The Internet GigaBook for Dummies

931 Pages·2004·37.48 MB·English

by  Peter Weverka

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The Internet
GIGABOOK™
FOR
DUMmIES
‰
Peter Weverka
Tony Bove,Mark Chambers,Marsha Collier,Brad Hill,
John Levine,Margaret Levine Young,Doug Lowe,
Camille McCue,Deborah Ray,Eric Ray,Cheryl Rhodes
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The Internet
GIGABOOK™
FOR
DUMmIES
‰
Peter Weverka
Tony Bove,Mark Chambers,Marsha Collier,Brad Hill,
John Levine,Margaret Levine Young,Doug Lowe,
Camille McCue,Deborah Ray,Eric Ray,Cheryl Rhodes
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The Internet GigaBook™For Dummies®
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Acknowledgments
Wiley Publishing, Inc., gratefully acknowledges the contributions of these authors
and contributing writers: Peter Weverka, Brad Hill, Cheryl Rhodes, Doug Lowe,
Emily Vander Veer, John Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Marsha Collier, and
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction.................................................................................1
Book I: The Basics .......................................................................5
Part I: Up and Running on the Internet........................................................................................7
Chapter 1: Hooking Up with the Right Service ........................................................................................7
Chapter 2: Managing Your Online Security ............................................................................................11
Chapter 3: America Online .......................................................................................................................17
Part II: Getting Caught in the World Wide Web......................................................................27
Chapter 4: Browsers and What They Do ................................................................................................27
Chapter 5: Customizing Your Browser Settings .....................................................................................43
Chapter 6: Printing and Saving Web Information ..................................................................................55
Part III: E-Mail...............................................................................................................................61
Chapter 7: E-Mail Basics ...........................................................................................................................61
Chapter 8: Sending and Receiving E-Mail with Outlook Express .........................................................65
Chapter 9: Organizing E-Mail Addresses and Messages .......................................................................73
Chapter 10: Mailing Lists ..........................................................................................................................81
Part IV: Online Communication..................................................................................................87
Chapter 11: Chatting Online .....................................................................................................................87
Chapter 12: Instant Messaging .................................................................................................................93
Chapter 13: Keeping Up-to-Date with News ...........................................................................................97
Part V: Exploring the Internet with a Macintosh..................................................................105
Chapter 14: Using Apple Mail .................................................................................................................105
Chapter 15: Expanding Your Horizons with iDisk ...............................................................................123
Chapter 16: Going Places with Safari ....................................................................................................129
Book II: Google .......................................................................141
Part I: Google: More Than Meets the Eye..............................................................................143
Chapter 1: Think You Know Google? .....................................................................................................143
Chapter 2: Improving Your Google Searches .......................................................................................147
Chapter 3: Ogling the News ....................................................................................................................161
Chapter 4: More Than You Care to Know .............................................................................................169
Part II: Customizing Your Google Experience.......................................................................185
Chapter 5: Setting Your Preferences .....................................................................................................185
Chapter 6: Using the Google Toolbar ....................................................................................................191
Chapter 7: Googling in Tongues ............................................................................................................201
Part III: Dusting Off Your Google Gems...................................................................................207
Chapter 8: Searching for Specialty Items .............................................................................................207
Chapter 9: Getting Answers (From Human Beings!) ...........................................................................211
Part IV: The Google Marketplace............................................................................................223
Chapter 10: Shopping with Froogle and Google Catalogs ..................................................................223
Chapter 11: Raising Your Visibility with Google ..................................................................................231
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Book III: Yahoo! ......................................................................239
Part I: Making Yahoo! Your Own.............................................................................................241
Chapter 1: Introducing Yourself to Yahoo! ...........................................................................................241
Chapter 2: Customizing Your Yahoo! Experience ................................................................................249
Chapter 3: The Yahoo! All-Mail Revue ...................................................................................................255
Part II: Searching . . . Yahoo! Style..........................................................................................265
Chapter 4: Serious Searching at Yahoo! ................................................................................................265
Chapter 5: Finding People and Businesses ..........................................................................................277
Chapter 6: And That’s the Way It Is: News Searching .........................................................................283
Part III: Meeting and Greeting in the Yahoo! World............................................................289
Chapter 7: Instant Messaging with Yahoo! Messenger .......................................................................289
Chapter 8: Passing the Time at Yahoo! Games ....................................................................................297
Chapter 9: Posting Your Web Page through GeoCities .......................................................................303
Part IV: Yahoo! Means Business.............................................................................................317
Chapter 10: Going, Going, Gone to Yahoo! Auctions ...........................................................................317
Chapter 11: From Wall Street to Your Street: Yahoo! Finance ............................................................323
Book IV: eBay .........................................................................331
Part I: Signing Up and Getting Started....................................................................................333
Chapter 1: Getting a Grip on eBay Auctions ........................................................................................333
Chapter 2: The Bucks Start Here: Signing Up at eBay .........................................................................339
Chapter 3: Just Browsing: Navigating eBay ..........................................................................................345
