu |
| Activity: Keystrokes and Mouse Clicks |
| Clicking on a Hyperlink |
| Activity: The Right Mouse Button |
| Activity: Netscape Security |
| Session Conclusion |
| What's Out There? / 5： |
| Movie: Uniform Resource Locators |
| Movie: History List |
| Movie: Bookmark List |
| Activity: What's Out There on the World Wide Web? |
| How Do We Address These Places? |
| Activity: Uniform Resource Locators-URLs |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol: http |
| Hypertext Markup Language: html |
| Activity: Using URLs to Probe the Web |
| Netscape's What's Cool? Page / Exercise A： |
| PCWEEK / Exercise B： |
| Guide to Australia / Exercise C： |
| The City of Palo Alto, California / Exercise D： |
| The Internet Book Information Center / Exercise E： |
| Comprehensive List of Sites / Exercise F： |
| Activity: History and Bookmarks: An Introduction |
| History |
| Bookmarks |
| Adding URLs to the Bookmark List |
| Using the Bookmark List |
| Adding Additional URLs to the Book mark List |
| Activity: Setting Netscape's Options |
| Show Toolbar |
| Show Location |
| Show Directory Buttons |
| Auto Load Images |
| Show FTP File Information |
| Save Options |
| Options Summary |
| A Tour of the World Wide Web / 6： |
| Movie: Web Tour List |
| Movie: Editing the Bookmark List Activity: Touring the Web |
| WEBTOUR.HTM |
| The Web Tour List |
| Art and Entertainment |
| Banking |
| Commerce |
| Companies |
| Education |
| Finance |
| Government |
| International |
| Internet |
| Malls and Marketing |
| The News |
| Organizations |
| Travel |
| Activity: How to Build Your Bookmark List |
| Adding Bookmarks |
| Activity: Organizing Bookmarks |
| Add Bookmarks Under: |
| Bookmark Menu: |
| Activity: Editing Your Bookmark List |
| Netscape Go! / III： |
| Searching with Netscape / 7： |
| Movie: Yahoo Movie: Searching |
| Looking for Information |
| Activity: Internet Browsing and Searching |
| Search Engines |
| How They Work |
| Search Engine Searching |
| Activity: Directory Searches-Yahoo |
| Yahoo |
| Searching for Particular Topics Using Netscape |
| Activity: Searching with WebCrawler |
| Activity: Searching with Lycos |
| Activity: Searching With InfoSeek |
| The Quick Method |
| People Searching |
| Activity: Finding People with Netscape |
| Verifying the Address |
| Other People Searches |
| The Knowbot |
| The Four11 Directory Services |
| Search Engines versus Directory Searches |
| Simple Search Terms |
| Wildcard Searching |
| Complex Search Terms |
| Activity: Searching Tips and Tricks |
| Other Restrictions |
| Synonyms |
| Spelling Errors |
| Helps and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) |
| Falling in Love |
| Using Netscape for telnet, ftp, gopher, E-mail, and Usenet / 8： |
| Movie: File Transfer Protocol Movie: GopherBrief Review of telnet |
| Activity: Using Netscape for telnet Sessions |
| Brief Review of File Transfer Protocol (ftp) |
| Activity: Using Netscape for ftp Sessions: Getting an ASCII File |
| Binary versus ASCII Files |
| Initial Observations about Using Netscape for ftp |
| Compressed Files |
| Where Does Compression Take Place? Typical File Extensions |
| Activity: Using Netscape and ftp to Get a Copy of pkz204g.exe |
| Activity: Getting pkz204g.exe Ready to Use |
| Activity: Using Netscape and ftp to Get Virus Protection Software |
| Activity: Using PKUNZIP to Get scn-212e.zip Ready to Use |
| Summary of ftp Activities |
| Brief Review of gopher |
| Activity: Using Netscape for gopher Sessions |
| Setting Preferences for E-mail |
| Activity: Using Netscape for E-mail |
| Quote Document |
| Brief Review of Usenet News |
| Activity: Using Netscape for Usenet |
| Using Multimedia with Netscape / 9： |
| Movie: Visiting the White House Movie: Adobe Acrobat ExamplesA Brief Multimedia Vocabulary Lesson |
| Activity: Accessing the IBM Welcome Page |
| PC Speaker Driver |
| Activity: Getting the PC Speaker Driver and WPLANY |
| Installing the PC Speaker Driver |
| Installing and Associating the Windows Play Any File (WPLANY) |
| Running the Windows Play Any File (WPLANY) |
| Playing a Sound |
| GIF and JPEG Images |
| Activity: Viewing Images on the World Wide Web |
| Activity: Viewing Documents Using Adobe Acrobat Reader |
| Additional PDF Resources |
| Activity: Getting and Installing Movie Players |
| Finding Movie Files |
| Music, Images, and Multimedia |
| Guide to Film and Video |
| Current Weather Maps/Movies |
| Downloading and Installing QuickTime |
| Getting Started With Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) / 10： |
| Movie: HTML DocumentHypertext Markup Language Introduction |
| Activity: Setting Up an HTML Document |
| Headings |
| Activity: Creating a List |
| Activity: Adding Hyperlinks |
| Activity: Checking Hyperlinks |
| 7 Session Summary |
| Activity: Additional HTML Resources |
| Netscape, Your Way / 11： |
| Movie: Preferences Activity: Customizing Netscape - Preferences |
| Styles |
| Fonts and Colors |
| Mail and News Cache and Network |
| Applications and Directories |
| Images and Security |
| Security |
| Proxies |
| Helper Applications |
| Becoming Aware of Newer Versions |
| Deciding When to Get the Newer Versions |
| Activity: Staying Up-to-Date |
| Obtaining and Installing the Newer Versions |
| Appendices |
| Internet Service Providers (Courtesy of the Internet Society) / Appendix A： |
| TCP/IP Background / Appendix B： |
| The TCP/IP Program |
| What TCP Does |
| What IP Does |
| Internet Addresses |
| Internet Names |
| Domain Nameservers |
| An Internet Gateway or Provider Connection |
| SLIP and PPP |
| Downloading and Installing win32s Software / Appendix C： |
| About the Authors |
| Dedication |
| Acknowledgments |
| Installing the Hands-On Netscape CD- ROM |
| Installation |
| Netscape Video Tutorials |
