Browser Parts- I

Navigator makes it possible for you to view information at Internet sites. Right now, you are reading a Web page using Netscape Navigator (Netscape Communicator's Web browser) through a window on your desktop.

Desktop | The Window | The Web Page | Control Panel

Desktop

Desktop is what you see when your computer powers up and displays little icons representing applications on your computer. My Computer is an icon on the desktop, and so is Netscape Communicator.

The Window

Netscape Navigator is your control panel for navigating the Internet. The software acts as a viewer to interpret and display the pages and images you find on the World-Wide Web. With help from video and sound software, Navigator will also make the Web pages sing and dance.

The usual Windows features apply for scrolling up and down the page (scroll bar at the right), changing the size of your open window (maximize and minimize buttons), and closing the program.

The Web Page

The page you are reading is a Web document. This is a body of text that has been marked up with HTML - Hypertext Markup Language to give it its formatting and make the links. Netscape interprets these HTML tags to present a page of nicely formatted and illustrated text.

Netscape Navigator Control Panel

The Navigator control panel consists of tool buttons and bars at the top, a scroll bar on the right side, and a progress bar at the bottom. This page will describe what you see at the top of the browser. The next page will look to the right and the bottom.

The Top

Look at the very top part of your screen and identify the following areas.

1. Title Bar

 

2. Menu Bar

Would you like to see at a glance everything you can do with Netscape? Point the mouse arrow at File on the Menu Bar and hold down the left button. Read the drop-down menu. Repeat for all the other items.

 

3. Navigation Toolbar

Do you prefer shortcuts? The Tool Bar gives quick access to the most frequently needed functions: go Back a page, move Forward a page, go Home to your start-up page, Print a page, Stop downloading a page.


4. Location Toolbar

Where are you? The location toolbar displays the address of the document you are reading. The address is called a URL - pronounced "you-are-ell", or Uniform Resource Locator. You can enter new URLs in this space to take you to new places. When you do that, Navigator flips to Go To.

The location toolbar also provides a button for accessing your list of bookmarks. 


5. Personal Toolbar