Mouse Pointers

Arrow (Nothing here...)
Arrow

I-Bar (text here...)
I-Bar

Hand (Link here...)
Hand

Loading (Please wait...)
Loading

 

As you view this page on your browser, note a few things about the mouse pointer...YOUR mouse pointer.

1.  If you point anywhere in the white section of this web page, the pointer will look like this....Arrow (Nothing here...) Think of this as meaning that there is "nothing" that the computer sees that it can do anything with...in other words, the computer "sees" nothing...

2.  If you point in any of the words (text) on this page, your mouse pointer will change to this...I-Bar (text here...)  This is an "I-Bar".  The computer "sees" text and tells you that it is seeing text.  Remember, the computer can't talk (yet) but it is constantly "communicating" with you by means of "visuals"...so...you may just want to "listen" to what you computer is "saying" to you.

3.  Now, point your mouse pointer at the words The Mouse on the bottom part of this web page.  Notice that your mouse pointer changes to...Hand (Link here...)  The computer is "communicating" valuable information to you.  What it is saying is..."there is a "link" here to another web page."  If you want to look at another web page, just left click once...on the "link."  Note that this particular mouse pointer actually...visually...almost tells you what to do....the index finger on the hand should left click on the mouse...make sense?

4.  When you "tell" the computer that you want to see the next web page (by left clicking on the link), the computer will obey your command and will go out onto the internet and download the web page for you.  As it is doing this (it takes some time, depending on the "size" of the web page,) the computer will "talk" to you again by showing you this pointer...

Loading (Please wait...) The computer is actually saying..."wait a minute while I download the web page."  When the page "downloads", the pointer will change back to one of 1 - 3 above....ready to "talk" to you again.

Sometimes, a web page will not "download" properly...or at all and the"As grains of sand thru the hourglass...so go the days of our internet lives..." will just spin and spin and spin.  That is the computer telling you that it is trying REALLY HARD to download the web page but it can't...for some reason. It's really saying..."Wait a minute...I'm really doing my best and will open the web page just as soon as I can, if I can, when I can...if ever...maybe..."

I guess you could think of these mouse pointers as the computer's "sign" language.  Yeah...that's it...sign language.

 

DO YOU HAVE...

Ideas, Suggestions, or Other Comments for or about the IBT web pages?

If yes...

...just click here for an on-line Feedback Form (new) (left click of course.) The feedback form allows you to type in your comments about the IBT pages and works independent of your e-mail program.  Try it...I think you'll like it.  It's fast and easy...and quick too.  Just type and click...that's all...

or E-mail me at: coach at cybrzn dot com

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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BS Managerial Accounting - UWGB
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