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a non-commercial portal website, a starting point
for internet beginners,
and the home of:
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and The Tennisnette.
marinette.com is...
a non-commercial portal website, a starting point for internet beginners,
and the home of: The Aeronette, Internet Beginners Tutorial (IBT),
and The Tennisnette.
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(from a home computer user's standpoint)
Microsoft Internet Explorer
(MSIE5.0)
Note: if you use Netscape, I will
be building IBT Browser Pages for you soon.
E-mail. Hmmm...It sounds easy, on the surface, but, in fact, e-mail is not standard, as yet. There are a multitude of e-mail programs out there and each has it own little quirks. But, for the sake of getting started, I'll start with 2 e-mail programs that I am most familiar with, two of the most popular too...Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Hotmail. One is my local computer/ ISP based e-mail program and the other is an Internet e-mail program.
Outlook express. It's just one of the multitude of programs that I have on my computer. This one is designed to make e-mailing easy and fun....well...for the most part, this is true.
To send an e-mail, all I need is an e-mail program (I use MS Outlook Express), a computer with a modem, a functioning phone line, a connection with an Mail Server...in most cases your ISP (mine is Cyberzone), and an e-mail account with my ISP (which includes your username (mine is Coach) and a password (mine is ******).
Note, if I am connected to the internet and have an ISP, in other words...if I am an internet user, I have most everything that I need for e-mail....except for the e-mail program of course. As an aside, both MS Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator/Communicator have built in e-mail programs. If I am not an internet user and do not have an ISP, I can still use e-mail from my computer if I have a modem and a phone line and have an e-mail account with a Mail Server...the most common example of this is Juno e-mail. Juno provides e-mail service and an e-mail program to it's subscribers...more on that...later.
Ok, let's start out with looking at MS Outlook Express.
I open it by left-clicking on an icon on my task bar...(the envelope with the blue arrows "wrapped" around it and the "red" postage stamp on it...second one from the left...after the Start button.) Can you see it?
As soon as I click on the shortcut (icon) on my task bar...this is what I see: (in this case, I am already connected to the internet)
The e-mail program OPENS, checks for mail, and downloads mail from your server. Notice on the bottom middle, there is an icon and the words "Working Online" That means that I have a connection active and the program is actively checking for e-mail on my mail server. Note also, that this program has nothing to do with my internet connection...I can be online (on the internet or not online on the internet)...doesn't matter...my Outlook Express is a separate program from my browser and one doesn't need the other with computer/ISP based e-mail. Make any sense?
It's actually pretty unintimidating...isn't it? Like all other programs/applications in Windows, it has a title bar (top...blue), Menu Bar, and Standard Tool Bar.
I can Maximize the window, Resize it, and of course...Close the window/application using the Three buttons on the top right side of the Window. Notice the view I have selected is the Folders view (note the folders displayed on the left side of the window...I set mine on Outbox...just for starters.)
I'm going to send me an e-mail...using my Hotmail account so we can see what happens when I get mail on Outlook Express...please wait a minute while I do this...maybe you can take a short break?
.....Break time...
I'm back...and the e-mail was received...here's what I see (and hear) on my task bar: Note: I cut off the left side of my task bar so that I could focus your attention on the right side...the part next to the system time...on the right. See the envelope with the blue arrows around it? Notice that the envelope is not turned around...the back facing you, and the envelope is partly open? When my e-mail arrived, I heard a little bell sound, and this e-mail icon appeared on my task bar...it means that I have mail! Neat huh?
So, now that I know that I have e-mail, I can just point to the e-mail envelope icon, double left click it, and my Outlook Express program window will open...like this...
Ok...I guess it's time to go to the next E-mail page...you can click here or click on E-mail II below.
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If you click on my e-mail address above, and...with any luck at all...your e-mail program will appear on your screen...complete with my e-mail address already typed in for you. All you have to do it type your idea, suggestion, or other...whatever, click send, and see what happens.
Go ahead...try it! I'd be glad to hear from you and will make every attempt to address your ideas, suggestions, other...with a IBT web page!
Just think, you can play an active role in the development of these IBT web pages. And, of course, I will give you credit on YOUR web page(s) too!
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