Absolute beginners

 

If you are in the first year tutorial group (with Ros McCulloch) please click here.

The good news is, if you've got this far, you already know pretty well everything you need to know about using the Web. Anything that's blue and underlined is a link: click on it, and it will take you somewhere else. A button at the top of your browser called 'Back' will take you to the page you were previously at; the 'Go' pulldown menu (in Netscape) will show you where you've been, and let you revisit any of it. It can take a while for some pages to download, but think how long it would take you to get the equivalent information from a library. So if it does take a while, bepatient; don't think you've broken the computer. If you get a message saying the server cannot be contacted this usually means that as it were the line is busy: too many people are trying to get through. Try again later.

Other places to access the web, and printing web pages

A complete list of places where students can access the Web on campus, and where and how they can print out web pages, is here. Note: this is now (October 98) a year out of date. If you can update any of it for me, I would be very grateful.

The basics handout

The handout that I wrote that tells complete beginners how to use the Library computers in order to get to this page is here. Since you're here already, you won't need it, but someone else might want a printout.

What next?

• Well, you could let me know how you got here, and any problems that you had that others might find useful: click here to send me a message.
• If you want to browse my web site, go here first: it's an introduction to the site. After that, go to the home page, here, and browse around.
• Further afield? Go to my Useful Links page. This tells you how to do a number of things, the most important of which is searching the web for information. Once you can do that, you're away on your own. If you need interesting places to look at, try the Just Browsing section.
• And: enjoy! Remember: what you have in your hands, right at this moment, is the most extraordinary toy that has ever been invented.