How do these Modules Work?
Easy! Each module is a set of pages that you read through just like a book.
It is made up of a set of chapters, has references to other sections, and exercises to check how you're going.
What to look for.
This page, and all the others in these Modules, are written in a special language designed for your Web Browser to read. (The Web Browser is the programme you use to access and view information on the Internet). When you opened this page for the first time on your computer, it automatically opened your preferred Web Browser. It did NOT, however, access the Internet. The Modules exist on your Hard Drive or disk, and so don't need to make a connection. (More on that latter).
This special language is called HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML) and it uses information 'tags' to make the text on your screen look certain ways. For example, the bold type, uses one tag, and italic type uses another.
More importantly, however, HTML lets you do things that normal word processors cannot, and this is the power of the language, and what makes this tutorial so easy to navigate.
When you see text that looks like this, use your mouse to click once on the item, and it will take you to another location. This location may be within the page, on another page, or even to a site on the Internet. Click on the word this (in the text above) now. This is 'hotspot' interactive technology at work.
There will be blue-rimmed items on these pages (e.g. the Made With Macintosh logo below). If you click on these items, they will connect your browser to the Internet, and contact the Internet addresses on your behalf.
You will also find Image Maps, which are pictures that have areas that are designed to do things when your mouse pointer is over them. You can tell what these parts of pictures will do by looking at the dialogue box at the bottom of your browser (near the scroll arrows). Every time you pass your mouse pointer over something that is a 'link' or an 'anchor', what it is linked or anchored to will appeared in this box.
That about wraps it up for the directions. Use the mouse to click on the module you want to do.
Internet Modules
InterMod 1 Starting Out
InterMod 2 Now You're Connected
