How To Get On The Internet

First, you have to connect to your ISP with your phone line. This connection is a dial up connection.

You then proceed to your ‘Start’ menu. See the START button in the lower left corner of your desktop. Click on Start, when that menu opens click on INTERNET EXPLORER or the icon with the big blue E.

Internet Explorer opens to a ‘home page’. It may or may not be of your choice. However, it is a starting place. I have made my own of my favorite sites. It is the example we will use.

If you see an address on TV or in a magazine that you would like to visit, you have to type the address in the address bar. This is process to do write in your address.

See the line that says ‘Address’? We click anywhere in that line. Clicking changes the currant address to a color. Then we just start typing the address. You do not have to type the proper address, http://www.royeli.com  www.royeli.com or is sufficient. After writing the address, push ‘Enter’. The web page you typed will open shortly.

If you receive an email with the web address in any color, usually blue, and underlined, it is a working web address. Click on the address to open the web page. There also can be addresses within web pages. Click on these addresses to open the web page.

To go back to the page you came from click on the back arrow.

You may want to visit a page the page you just came from. Click on the forward arrow.

There are times when you decide you did not want to go to an address as bad as you thought you did, to stop the page from downloading click on the red ‘x’.

On occasion, a page needs to be refreshed. For example, if you are watching weather radar page the information gets old. We refresh it this way.

To go back to your ‘start’ page click the ‘house’ or ‘home’ icon.

When you want to go to a site, you had visited earlier, click the ‘history’ button. The history button will take you back to as many days as you save in your history file, such as today, last week, or last month.

I think this covers the basics of how to use Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer will do many other things for you. We will cover them in another 'How To'.