| Tips.................................................................................................................
Tips |
| BROWSERS |
| Give your COOKIES.TXT
file a Read-Only attribute, sites won't be able to write to it; there
won't be any error messages, and the sites will think they are writing to it successfully. |
| If you can't find
http://www.anysite.com/pages/missing.html, try the parent directory,
http://www.anysite.com/pages, and see if you can link to it from there. If not, drop back
to http://www.anysite.com. |
| When you type a URL, just start it with www.
Your browser will automatically fill in http://. |
| Use the keyboard rather than your mouse
to cruise the Web more quickly. Press the Tab key to move from link to
link, even within image maps, and press Enter to click on a link. Press Ctrl+B
to organize your favorite bookmarks. |
| To create a shortcut to the current
page: Just right-click on the page and select Create Shortcut. You can also cerate
shortcuts by dragging and dropping Web links directly to your desktop. |
| Right-click on the frame where you want
to retrace your steps, then select "Back " in frame. |
| Right-click on a link and select
"Open in New Window." This will open the page in a new Navigator
window, allowing you to browse in your original window while waiting for pages to download
to the other. |
| Unless the author codes a specific
dimension in pixels into a frames-based page, you can resize the frames to your liking.
Position your cursor over a frame's boundary. If the cursor changes to a two-headed arrow,
you can drag and resize the frames. |
| You can select a large block of text by
clicking and dragging to highlight it - or you can left-click at the beginning of the
passage, release the mouse button, then scroll down to the end of the desired text.
Left-click again while holding the Shift key. |
| You can save a page or graphic from the
Web to your local drive. Right-click on it and select "Save Picture
As...,"
then pick a location on your drive to store it. |
| If you're looking for a particular word
or phrase on a Web page, you can find it fast by pressing Ctr+F to bring
up a search dialog box. |
WEB UPDATE DISPLAY. You can find out when a Website was last
updated by entering the following in the address/location bar:
javascript:alert(document.lastModified) |
| Search
Engines |
| Don't use a single word in a search
query or the search will turn up everything under the sun - most of it useless. search for
incontext phrases for more on-target results. Usually, you can search for an exact match
to a text string when you enclose it with quotation marks. Check your
engine's instructions for the most accurate details. |
| Avoid common "spamdex" terms -
words that Web site marketers often add into hidden parts of a page's HTML coding. This is
done so that these pages wind up on the top of query results lists and get numerous hits.
spamdex terms include sex, free, shareware, Web and Windows. |
