Preliminaries

Goals

Spend half an hour

• Getting connected to local chat room
• Reviewing basic navigation in Netscape Communicator
• Navigating our course web pages

Chatting with IRC

We'll have mIRC running with a "secret" room #DilipsWWWClass

1. Dismiss the About window (with author's picture)
2. Specify name, email address, and nickname
3. Random US DALNet is fine (or choose another server) then connect
4. Problems with nickname (not unique)? Try /nick newname
5. /join #DilipsWWWClass (or Commands ... Join Channel) (note name starts with pound sign)
6. Maximize contained window
7. Click on 4th icon from left - channels folder (this is based on v 5.4.1)
8. Chat in our class channel; double click on user name on right to privately chat

Navigating in Netscape Communicator

• Anchors
• Going forward and back
• Bookmarks
• History list - Control-H
• "Borrowing" images
  • Right click on an image
  • Save as...
  • Also with screen backgrounds
  • View by dragging atop browser (or utilities like Paint Shop Pro or Quick View Plus)
  • Note linkware as in Moyra's Web Jewels and courtesy

Course Navigation

• Consider opening a new browser for work
• Home should be course home page; if not, set it
  • http://www.cs.unc.edu/~barman/presentations/classes/htmlintro/
  • Select above with mouse, Edit...Copy it, then in Communicator, Edit...Preferences and paste it
• Can always return home via home icon
• Follow links to course units, then Communicator home or home icon at bottom of page to return
• You can copy the course pages or just come back to http://www.cs.unc.edu/~barman/presentations/classes/htmlintro/

Created September 17, 1998

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