Navigating  Within a Web Page

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There are elements of web Pages that also allow users to Navigate within a Web site.

 
The most important of these is the  hyper link.  A hyper link 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 many 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. 

•     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
•       What is the American Memory project?
•       Click on the Learning Page link.
•       What is the URL (Web address) of the web page to which you are taken?
•       Click on the Lesson Plan link.
•       Explore the links within the Lesson Plan’s index.
•       Give the titles of two lessons in the Lesson Plan index.

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