Web Browsing In Class Exercises

Dr. David R. Burgess
Rivier College

  1. Turn on the computer and the monitor and then logon.
  2. Start Netscape Communicator (double click on the icon).
  3. What is the URL for the page that you are now looking at?
  4. Go to Edit/Preferences and change the Home Page Location to http://www.rivier.edu (if it isn't already).
  5. Click on Home. What is the URL now?
  6. Click on Academics. What is the URL now? Click on Undergraduate Degree Programs. URL? Click on Chemistry. What is different about this URL?
  7. Click on Internet Communications. What happened to the URL this time that is different from before?
  8. Bookmark the Internet Communications homepage.
  9. Change the Location to http://www.whitehouse.gov using the Location box.
  10. Explore this site for five minutes. Be sure to use the Back button at least once and observe what happens.
  11. Return to the Internet Communications homepage using the bookmark that was previously made.
  12. Use File/Open Page to change the location to http://www.tchg.com/tt/scilinks.htm
  13. What is the name of the current document? What directory is it in? What is the name of this web site?
  14. Click on the banner. What is the name of this document?
  15. Click on one of the down arrows and then use Edit/Find in Frame to locate the word "Connecticut".
  16. Click on the Back button. Where did you go?
  17. Click on the Forward button. Where are you now?
  18. Click on The Teaching Tank banner. What is the name of the current document? What directory is it in?
  19. Click on Go at the top of the screen and choose (click on) Internet Communications Homepage.
  20. Click on Web Browsing. Read this page and work through the exercises at the bottom until the rest of the class is ready to move on.
You can e-mail Dr. Burgess at dburgess@rivier.edu.