Browser Navigation Tips
I will show five different screen captures here of the most popular web browser, Internet Explorer. Your browser may be slightly different. Just realize that they all display the page title, the address and usually at the bottom what it is loading or a link, or that it is done. Many people are not aware of watching the line as they drag the mouse over a webpage. On many pages the images have links, but, if you drag the mouse too fast then the cursor doesn't have time to change to a pointer or it changes back so fast that you miss it.For example, on my main page did you know if you put the mouse pointer over the banner that says "Mars mania, Your Life, Will Never, Be the Same" it is linked to my guestbook? Did you know the flag waving will take you to US Flag.org? Or the STS Photo of the crew will take you to their biographies? I have many animated images that are linked to other websites so please beware! The flying Pegasus is also linked to, guess where, the real pegasus webpage. This website deals with attention to detail. That is why a lot of this has not been pointed out before. I have had people not being able to find the website other than the index page because they didn't click on the time machine or the karate grey guy on Mars-mania. Let's take a look at these tips on the browser window.
Above you can see the browser window with the Title Bar and Address Bar Labelled. The search engines rely heavily on the title bars as the
meta content is overused by webmasters to attract traffic by using too many and sometimes non-related keywords to boast their abilty to attract traffic.
Above you can see what happens when you drag the mouse over the address bar and click it once. If you hit the return key now it will erase the entire URL. You must click it again to edit the address. Ny daughter learned this when she was 12 years old. If an address had a mistake in it she would simply edit it and fix it. Remember that the next time I email you about a new webpage and I type it in with a comma in place of the letter 'm'. Pay attention to detail and your life will be much less frustrating. Then email the perpetrator later about their mistake.
Above you can see the cursor location by the vertical line in front of '.html'. Now it is safe to edit. You can visit parts 1-33 by simply editing the numbers. Of course, you can always check to see if I am working on Part 34 by typing 34. Sometimes I have a 'b' version. You might type '19b' and get a different version Part 19. I might have one called 'windows' which is a private joke about windows 2005. Then, you type windows in front of the .html and get rid of the 'martianmania'. See how simple it is?
Above you see where I typed '33' after martianmania. You would then simply hit the return key to go to that page.
Above you can see one of Mike Malins MSSS.COM pages. You can do the same thing on his site. I like to navigate by going to the wide angle section because it is so easy to find the longitude and latitude of interest. I then simply subtract one from the last digit to view the narrow angle. Anyone who has tried to use the narrow angle map can appreciate this. I hope this has been of some help. I doubt if this will turn any of you into 'hackers'.
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