Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research [Paperback]

Tara Calishain (Author), Jill Alane Nystrom (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1996

Step-by-step instructions show users how to: Configure Netscape Navigator. Organize information (cache browsers, bookmarks, text organizers.)

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As a research tool, this guide to the Internet is sharp and well thought out; the author obviously has a strong grasp of the issues involved. The chapters listing resources for business, students, and government information lead you to useful starting points. Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research also offers good advice on how to separate facts from spam. The guide implores you to consider the accuracy of your sources--ask for attribution, consider the slant, and always assume that you're going to have to check your facts offline. Finally, it suggests that you to ask for help, share your knowledge, and keep records of your methods. These suggestions are helpful because it's easy to forget how you got to a site when you've spent the last half-hour clicking on link after link.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Ventana Pr; 1st edition (December 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566046041
• ISBN-13: 978-1566046046
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,689,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable reference for newcomers and experienced users., October 21, 1998

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This review is from: Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research: For Windows & Macintosh (Paperback)

This book is an indispensable source of knowledge about the Internet in all of its facets. For the newcomer, it provides guidance; for the more experienced user if provides valuable source material. The book covers Netscape's capabilities, mailing lists, newsgroups, and the World Wide Web, with facts about search engines and many other research resources. It supplies useful tips, sage advice, and valuable cautions about using the Internet for both formal and informal investigations. The writing style of Tara Calishain and Jill Alane Nystrom is direct, clear, and entertaining. The book could very well be used for a course on the Internet, as a rare example of a textbook that is fun to read. Dr. Raymond L. Murray Nuclear Engineering N.C. State University Raleigh, NC 27695

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive guide to Internet Research using Netscape, October 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research: For Windows & Macintosh (Paperback)

This book is a librarian's dream (I should know I'm a librarian). In 25 well-written and illustrated chapters, Tara Calishain and Jill Alane Nystrom, Cyber-goddesses who have written other well-received Netscape-related books, have given us an easy-to-understand roadmap for navigating the Information Superhighway. They tell us the best routes to go, and even how to read the roadsigns. They, also, tell us how to navigate our own Netscape Browsers for both the Windows or MacIntoshs.

Have you ever wondered what to do with "Helper Applications", "Plug-ins", or "Caches?" This book will, in simple language, explain it all to you.

The book gets into the different aspects of the Internet, such as using mailing lists, newsgroups, gophers, telnet, Push Technology, and the many wonders of the World Wide Web.

I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in making the most use of your Netscape Browser.

To keep people up-to-date on the what's happening on the Internet, Tara has created a wonderful webpage.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an excellent text for Internet instructors., January 31, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research (Paperback)

Since I am teaching 5 classes totally via the Internet, I am always on the lookout for appropriate texts for my online classes. This book is extremely well written, highly organized, and obviously well thought out and researched. The author shows her talent not only for high-level professional writing, but for her obviously excellent research skills. She also knows how to portray that information in a way that is easily understandable and wonderful to use as a teaching tool. I am thrilled that writers of this calibre are "out there" and sharing very valuable information with a public who is crying out for more efficient ways to navigate the Net. My hat is off to this author and to Ventana for publishing this genre of book! Many, many "instructor-felt" thanks