Connecting To A Web Site - Gateway Solo 9300 User Manual

Connecting to a Web site

After you set up an account with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) such as
Gateway.net or AOL, you can access the many information sources on the
World Wide Web.
To connect to a Web site:
1 Connect to your Internet account. After the notebook connects, the
default opening page, your home page, opens.
2 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
- OR -
On your home page or another Web page, click a link to a Web site.
The Web browser locates the server computer on the Internet, downloads
(transfers) data to your notebook, and displays the opening page of the
site that you requested.
Sometimes Web pages display slowly. The speed that a Web page displays on
your screen depends on the complexity of the Web page and other Internet
conditions.
on the browser address bar.
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