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INFORMATION AND COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY GYAMFI SERIES
How To Browse Using Hyperlinks.
1. Open your web browser. Example Opera, Firefox and internet Explorer.
2. Type the web site address at the address bar. Example, www.ghana.edu.gh.
3. Press the enter key on the keyboard to open the Home page and wait for the page to
open.
4. Click on the hyperlink bearing the information you are looking for.

MANAGING WEB PAGES WHEN BROWSING THE INTERNET
Most web pages have dozens or even hundreds of links. To get from one page to another, click
any link. However, figuring out which things on a page are links is not always easy.
Links can be texts, images or a combination of both. Text links often appear as coloured and
underlined but link styles vary among websites.
Using the Back and Forward Button
As you go from page to page, the web browser keeps track of your trail. To get back to the
previous page, click the Back button several times to retrace your steps even further. After you
have clicked the Back button you can click the Forward button to go forward in the trail.

NOTE:
Minimize, maximize, restore and close button are used to manage webpages exactly as applied
in windows management.

ACCESSING INFORMATION USING WEBSITE
ADDRESS
A web address or URL, or the current page is displayed in the Address bar. A URL is composed
of several components. It begins with the protocol being used, in this case HTTP.
Following the protocol is a colon, forward slashes and then information that comprise the site
domain’s name.
The letters ‘WWW” or “W3” indicate that this page’s server is on the World Wide Web. Next,
after a period (.) is the name (sometimes abbreviated) of the organization that owns the server,
Microsoft. Following another period you will see the abbreviation ‘com’. This abbreviation
informs you that this site exists for commercial purposes.
You may be familiar with another domain name suffix such as “edu” for educational
institutions, “gov” for governmental offices, and ‘org’ for non-profit organizations. After the

domain name, you will find information pertaining to viewing including its file path and name.
Below shows a correct website address bar of a web browser.
http://www.iykejoe2014blog.wordpress.com
http://www.google.com.

FEATURES OF A WEBSITE ADDRESS
 Numbers
 Full stop
 Letters
 Slash(/, //)
 Questions mark (?)
 Colon (:)
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