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Welcome to the Invensys Appliance Controls First Time Users Guide As a first time user of this site, and perhaps of web sites in general, you will find a wealth of helpful information to get you started in making the most of this powerful business tool. Invensys understands that not everyone has the same level of knowledge and expertise when it comes to the Internet and World Wide Web. This guide will serve to familiarize new users with the terminology and basics of site navigation. Don't worry if terms such as Internet and Web Browsers are unfamiliar to you, they are explained in this guide. Feel free to return to this section as often as you need to refresh your memory. Before you know it, you'll be navigating the Invensys Appliance Controls Internet site in no time.
You will need a PC with a Web Browser installed on it.
Before we answer that, let's start at the beginning, with the Internet.
Imagine a large group of Computers, each of which belong to someone, but not one individual. However, they are all connected together using a common network. Some of the computers belong to the government, some to large companies and small businesses, some to universities and schools, and some to individuals at home. This group of computers, when connected together is collectively known as the Internet The computers are located all over the world and anyone with an account can connect to the network, and thus to the computers.
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a part of the Internet. The Internet is capable of transporting e-mail, news messages, files and most commonly, Web pages. Web pages are documents, which are viewed using a Web browser. Groups of Web pages are referred to as a Web site. Web site's could use the analogy of an electronic book. The word Web is used, because pages and sites are interconnected just like the strands of a spider's web.
A Web browser is a program that runs on your computer, and as its name implies, is used to browse Web pages that are stored on the Internet or Intranet. There are many different Web browsers, but the two most common ones are Microsoft's Internet Explorer (MS-IE) and Netscape's Navigator (Netscape). The icons that represent them on your computer look like this:
To start your
browser, locate its Icon on your computer and double-click it with
Or, if you are using Netscape, something like this:
So let's enter a URL and see what happens.
An URL (pronounced erl) is a Universal Resource Locator. Basically it is the address of a Web page that enables your browser to find it on the Internet or Intranet. For example
the address of the Invensys' Public Web site is Or
when it's displayed in Netscape, it looks like this: Microsoft refers to it as the "Address" while Netscape refers to it as the "Location". You can type any address in here you wish. Most sites on the public Internet have an address that start with www. The portion of the address that follows (in the above case "siebe.com" describes, the name and type of the organization that owns the Web site. Obviously "siebe" is the name of the organization. ".com" shows us that the organization is "commercial". Equally, this could be ".org" to indicate a nonprofit organization or ".edu" to indicate an educational institution such as a university. To open a Web site, just type in the URL and press enter. The buttons on the Browser's Menu Bar will help you move around as well.
As you will notice, the most important buttons are labeled, Back, Forward, Stop, Refresh or Reload, Print and Home.
Here's what each of the buttons do:
A link is how you travel from one document to another. Words or images in the document may be linked to other documents. You can jump from one document to the next, by simply clicking your mouse on the link. Links are typically blue and underlined. |
