General Advice for New Users

Disclaimer: This is not intended to be a complete web primer!

All Web browsers, regardless of what type of computer they run on, behave more or less the same. Basically, whenever you come across a word or words that are a different color and/or are underlined (like this), you can click the mouse on these words to go to a certain place. For example clicking on help brought you here, and clicking on Course Syllabus: (don't do this now!) takes you to the page with the course syllabus.

The various other tricks can be better explained by examining the help files available on whatever browser you're using. The best advice we can give you is to just try pressing a few of the links and following them around. You really can't break anything, so don't worry -- just explore. If this doesn't help, try asking for help from someone who does know what's going on. There's more than 90 people in this class, surely at least one of them knows what to do! If you're still having problems, come and talk to use and we'll try to help.

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Downloading Files

Disclaimer: This is not intended to be a complete guide to web downloading!

To download an image, simply click-and-hold on it with the mouse (or with the right mouse button for PC platforms). When you click-and-hold, a dialog box should pop-up and give you several options, one of which is to save the file. Choosing the Save this Image as... option will bring up a window which allows you to save the file to your local machine (the one you're sitting at).

Once you have the file on your computer, you can generally view it with several different programs. If you're at one of the student computer sites, simply double-click on the file and it should open up in one of many possible programs (JPEGView, GIFWatcher, and QuickGIF are common Mac programs, there are many IBM programs which do the same thing).

Once you're have the file open, just pick a local printer and choose Print... or Print Window from the File menu. We recommend that you use a laser printer, because a dot matrix printer may have trouble with these images. We also recommend you print with the "grayscale" option (which should be chosen automatically) as it will make things easier to read. Each of the programs listed above are Freeware or Shareware, so if you need a copy at home, they can be copied from any of the CCSO Sites.

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