GNVQ ICT - Intermediate
Unit 10 - Networks and Communications
Hyperlinks
on the level above: [Home Page for Unit 10]
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GNVQ ICT - Intermediate Unit 10 - Networks and Communications
Hyperlinks
on the level above: [Home Page for Unit 10]
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Hyperlinks: On this level:
On the level below:
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World Wide Web (WWW) To access and use the WWW
“web browser” software is needed. Most
popular are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator – though other
browsers are also available. These
are usually “free” software applications.
Using Browser Software When a useful website is found it is important to the user that it can be visited again without carrying out long searches.
Forward and Back buttons:
When following hyperlinks between web pages the user may wish
to return to an earlier website – this is possible using the “back” button
to go backwards along the chain of sites visited.
It is then History:
Each website visited will be stored in the “history” listing in the
browser software – this can be set to store the URLs automatically for future
use. Cookies:
These are tiny applications that are downloaded automatically to the
user’s computer when they visit certain websites.
They can be useful – for example when a user logs on to a site they
visit regularly the time taken to load the page can be much shorter as the
cookie contains information about the layout of the files etc.
However cookies can also contain “spyware” and “adware” –
explained here.
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Once
online the user carefully enters the URL (Universal Resource Locator) of the web
page they wish to look at into the address bar at the top of the browser window
– after a few moments (see above for connection speeds) the required page is
displayed for the user.
Bookmarks
& Favourites:
also possible
for them to go forward again along the chain.