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Sams Teach Yourself Internet and Web Basics All in One
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Sams Teach Yourself Internet and Web Basics All in One

by Ned Snell, Bob Temple, T. Michael Clark
May 2003
Beginner
816 pages
19h 54m
English
Sams
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About Your “Home Page”

Most Web browsers are configured to go automatically to a particular Web page as soon as you open them and connect to the Internet. This page is generally referred to as the browser's “home page.”

Home page. A Web page a browser is configured to go to automatically when you open it, to provide a starting point for your Web travels. It's also sometimes called the “startup page.” But remembering that the page is “home” is important, as you'll learn later in this chapter.

Note that “home page” has two meanings in Web parlance: It also describes a Web page that serves as the main information resource for a particular person or organization. For example, www.toyota.com may be described as Toyota's “home page.”

For example, if ...

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