Surfing this site and the world wide web is, like anything else, simple when you know how. 

Navigation

The inspectors-on-line site has navigation buttons and also underlined text hyperlinks, these will take you from page to page or to a different place on the same page on our web site, or to a completely different web site somewhere else on the world wide web. Here are some examples:

-Navigation Buttons, these will  link you to different pages on our web site.

Top of page`  -Text hyperlink to take you from the bottom to the top of the page you are viewing.

News & Sport   -Text hyperlink to take you to new page. In this case a page where you will find links to sites giving you up to the minute news reports. 

www.footballunlimited.co.uk  -Text hyperlink to another web site.    

Try putting your mouse pointer over the different navigation links, you will see a change in the pointer (Depending on which browser you are using, i.e. Explorer or Netscape), and an address will appear in a window of your browser telling you the address of the page or web site you are linking to. One click on the hyperlink or navigation button will take you to the page or place it is linked to.

The back button is useful to take you back to the previous page however some web sites will prevent you from leaving via use of the back button.  In this instance you should view the browser memory by clicking on the arrow to the side of the web address box on your browser screen. Chose from the addresses in the memory to take you back to the previous address or wherever you want to go. Alternatively you can type the full address of the web site you want to go to, into the address box or chose an address from Favourites.

You can save the addresses of the sites you want to visit regularly in your browser memory. Simply click on the Favourites tab (on your browser menu bar), when you are actually on the site that you want to save.

If you intend to visit Inspectors-on-line regularly we hope you will add the site to your Favourites, why not click on Favourites now to save the address. It takes seconds and you will still be with us after completion .

To test your navigation skills click the web address link below and then find your way back to this page.

Searching the World Wide Web

To search for something on the World Wide Web or Internet, try using our Search Engines  link page . Chose one of the popular search engines there to find something of interest to you.  To make your search efficient there are some techniques you can use.

Remember your search instructions are going to a computer assisted by software not to a person so use a  library index approach to your search. 

A search using the word Book will probably give you thousands of web sites to look through and chose from but if you narrow the search you might get what you want quickly.

A search using the words Football Book  will give thousands of sites on Books, Football and Football Books from all over the world.

You can narrow the search to the U.K. either by including uk in the key word description or by choosing the .co.uk version of the search engine instead of .com, i.e. www.yahoo.co.uk

Use  + (plus sign) to include a word in a search.  To exclude a word use -(minus sign). Use of " " (inverted comas) will restrict the search to only sites that include all the words inside the inverted comas.

For example, to search for a book written by a football manager, try the following.

"bobby robson"   this will give you several sites including books, news items and other web site pages where Bobby Robson's name is mentioned.

or        

"book,ferguson+life"   this should get you access to sites that only offer or mention Alex Ferguson's book with the word 'life' in the title i.e. his book title - 'Managing My Life'.

The different search engines and browsers act differently so do not expect the same results from each. It is worth taking the tutorial that your search engine offers you if you experience difficulties in finding what you are looking for.

Note the Internet is not generally case sensitive so for searches and web site addresses you can use lower case letters.

The internet does not like spaces so make sure you do not include any spaces when typing a web address.

To learn more about the internet, searching and surfing, try a visit to the BBC's WebWise page on their web site @ www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/ 

We hope the above points have provided some help and we wish you success with your surfing of our web site and the World Wide Web!

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