Internet Email Day 2 Web Address URL 1

Internet & E-mail Day 2

Web Address/ URL 1. Uniform Resource Locator or web address use to access the web site 2. When you connected to the internet you can enter URL to web browser to navigate the web site. Domain http: //www. yahoo. com Protocol Sub Domain Internet Service

Protocols 1. Predefined set of rules about network data transmission 1. hyper text transfer protocol/ http 1. Transferring web pages from web servers 2. file transfer protocol/ ftp 1. Transferring files from file servers 3. gropher protocol/ gopher 4. telnet protocol/ telnet

Domains • Generic domains – Commercial sites. com – Educational institutes. edu – Government organization. gov – Military organization. mil – Networking organization. net – Nonprofit organization. org • Country domains – Sri Lanka. lk – United Kingdom. uk – Netherlands. nl – Australia. au

Web Site • • Collection of web pages First Page- Home Page Static and/ or dynamic web pages Published on web server Identified by URL or web address Links for inside web pages Web pages can be updated and uploaded

Search Engines • A web site use to search other web sites • Search engine display links to related web site in according to searched text – – – www. yahoo. com www. google. com www. msn. com www. altavista. com www. helloasia. com www. lycos. com • Searching – computer (web sites related to term computer) – computer course (web sites related to term computer and/ or term course) – “computer course” (web sites related to term computer course

Usage of Internet • • Navigating web sites Finding information File downloading Software downloading – free software on internet : freeware – free software for limited time period/ trial versions: shareware • Chatting • Video conferences (Yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, Windows messenger) • Web mail services • Online banking (E-Banking) • Online purchasing and payments through credit cards (E-Commerce) • Virtual simulation web sites

Web Mail • Electronic mail accounts on internet • Free email accounts and paid mail accounts – www. yahoo. com Yahoo mails – www. hotmail. com MSN mails – www. gmail. com Google mails – www. sltnet. lk Sri Lanka Telecom mails

Email Address 1. Email address use to identify electronic mail account on specified server 2. Email software 1. Windows Outlook Express 2. Microsoft Office Outlook 3. Eudora Domain info@kosgodaeducationalinstitute. com Sub Domain individual mail account name

Creating an Email Account using www. yahoo. com (Web mail) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Open www. yahoo. com Click my mail or mails link Click sign up now Click I accept button Select free edition and click sign me up link 6. Fill the form and click on submit button 7. Get your mail account

Checking mails 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Inbox stores the received mail message Click on inbox link Check on the mail you want to check Click on subject of the mail If you want to close the mail account click sign out link 6. If you want to delete the mails check on mails to deleting and click delete button

Sending mails 1. Click compose button 2. Enter sending email address to To field 3. Cc and BCc fields use to send same mail to other mail addresses 4. Cc- Carbon copy To mail address know the copy of the mail sent to the Cc address 5. Bcc- Black Carbon Copy To mail address did not know the copy of the mail sent to the BCc address 6. Type mail title in subject field 7. Type message in text area and click on send button 8. Use attach files link for attachment, click attach files link and browse the file you want to send as an attachment