Chapter 4: It’s All About You: My eBay .................................................................................................353
Part II: Bidding (And Winning).................................................................................................367
Chapter 5: Information Is Power: Researching ....................................................................................367
Chapter 6: Bidding Basics ......................................................................................................................379
Chapter 7: Getting Foxy with Bidding Strategies .................................................................................393
Chapter 8: After You Win ........................................................................................................................401
Part III: Participating in the eBay Community.......................................................................409
Chapter 9: Privacy: To Protect and to Serve ........................................................................................409
Chapter 10: Reporting Abuses and Fraud ............................................................................................415
Chapter 11: Yada, Yada: Message Boards, Announcements, and Chat .............................................429
Part IV: Opening Your Store on eBay......................................................................................435
Chapter 12: Trash to Treasure: Selling on eBay ..................................................................................435
Chapter 13: Time to Sell: Completing the Cyber Paperwork .............................................................447
Chapter 14: Shopping and Selling with eBay Stores ...........................................................................469
Chapter 15: Closing the Deal and Shipping the Merchandise ............................................................475
Book V: iTunes ........................................................................491
Part I: Finding and Downloading Your Favorite Tunes........................................................493
Chapter 1: Setting Up iTunes .................................................................................................................493
Chapter 2: Buying Music from Apple ....................................................................................................503
Chapter 3: Importing Music into iTunes ...............................................................................................509
Chapter 4: Sharing Music (Legally) .......................................................................................................515
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Part II: Managing Your iTunes..................................................................................................519
Chapter 5: Searching, Browsing, and Sorting ......................................................................................519
Chapter 6: Adding and Editing Song Information ................................................................................525
Chapter 7: Organizing Music with Playlists .........................................................................................531
Part III: Optimizing and Burning Your iTunes........................................................................537
Chapter 8: Choosing an Encoding Format ............................................................................................537
Chapter 9: Equalizing the Sound in iTunes ..........................................................................................545
Chapter 10: Burning CDs ........................................................................................................................551
Part IV: Playing Your iTunes on an iPod.................................................................................561
Chapter 11: Updating Your iPod with iTunes .......................................................................................561
Chapter 12: Editing on Your iPod ..........................................................................................................569
Chapter 13: Locating and Playing Songs ..............................................................................................573
Book VI: Creating Web Pages ...................................................579
Part I: Web Page Basics............................................................................................................581
Chapter 1: Creating a Successful Web Site ...........................................................................................581
Chapter 2: Building Your First Web Site ...............................................................................................595
Chapter 3: Exploring the Essential Elements of Web Page Design ....................................................605
Chapter 4: Working with Graphics, Sounds, and Video ......................................................................625
Chapter 5: Building Your Web Workshop .............................................................................................637
Chapter 6: Publishing Your Web Site ....................................................................................................643
Part II: HTML................................................................................................................................651
Chapter 7: Creating an HTML Page .......................................................................................................651
Chapter 8: Setting Background and Text Characteristics ..................................................................661
Chapter 9: Adding Internal and External Links ....................................................................................671
Chapter 10: Working with Images ..........................................................................................................681
Chapter 11: Controlling Page Layout ....................................................................................................689
Chapter 12: Creating Forms ...................................................................................................................695
Chapter 13: Developing Style Sheets ....................................................................................................705
Part III: FrontPage.......................................................................................................................715
Chapter 14: Introducing FrontPage .......................................................................................................715
Chapter 15: Laying Out a Web Page ......................................................................................................731
Chapter 16: Presenting the Content ......................................................................................................749
Chapter 17: Publishing and Maintaining a Web Site ...........................................................................761
Chapter 18: Forms and Behaviors .........................................................................................................773
Part IV: Dreamweaver................................................................................................................779
Chapter 19: Getting to Know Dreamweaver .........................................................................................779
Chapter 20: Creating Your First Web Site with Dreamweaver ...........................................................787
Chapter 21: Creating Basic Web Pages .................................................................................................795
Chapter 22: Incorporating Interactive Images .....................................................................................811
Chapter 23: Adding Multimedia Objects ..............................................................................................823
Chapter 24: Punching Up Your Pages with Forms ...............................................................................827
Chapter 25: Laying Out Pages with Layers ..........................................................................................833
Chapter 26: Using Templates for a Consistent Look ...........................................................................843
Chapter 27: Publishing and Maintaining Your Site ..............................................................................849
Index.......................................................................................859