Navigating Within a Web Page
There are elements of
web Pages that also allows users to navigate
within a Web site.
The most important of these is the hyperlink.
A hyperlink will take a user from one
web page to another. The Web page can be within
the same Web site or it can be at another Web site.
Links can take on many forms. The most
common form is the text link.
One way to tell whether
text or images are links is to move the cursor over the text or image. If the cursor turns into a hand then the text/ image
is a link.
Web Institute for Teachers
To go
to the Web Institute for Teachers home
page, click on the above text. Technically, any text can be a link, but man
web designers use the convention of making link text blue and underlined
Another common feature is to make an image or picture a link.
Click on the
Web Institute for Teachers logo to go to the WIT home page for 2003.
When navigating, knowledge of what buttons are available for use at any particular
time can be very useful. When using the buttons if a button is "unlit"
it means that the function is unavailable at that time. For instance,
if the back button is "unlit, pale or transparent" you won't be able
to go back. If the print button is not "lit" you won't be able to print
that page.
TASK: Go to the
following Web site and answer these questions.
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Go
to the Library of Congress’s American Memory Web site by entering the following
URL (Web address) in the address box: http://memory.loc.gov
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What
is the American Memory project?
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Click
on the Learning Page link.
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What
is the URL (Web address) of the web page to which you are taken?
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Click
on the Lesson Plan link.
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Explore
the links within the Lesson Plan’s index.
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Give
the titles of two lessons in the Lesson Plan index.
Proceed to Resources