
There are many different browsers and they have different looks and features. The basic concept of each is the same. Since you got here, you probably know all this. When you are helping a new user, you can come to this page to let them try features, or print out this page for them to use to begin with.
When ever you see words that are highlighted like these are you can use your mouse to move the curser over them and click the mouse. (Yes, even this one works. It is just a test.) How the highlighting appears on your page depends on your browser and the options you set on it.
If you haven't settled on a browser you like, we recommend NETSCAPE (Version 2.0 or better) or MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER as your browser, if you are looking for a new one. Microsoft's Internet Explorer comes free with Windows 95 and can be downloaded from Microsoft. Netscape can be downloaded from Netscape. Clicking on one of these two links will take you to the spot where you can download their browser.
Browser capabilities change all the time. Competing browsers are always adding a new "wiz-bang" feature to make themselves different from the competition. We have decided that we will not use any of the "wiz-bang" features until BOTH Microsoft and Netscape support it. That way we can be sure our subscribers are not "left out" because of the browser they use. (We have also decided that we will not use such fancy browser capability unless it makes YOUR USE EASIER. Too many of the new features are pretty but result in slower, more cluttered access to the information you need.)
We digressed there, back to USING your browser:
As you saw if you tried the link in the second paragraph, after you click on a link and go to another location, it is easy to get back. All you have to do is click your mouse on your browser's "back" button and you will come right back to the page you were previously on. (The back button is often the one with a left pointing arrow on it.) Repeatedly pressing the back button will continue to take you to the next previous page you were on even if it takes you out of one provider's page (like Code-Co's page) to a different one you were in before coming here.
There is also a keyboard shortcut in addition to using your mouse to click on the screen. For Netscape, it is the <ALT><LEFT ARROW> (Hold down the ALT key and press the left cursor control key at the same time.)
Most browsers also have a "forward" button (often a right pointing arrow) that only works after you have gone "back." Once you have gone back one or more pages, the "forward" button will change your direction of travel through the pages you have already seen (sort of back to the future.)
To get to Code-Co in the first place when you start a session is also simple. You have 3 choices:
NOTE: Code-Co's "Home Page" is actually made up of more than 8,000 seperate documents linked as WWW pages. The hotlist functions will keep the address of the specific WWW page you are looking at, not our top menu, or home page unless that is the one on the screen at the time. So, make sure that you are on the particular page you want when you add it to the hot list. No matter what Code-Co page you put in your hot list, we have designed our pages to let you quickly link in to any other Code-Co page through the QuickMap and the QuickLink buttons.
(Use your browsers "BACK" key to go back to the previous page you were on or click here to go back to the top of this page.)
