1. Internet & E-mail Day 2

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. http://www.yahoo.com Domain Protocol Internet Service Sub Domain

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Web Mail Electronic mail accounts on internet Free email accounts and paid mail accounts –www.yahoo.com Yahoo mails –www.hotmail.comMSN mails –www.gmail.comGoogle mails –www.sltnet.lkSri Lanka Telecom mails

9. 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 info@kosgodaeducationalinstitute.com Domain individual mail account name Sub Domain

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

11. Checking mails 1.Inbox stores the received mail message 2.Click on inbox link 3.Check on the mail you want to check 4.Click on subject of the mail 5.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

12. 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