Navigate Between Pages
This page is about navigating in context - following hypertext links and using the Back and Forward buttons on the Tool Bar. Internet Explorer also keeps a History of the pages you have seen.
Hypertext Links
Hypertext links are what the World Wide Web is all about. Clicking on these hot links when the mouse hand appears will start you on a multimedia journey that can take you anywhere in the world. Links are normally underlined and in the colour blue. When you pass the cursor over a hypertext link, the mouse arrow transforms to a hand with pointing finger. Hypertext links are often embedded in an image. If a hand appears when you point the mouse at the image, there is an embedded hypertext link in the image.
Whenever you see a hand, there is a link.
Point the mouse arrow at hypertext link, see the hand and click the mouse button once. The next page will have a quotation from Growing Up Digital by Don Tapscott.
NOTE - that on your return to this page, the hypertext link should be a different colour. This is to remind you that you have "been there, done that ". There is a History that keeps a record of where you have been, usually for 20 days. You can adjust this by clicking on Tools in the menubar and selecting Internet Options - General.
Pages and Frames
Content on the Web can be presented in single, whole pages between which you can move back and forward, or as a set of pages forming a "framed" view. This tutorial is an example of a document made up of framed views: titles of the sections are listed on the left and the content is on the right. Some sites have web pages with three or four frames; one at the top, another at the bottom, and two in the middle!
The Back and Forward Buttons
The Back and Forward buttons are the standard way to move between pages, whether or not they are in frames. If you click on the down arrow between the Back and Forward buttons, you will see a list of the most recent Web pages you have viewed. Click on one for a quick return.
Click on the Back button in the Tool bar - then return to this page with Forward.
History of where you have been
Explorer keeps track of the pages you have visited in the current session. You may view the names of these pages by clicking on the History button in the Toolbar. A click on an earlier page will return you to that display. (It works in a similar way as the down arrow between the Back and Forward buttons.)
Explorer also keeps a history over several days of sites you have visited. See Cache in on History.
Home
 Lastly, you can always go Home. The Home button on the Tool bar returns you to the page that has been setup as your start-up (or home) page. The DefaultStart Page is the Microsoft Network at http://www.msn.com/. You can change this through Tools - Internet Options - General.
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Where to next?
Start going to places on the World-Wide Web. Click on Go Places.