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Q1)-How Can I Find What I Am Look For Through the Internet?

Q2)-What is a search engine?
Q3)-What search engines are available to look in?
Q4)-What does E-mail Means?
Q5)-What is a home Page ?
Q6)-When I open My browser a default home page appears, How Can I change That page to mine ?
Q7)-What About the Home Page design?
Q8)-What are the languages used in designing a home page ?
Q9)-What Kind Of images Supported in the Webdesgin ?
Q10)-What Kind of images is the Animated Pictures ?
Q11)-How Can I upload my page to the server ?
Q12)-What Is FTP?
Q13)-What is The URL ?
Q14)-What is the Extension the a URL ends with ?
Q15)-How Can i register My Own Domain Name?
Q16)-What is the Cost for the Domain registration?
Q17)-When Dialing to my ISP My computer gives Me the following Error Message:(The computer you dial is not responding ....) What Could be the problem ?
Q18)-How Could I Configure The Internet Dialer ?
Q19)-I need To Configure The Network Configuration ?
Q20)-What Does TCP/IP stand For ?
Q21) What is the Protocol ?
Q22)-What Does CGI Means ?
Q23)-How Can I Program a CGI Script ?
Q24)-Where is the CGI script Placed in the Server and Why?
Q25)-My Page Doesn't Show The Counter Why ?
Q26)-What is SSI ?
Q27)-How Can I Talk to Others On the Internet?
Q28)-When Chatting With Other People On the Net Does it Cost More when these People Are Abroad ?
Q29)- I can reatch Planet Page but i couldnot reach other Pages, What should i do?


A1)- Place the address you are looking for in the URL or the Address field in the Browser, or look for it in any Search Engine on the Web.

A2)- A search engine is a database where you can find what you are looking for by typing the title in the search field. The search engine searches the database and correlates your inquiry with the registered sites. This means that the site you are looking for must be registered.

A3)- There are a lot of good search engines to use, some of them is listed below:-

A4)- E-mail can be considered as a mail box where your messages that are send through the net can be stored. The E-mail Format is : Yourname@YourISP.Extention
where the name is Your username and the ISP is the name of the company that provides you with the Internet service and the extension is the type of the company.

Example:- webmaster@planet.edu

A5)- A home page is a place where you can put information about yourself on the web, the information may vary from simple one to more complex and advance ones, a page may contain text information, images, media,videos and other multimedia options. The home page must be hosted by an ISP so as to provide a 24H accessible page.

 

A6)- To Change the default Home page Go to Edit in the Netscape browser then Preferences --> Navigator, and Change the Right Side Location to the Home page You Would Like the Browser to open With, Then Click OK.

A7)- The home page design is one an interesting process and can be done by the owners or by the ISP hosting that Site, the Home page cost vary depending on the size type and techniques used in designing that page.

A8)- The main designing is HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language),also the page can be implemented using JavaScript or even Java applets, on the other hand the is a large verity of plugins used in pages to give the page a professional look such as shockwave, Active-X and SMIL . Click Here for a Tutorial

A9)- There are Two kinds of supported images, JPEG and Gif.

A10)- The Animated Pictures are from the Gif Kind and they are created by producing a required number of GIF images the they are added to each other in a special order using some programs like the GIF Constrictor to get a ONE GIF picture that contains the animation.

A11)- The page can be uploaded to the server by using a FTP application. Common FTP applications are CuteFtp, WS_FTP. To upload your page please follow the following Setps

A12)- FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol .

A13)- URL(Universal Resource Location) is a unique address that refers to some location on the net (domain name), an example for a URL is http://www.planet.edu

A14)- The extensions define the type of the company that owns the URL, Some Famous extensions are:-

  • .net(Networking)
  • .com(Commercial)
  • .edu(Education)
  • .mil(Military)

A15)- You can register your domain from either Internic.com or register.com, but first you had to check if the domain name is already registered or not, and that you had an agreement with some company to host your domain.

A16)- Registration a Site Costs 100$ for the first two years including the setup charge, after the two years the fees will be 75$ for each year. The fees must be paid before the Domain get setup.

A17)- This Common problem occurs when you type a wrong password when dialing to your ISP, the first thing you need to check is that you type your password correctly, if So check the CapsLock is off, then Try again.

If the problem isn't solved You need to reconfigure Your dialer .

A18)- Follow the Following Steps to Configure Your Dialer.

A19)- The Network Configuration Can be accomplished By Following These Steps .

A20)- TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

A21)- Protocol is the language that the computers use to communicate with each other, it is a set of commands an instructions that used between computer so as they can interact with each other.

A22)- CGI stands for Common Gateway interface, which is a way that the user can interact with the server he is working on, Most Common examples for a CGI applications is the Submit Forms that Collects information's from the user and send them back to the server that respond to the sender.

A23)- CGI can be implemented in many languages such as Perl, C++, Delph, and Visual Basic, But Mostly it is implemented using Perl. For more informations and Tutorials see Perl Official Sit .

A24)- Cgi Scripts must be placed in a special directory called Cgi-bin for security reasons.This Directory is only accessed by the admin or the webmaster.

A25)- The Counter must be placed in an SSI page using the following Code:

<!--#include Cgi="path/to/directory/file.pl" -->

A26)- SSI stands For Server Side include which enables the site to read through the HTML codes for special Commands and then Executes them on The server Then Send the result to the Clint Browser (parsed HTML).

A27)- Talking to Other Through the net is Called Chatting , and Chatting is the most common used application on the net and it can be done by using some specialized programs in that stuff, such as the freetel and NetMeeting, ICQ, and IRC.

A28)- It Doesn't Depend on Where You are as long as you are on the net because you only dial to your local ISP Whom is responsible for Connecting you to the outer World.

A29)- In such cases the problem and it's description will be posted in the Wan page.

 

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