Wednesday, July 23, 2008   

     TRAINING CLASSES -- LEARNING TO NAVIGATE                                              Example One

Welcome!  Here you can learn how to navigate....which means " move around on web pages."   There are three primary ways --- instructions and a practice area for each follow.

.A. Scrolling Using the Page Down and Page Up keys.

1. On your keyboard, find  the Page Down Key  -- See Figure 1.  This will cause the screen to scroll down to show you the next screen of data.  Press Page Down key now.

Figure 1.  The Page Down key is in the middle bank of keys on your keyboard, in the second section down, as shown at right. The Page Up key is just above it

Good!  You used the Page Down key to display the next screen of data. Notice that a portion of what was at the bottom of  the previous screen, now appears at the top, for continuity.

2. After reading this step, press the Page Up Key  -- it will show you the previous screen of data. From there, press the Page Down Key again to come back here and continue with Step 3. 

3. You have just learned how to scroll up and down using the keyboard. Continue with B.

B. Scrolling Using the Mouse.

There is another way to scroll, using the mouse and the vertical scroll bar.  The vertical scroll bar is the gray column at the right edge of this window.  .Here's how. 

1. Move your mouse pointer over the darker gray rectangle.  

2. Then left-click and, while holding the mouse button down , drag the mouse up or down. 

3. Release the mouse button when the page is positioned the way you want.

NOTE 1:  Some people have a scroll wheel on their mouse, between the two buttons.  Rolling this up and down will also scroll the page up and down.

NOTE 2:  If the contents of a page are too wide to fit within the screen, a horizontal scroll bar will appear at the bottom of the window, which you use in the same fashion to scroll the page right and left.

C. Using Links.

All the links in the Training Information section of Omni Internet's website are easy to find...they are preceded by an arrowhead  

Sometimes a link will take you to another location on the same web page.  More commonly,  a link will take you to another web page -- often on the same website...but sometimes to another website entirely.. 

Example One -- A Link Which Jumps You Elsewhere on the Page. 

1.      After reading this step, Click on the "Top" link below to go to the top of this page.  

There, you will find another link called "Example One" at the top right, in the black title bar. It will return you to this example.

Back to:   Top                                        

Now you have practiced using an in-page link.  

Example Two -- A Link Which Jumps to Another Webpage. 

This example  will take you to another page -- back to the Training Class information -- ending this tutorial.  But before you go ... here's a hint on how to recognize links. 

Though the links on all these training pages are preceded by an arrowhead -- in other places and on other sites, they are not. So how do you know something is a link? 

Often  a link is a few words of colored, underlined text, i.e., pretend link.   Sometimes it is a graphic, a picture of something or a logo.  See right.

Whether links are easy to recognize visually or not, there is a simple way to identify them. Move your mouse pointer around the screen. If the mouse pointer changes s hape into a pointing hand that is a link.  (see picture below right)

NOTE: You can only activate (click) a link when the hand is showing. If you move your mouse pointer a bit, causing the hand to change back to an arrow, your click won't work.

1. Without clicking, move your mouse pointer over the link below  -- see the hand?

2. Click the link below to return to Training Classes.

          Back to:    Training  to continue reading about the training classes. 

Thank you for taking this tutorial.

We hope it makes you more comfortable navigating web pages.