PHIL OLIVER - Mining Engineer and Technical Author

If you want to get to grips with the Internet, with surfing the Web using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, and using Outlook Express 6 for e-mail and newsgroups, then this is for you.

The book explains:

• The Internet and how the Web fits into the general scenario.

• How to go about getting an Internet connection of your own.

• The new features of Explorer 6 and how to use it to surf the Web, to find and maintain lists of useful sites, how to save and print Web pages, pictures and other files.

• How to use Outlook Express 6 for all your e-mail and Newsgroup reading needs, and how to find your way through the thousands of newsgroups that have proliferated on the Internet.

• How to censor your browser and steer clear of some of the Internet's more peculiar users.

A detailed glossary of Internet and general computer terms is included, along with appendices of keyboard shortcut commands and details of the most common file formats you are likely to encounter on the Internet.

Last updated - 31 March 2006