Gateway dx4300 Guía Del Usuario

CHAPTER 2: Setting Up and Getting Started

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Web pages can contain text, animations, 

music, and other multimedia features. A group 

of related Web pages is called a 

Web site

. You 

can access Web sites to shop, track 

investments, read the news, download 

programs, and much more.
You can explore a Web site or visit other Web 

sites by clicking areas on a Web page called 

links 

or 

hyperlinks

. A link may be colored or 

underlined text, a picture, or an animated 

image. You can identify a link by moving the 

mouse pointer over it. If the pointer changes 

to a hand, the item is a link.
To learn more about using the Web browser 

features, click Help in the menu bar.

Connecting to a Web site

After you set up an account with an Internet 

service provider (ISP), you can access the many 

information sources on the World Wide Web.

To connect to a Web site:

 

1 Connect to your Internet account.
2 Depending on the method you use to connect to 

your Internet account, you may need to start 

your Web browser. Click

 (Start), then click 

Internet. Your default Web browser opens 

showing an opening page or welcome screen.

3 To go to a different Web site, type the 

address

 

(called a 

URL

 for “Universal Resource Locator”) 

in the browser address bar (for example 

www.gateway.com), then click GO on the 

browser address bar.

- OR - 
On the current Web page, click a link to 

a Web site.