USING THE AQUA TITLE BAR
(at top of each web page)
Use the Picture Icons and Text as Shortcuts to Key Web Sites.
(from left to right)
- Click on the left (purple) "surfing" icon: for Super Surfing the World Wide Web.
- Click on the "Picture Surfing Web Sites" text to return to the Home Page
(www.PictureSurfing.com).
- Click on the right (red) "surfing" icon : to surf the Rest of the Internet (beyond the Web).
USING THE MAIN, DARK BLUE PART OF WEB PAGE
Shortcuts: On the Home Page Only
- Click on the little house or the text that says "Home Page" to jump down to the main menu for Picture Surfing Web Sites and begin surfing the web.
- The text that says "Home Page" goes to main menu.
- Click on the Blue usher icon in the upper right-hand corner to visit the Welcome and Introduction Page. This is the best place to begin; it leads to a web site tour and other helpful pages.
- Click on the boy floating with the life preserver to visit the Help Center; there are many categories of useful help on that site.
Tips for All Picture Surfing Web Sites Pages
- Click on the large upper right-hand corner icon (except on the home page) to jump down to the menu of web sites. This provides time savings and convenience: You don't have to scroll down.
- Click on the large upper left-hand corner icon to go to a related web page;
for example, the icon may provide you with a convenient shortcut to the (context) related part of the help center or to the previous menu of web sites - one level up)
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Navigation Buttons (white icons on a black background within a round, blue frame): use the buttons on the Picture Surfing Web Sites Navigation Bars (top and bottom of page) to quickly and easily go to frequently visited web sites such as the Help Center, the Search Page, to send an email, go to the top of the current page, etc.
- Text Links in the dark-blue part of web page, usually black, underlined text, are often self-explanatory and normally serve as a shortcut to the menu of web sites on the current page.
TIPS FOR ANYWHERE ON
PICTURE SURFING WEB SITES
Visit a New Web Site Without Closing Picture Surfing Web Sites
If you would like to keep a Picture Surfing Web Sites page open while you temporarily visit another web site, there is an easy solution if you have a mouse or equivalent pointing device with at least two "buttons". This is a great way to surf because it saves you time and makes it easy to return to Picture Surfing Web Sites.
Point, Click with Left Button, then with Right Button.
From a Picture Surfing Web Sites web page, point (e.g., with your mouse pointer) at the web site you want to visit, and open the alternate menu (usually - right click). Most commonly, with a right-handed mouse, you open the alternate menu by clicking the right button on the mouse while pointing at a link such as a picture (icon) link. When using relatively current versions of the most common web browser software programs such as Netscape Communicator or Microsoft Internet Explorer, in the alternate menu, you will see a menu choice called "open [link] in a new window". Now use your left "mouse" button and click on this menu choice.
You are Speed Surfing Now.
If this is your first time, try not to get too flustered if it seems difficult to coordinate the click. Rest assured that most people can do this maneuver much easier after a little practice. You may soon agree that this little maneuver is very valuable because it can save you from having to hit the back button and waiting while the original "links" page is reloaded again and again throughout your surfing session. It also allows you to open and start loading several pages at once from an original page if your internet connection is slow or you are loading large pages. You can relax and enjoy looking at the first page while the other pages are loading in the background. Then you will really be "speed surfing". One word of caution though: don't open too many web pages at once, you may run out of resources, lock up your system and have to restart your computer. Oh, do you know how to get back to that original web page?
Getting Back to Your Home Base.
Usually, if you just close the new (second) web page, the original web page, will just pop back into your view. If not, or if you want to keep both web pages available, here are a few ways to do it. Your computer system may work differently, but here are common ways to do it. Look for the long narrow bar that is usually "docked" along the bottom of your monitor screen. This is called the taskbar: it is the one containing the Start button. If you moved it, it could be at the top or the side of your screen also. Normally, you will see a little rectangle (or several)on the taskbar that represents each of the different web pages (or other window views) that are active but not necessarily visible. Just click on the one you want to go to and usually that will bring it forward into your view. With some operating systems, you can also try holding down the "Alt" key and pressing the "Tab" key each time you want to move to the next window view. Let go of the keys to see the window
Navigation Arrows
- Use the Forward and Back Arrow buttons on your web browser program to quickly return to the last few web pages you visited by clicking with your mouse. The browser tracks where you have gone (clicked to) recently and stores those locations whether they are on a different web page or different locations on the same web page.
- You can also use the arrows to return to the last few locations you clicked to within your current page. For example, if you started at the top of the page, clicked to the middle and then clicked to the bottom of the page, clicking the back arrow once would bring you back to the middle of the page. Clicking the back arrow again would bring you to the top of the page.
Surfing the Net Without a Mouse
- If your hand or arm is tired from using a mouse or you are otherwise unable to use a mouse, you may want to try using the "Tab" key to surf the net. Each time you hit the tab key, you should move to the next potential link on the Picture Surfing Web Sites web site that you are viewing. You may have to look closely until you learn how to recognize which link is highlighted.
- Depress and hold the "Shift" key while you hit the "Tab" key to go backwards.
- When you reach the link you want to visit, just depress the "Enter" key go there - it is the same as normal (left) clicking on the link.
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