Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 Courseware Outline

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 & the Internet

• Connecting to the Internet
• What is the Internet?
• What is a web server?
• The Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser
• The Internet Explorer program window
• The on-line web tutorial

Addresses, links & downloading

• Web sites and URLs
• Using hyper links
• Responding to an email link on a web page
• What is FTP?
• Beware of viruses - anti-virus programs
• Saving to disk
• Internet plug-ins
• What are java applets?
• What are java scripts?
• Downloading information from a web page
• Viewing & saving the code behind an Internet page - HTML

Searching the Internet

• Searching the web via Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Searching the Internet using Altavista
• Searching the Internet using Lycos
• Searching the Internet using go/Infoseek
• Searching the Internet using Excite
• Searching the Internet using Hotbot
• Searching the Internet using Web Crawler
• Searching the Internet using Yahoo
• Commonly used search engines

Email & newsgroups

• Using the address book
• Creating and sending emails
• Attached files
• Receiving emails
• What are newsgroups?
• Locating and subscribing to newsgroups
• Posting a message to a newsgroup

Favorites, security & customizing Explorer

• Favorites
• Customizing your options - general
• Customizing your options - security
• Customizing your options - contents
• Customizing your options - connection
• Customizing your options - programs
• Customizing your options - advanced

Internet Explorer 5 keyboard shortcuts