Internet Explorer 8 Basics
Basic Browsing Techniques
- Setting a home (i.e. opening) page
- Displaying a specific web page
- Switching between tabs
- Quick Tabs
- Tab List
- Stopping a page downloading
- What is web page refreshing?
- Refreshing a page download
- Displaying help information
Using Internet Explorer 8
- Hiding or displaying toolbars
- Revisiting URLs
- History
Navigating through Web Pages
- Navigating through Web sites
- Going directly to a Web page
- Back and Forward button
- Visiting the Home Page
Searching the Web
- Search Engine Web sites
- Using keywords and phrases
- Don't use a single search word!
- Searching using specific words
- Searching using an exact phrase
- Searching by excluding a word(s)
- Searching by date
- Searching by file format
- Online encyclopedias & dictionaries
Favorites
- Adding favorites.
- Manipulating favorites
- Organizing favorites
Forms
- Using a web based form
Feeds
- What are feeds?
- Subscribing to feeds
Saving Files
- Copying a web image
- Saving a picture
- Copying a web
- Saving a web
- Downloading files
Printing Issues
- Previewing
- Setting up your page
- Changing page margins
- Printing a web page.
Internet Terminology
- World Wide Web vs. the Internet
- URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
- Hyperlink
- ISP (Internet Service Provider)
- Web sites and URLs
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
- Podcasts
Security Issues
- Internet security & password logons
- Risks associated with online activity
- Parental control options
- Viruses & Virus checkers
- Malware, Spyware, Worms & Trojans
- Spam
- Scareware
- Firewall
- Pop-Up blocking
- Internet cache
- Cookies
- Information Bar
- SmartScreen Filter
- Enabling SmartScreen Filter protection
- Parental Filtering
- Windows Update
- Protected sites
- Digital certificates
- Encryption
- Secure web sites and https.