Navigating through the WWW


Hyper-Text Links

When you are visiting a web page, there are special pieces of text called hyper-text links that when you click on them they link you to another web page. You can also have images, graphics or parts of images that also link to other web-pages when you click on them. This is one way you can navigate through WWW space.
Here is a hyper-text link. Click on it tp go to IBM's page.
IBM's WWW homepage


Back, Forward, Home

There are three buttons common to most all browsers and they are defined below:
  • Back OR Left Arrow Indicates return to previously viewed webpage.
  • Forward OR Right Arrow Indicates go to web-page initially viewed right after current page.
  • Home When you hit this button it always goes to the same webpage defined as your browser's homepage (see Options menu to set this).



Go Menu

Some browsers have a "Go" menu that beside having the Back, Forward and Home options, also, list in order the most recently visited homepages and you can simply select one to return to it. Thus, you do not have to keep hitting the Back or Forward buttons to reach it.

Try it now!

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