The Website

Accessing the website using its Address

• Access www.wikipedia.org
• Acess www.monitor.co.ug
Accessing website using link from Search Engines

• SEARCH ENGINES;
GOOGLE.COM, MSN.COM,
YAHOO.COM, ASK.COM
• SEARCH FOR TUTORIAL
POINT
 Parts of a website
• Home page
• Links
• Menu bar
• Sitemap (is a list of pages of a web
site accessible to crawlers or users.)
 Network protocols
• www (world wide web)
• Http (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)
• Https (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure)
•M
Types of web extensions
• HTML
• ASPX
• Coldfusion. cfm.
 Downloading information from a
website/ webpage
• Downloading pictures from the internet
• Search words should be very precise.
• Search for Mother Majeri, iMac, Sony Home
theatre system and wedding dress.
• Download and save the pictures as .jpeg
files to your computer.
 Doing research on the internet
• How to find out more information about anything.
• Type the item name in the search engine. Open
web-links of popular sites such as wikipeadia.com
• Open other links in other tabs and read through.
Copy and paste content to a word document.
Read through and re-write in your own words and
how you understood it.
 Research topics
• iMac
• BMW car company
• Mercedes Benz
• Iraq
• London
• Oliver Twist
Downloading information in form
of files
• DOWNLOAD A FAVORITE UGANDAN SONG
FROM HOWWE.BIZ AS MP3.
• DOWNLOAD A DOCUMENT ABOUT
POLLINATION AS .DOC FILE
• DONWLOAD A PRESENTATION ABOUT
GLOBAL WARMING AS .PPT FILE
 Downloading information
as files
• Download an e-book Romeo and
Juliet as .pdf (portable document
format)
• Download a video about ‘How to
plant a tree’ as .mp4 or .mkv file
Advantages and disadvantages
of using the internet
• Search for information about the
above topic
• Copy the text to a microsoft Word
document and save it as Assignment
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