Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research (Paperback)

~ (Author), Jill Alane Nystrom (Author)

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Amazon.com Review

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 Description

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Ventana Communications Group; 1st edition (December 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566046041
• ISBN-13: 978-1566046046
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 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.com Sales Rank: #4,924,079 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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

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

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent as a reference for Super Web Searchers, April 25, 2000

By	Steven Charnick "a solo cello outside a chorus" (Ocean, NJ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you wish to learn to search the easy way (not trial and error like I did), buy this book and Secrets of the Super Net Searchers, as well as the Alta Vista guide. You will not be disappointed - the time you will save is well worth the price.