Welcome to Somerset College
Internal Network World Wide Web (WWW) pages

Internet Courses:
Course summary and timetable

• Course 1 : About the Internet
• Browsing the World Wide Web
  1. Session 2.1: Browsing the web
  2. Session 2.2: Interacting with the web
  3. Session 2.3: Bookmarks

• Creating World Wide Web Pages
  1. Introduction Basic Tools and formatting.
  2. Linking to Images, names and other pages
  3. Publishing pages on the World Wide Web

Contents of this page:

• Access to the real World Wide Web (if access is turned on!)
• Learn how to use the Netscape Program
• Learn how to make your own Web pages
• If this is the First page you are seeing then you are not on the Internet, you are only on the school's internal network, however you are using the same program (Netscape) as is used to actually surf the internet.

  If interent access is on, then clicking here will get you to our World Wide Web home page, otherwise you'll get an error!.

  To get to the copy of all our web pages as they appear on the internet on our internal school network, click here

  Getting around

  (AKA surfing or webbing) Just click on text that looks like this, it is a "Hypertext Link" (or just "Link"), to navigate between pages.

  There are some links which go to a mail box. If you are not actually on the internet, there is no point in sending the mail message (it will go nowhere), however you can see the email format internet address (person@computer.type.country)

  Learning to Use Netscape

  There is a Learning to produce WWW pages

One word of warning though, all HTML documents are "TEXT" files, not Word, not ClarisWorks. However EVERY Word processing program has an option save documents as Text files, so a simple one, such as the one Netscape is set to use when you view a source document, is adequate.

WWW pages can contain pictures, these must be in Compuserve GIF format. If you use Adobe Photoshop to scan or edit pictures and then change them to "Indexed colour" format... (its in one of the menus... just look) you can save them as GIF files, there is also a GIF converter program. We can also use our electronic camera to feed images straight into the computer. Another word of warning: Pictures take a lot of memory, so the smaller the file the better as large files take a long time to download over a phone line on the internet, people are more likely to get bored waiting for it to arrive and move on.

Make your own "Home page"

If you make a quality home page...

• Interesting to other people
• Small !!
• With links to other pages of interest to you on the internet

How to get an Internet Account

• There is a text only view of the internet available to you if you join up with the Nexus service. This is relatively cheap and you can access it using the most basic computer and communications program.
  
• Join a commercial service provider. If you have a Windows capable or modern Macintosh computer (You will need lots of memory for either) and a fast modem (14400 baud or better) then you can make cost effective use of the online time.
  
• Get together with some friends and buy one account. You can all connect to the internet at the same time even though you'll have to use the same name and password.

When you do get a connection you can email all and sundry, lots of people use this as a regular way to communicate. Why not design your own keyboard characters, they can help you to express yourself on email. For example [:{ or :) or ; ) or (:-) or for four eyes (8^) (hint look sideways at them!)

Click here to go to the Somerset Home page

This page was created on 21 February 1995
and last Updated 3 August 1995
Bill Taylor : btaylor@onthenet.com.au