For a Beginner:
Get Your Browser Into Use...Quickly!
The short guide below will ensure that Internet users get the most from a web browser. The guide deals with the basic aspects of using a browser and surfing the Internet. It can be downloaded here and copied freely to be used when learning the tools.
The guide is written so that it is suitable for novices, seniors and children alike...for any home user who wants to quickly learn the basic tools.
The guide exists in two versions: one to be used with Mozilla Firefox and one to be used with Internet Explorer 6.
A free download: Browser Tutorial using Firefox
(In PDF Format; 1.23 MB)
A free download: Browser Tutorial using IE6
(In PDF Format; 1.18 MB)
You can view the chapters in HTML format here.
Browsers and Nets
The web browser used to be seen as a tool whose primary use is to view web pages over the Internet. Indeed, that is its most common use today. But Internet technology and wireless techniques are such that they enable the web browser to achieve much more than viewing web pages on the Internet using an ordinary PC.
There are already several kinds of 'nets': the Internet, different kinds of extranets and intranets. In each case a tool is required to use the services that the net offers; that tool is a web browser or simply a browser. The name of the browser is much less important than techniques which apply to it. And the basic techniques are common to all web browsers.
However, there are applications which are customized for a particular company and which have as a user interface a web browser, even though the application itself has nothing to do with the concept of 'surfing the Internet'. It is the technology of the net era which is used here and different uses of it are appearing on a regular basis.
This direction of technical evolution gives reasons for learning to use the interface of the net era: a browser.
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