What's a Home page?

Just as your television set always shows some channel when you turn it on, your Web browser automatically displays a certain portion of the ever running internet when loaded.

The first Web page you see a Web browser comes to life is called your Homepage. Your browser's home page is simply a Web page that always appears whenever the browser is first loaded. Its always the same Web site.

A Web site's Home page, however, is a little different. It's like the cover of a magazine that lists contents. Whenever you jump to a new Web site, you usually jump to that page's Home page. From there, you can move around the internet, searching for topics by looking in indexes or simply pointing and clicking from topic to topic.

The first way is the easiest. Look for a page's links - highlighted words or picture. Buttons won't help if a friend gives you a napkin with a cool Web page's address written on it, however. In that case, you need to type the Web site's address yourself. That's fairly easy, as long as you don't misspell anything. 

For example: http://www.homepage.tripod.com remember you must put this in the toolbar. 

Learning About the Internet and the Web...

The internet is essentially a large number of connected computers. A computers on the internet can be located anywhere in the world, so you can communicate with someone over the internet no matter where that person lives.

The World Wide Web is the graphical, multimedia portion of the internet. To view files on the Web, you need Web Browsing software. You sure this software to view different locations on the Web, which are known as Web pages. A group of Web pages is Web Site. The first page of a web site is often called the Home Page.

Just each household in the world has a unique address, each Web page in the world has a unique Internet Address, sometimes called URL. For example, the Internet address of the this site.

http://www.homepage.tripod.com

You can browse Web pages - or "surf the net" - in several ways. You can open any Web page by typing its address box of your Web browsing software. And when you're viewing a Web page, you can navigate the internet by clicking links - underlined text or special pictures that, when clicked, cause you to jump to another Web page. When you move the mouse pointer over the a link, the mouse pointers changes to a hand. When you click a link, another Web page appears. You can also use toolbar buttons to move between Web page.

To learn more about the internet and how to move around Web pages, take this Web site as your daily reference http://www.homepage.tripod.com.