Unit 2: Internet and Collaboration

Basic Browser Tools - Resizing and closing Buttons

As covered in Common Terminology, these buttons allow a user to change the size of a browser window.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

Cassandra must find new products for the camping department of her store. She is about to conduct a Google search for the most current camping equipment trends. She asks you how she should type in her search. What would you advise her to type?

Best camping gear 2017

Web Browser

Is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web (also known as the internet or the Net).

Kaleb just started managing a bath department at a large big box store and is not familiar with the different types of bedding companies and brands. The former bath department manager Sanje, told him the fastest way to learn was a web search. Kaleb starts up his computer to get ready to run a search. What are the steps he takes to find out more about bedding companies?

Open Chrome Browser> Type in Bing.com> In Bing search bar search bedding companies

Basic Browser Tools - New Tab Button

Opens a new page in the same window when selected. This option allows for many websites to be open but contained within one main window frame. This keeps the desktop from being cluttered with too many open windows.

(SEROs)

The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as search engine results pages

Basic Browser Tools - Arrow buttons

These two arrows navigate the browser back (the left arrow) to a previously viewed webpage or forward (the right arrow) to more currently viewed webpages. These buttons can be pushed more than once to cause the browser to go back or forward further to web pages rendered in a browser session's history.

Basic Browser Tools - Refresh Button

This button reloads a webpage. Refreshing will update the information on a webpage if it has changed. If a webpage has not completely loaded, refreshing will reload the page so that it completely renders on the screen.

Basic Browser Tools - Address Bar

This text field on a browser that identifies the webpage currently being viewed in a browser window. All address bars are located at the top of the browser window. A user can type in a new address to navigate to a new webpage. Each website on the internet is reached by a web address known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that references a specific location on the internet. Type a URL into the address bar of a browser, then press the Enter (Return) key on the keyboard to make the browser load the webpage associated with the URL. As browsers have gotten more sophisticated, most do not require for http:// or even the www to be typed in order for the webpage to be discovered.

Web Search Engine

a software system designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

A hyperlink (also called a link)

is a section of text, an image, graphic or icon that is linked to a specific webpage, image, file or object. This is commonly seen in a browser as text, often a blue color.

The general manager of the department store has given you the task to hunt down a reputable cleaning service for the store. She wants you to show her the reasons why you recommend one cleaning service company over another in a presentation. Your first step is to search for cleaning companies and then discover what type of reputation they have. What of the following searches would be the most effective way to search for this information for your presentation?

Conduct an online search through Bing.com and type in retail store cleaning companies to start your search process

Basic Browser Tools - Menu Button

In Chrome, the menu is indicated by three vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser window (Edge uses three horizontal dots; Firefox uses three stacked horizontal lines). Once the menu button is selected a dropdown menu will appear.