Enhancing Your Web Experience
Goals
Spend about 45 minutes learning
- Tips to customize your browser
- How and why to choose not to download images
- About "cookies"
- What the "push" model is
Tips to customize your browser
- Edit ... Preferences
- Tired eyes? Change the font size (also try Control and either square bracket)
- Define your home page
- Clear history (at a public terminal)
- Running low on disk space? What is the "cache" and how to manage it
- Specify details from an ISP (POP3, SMTP, email address, NNTP host, ...)
- Deal with cookies ... but see below for a better way
- Big page with lots of text and you want to find the text positive attitude?
Edit ... Find in Page (Control-F)
- Save page to learn HTML (File ... Save As)
- Discussion groups (newsgroups)
Images
- Slow connection, text-based browsing session? Edit ... Preferences
and look under Advanced Preferences
- Can always "Reload" page with images on when you get to a page of interest
- Some images have "alt tag"
Cookies
- Privacy (note SHTTP)
- Tailored user experience; customer intimacy
- I use Cookie Pal
Push Model
- Web is pulling information
- Push: customized newspaper, real-time information
- Great application: PointCast
- I enjoy my Excite Channel daily newspaper
- Netscape and Microsoft have push technology
Created September 16, 1998
HTML by Dilip Barman,
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