Navigating Web Pages

Scrolling Up and Down a Web Page

Instructions for learning how to scroll up and down a page can be found here.  Click on the word “here” to go to a page with instructions.

Linking to a Source

Reading text on a web page can be a much more powerful experience than reading text in a book.  You can actually go to another web page by clicking on a link to a source.  If a word or phrase is underlined and highlighted in blue or some other color, then it is very likely a link to a source.  If you place the moving mouse cursor over the highlighted link, it will change to a hand symbol, which identifies the word or phrase that you are hovering over as a link to a source.  Left click on it and it will take you to that source.

Once at the source page, you may find other links of interest on the new web page and if you keep clicking on links you will move from one web page to another and you may wind up a few web pages from where you started.

To get back to the original web page, click on the “back arrow at the top left of the browser, “<-“.  You may have to click on it more than once to get back to the page you want depending on how many links you clicked from the original page.

As an example, in the previous “Welcome…” article, notice the word Welcome is underlined and highlighted in color.  If you click on it with your mouse, it will take you to that article.  Try it, and to get back to this web page by clicking on the back arrow as many times as you have to, depending on whether you clicked on links within the “Welcome…” article.

I would recommend your returning to the first article of this blog, and reading it with new eyes, spotting the links spread throughout the article, and going to those sources, which should enrich your reading experience of the article.

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