Internet Explorer

Using the World Wide Web (which we’ll just call the Web from now on) is actually pretty
straightforward, but needs a special application, called a Web Browser, which lets you
browse the web (or, to put it another way, it’s a special viewer that lets you view web pages).
There are several, but the most popular are Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and
Mozilla Firefox. They all do roughly the same type of thing: they display pieces of
information on the Web (which are called web pages) in a graphical fashion. The University
supports Internet Explorer (IE) on its machines so that’s what we’ll use. Other browsers
you might come across are Netscape Navigator, Opera, Mozilla, Lynx etc.
You will already be familiar with some of the standard menus at the top of the screen (File,
Edit, View, etc.). Within IE there are additional toolbars at the top of the window, which are
used for navigating around the World Wide Web and for frequently used menu items.
Toolbars and Menus
You’ve already seen three of the buttons on the toolbar at the top of the window; the ones
which take you Back, Forward, and Home. What other buttons do we have?