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Welcome to today's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, August 5, 2001
In this Issue:
Featured Computer Term: Bookmark
Topic: How To Return To Your Favorite Websites
Progressive Learning Series: Font Terminology
Featured Website: Fast Food Facts.com
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Today's Featured Computer Term: Bookmark
To mark a document or a specific place in a document for later retrieval.
Nearly all Web browsers support a bookmarking feature that lets you save the address (URL) of a Web page so that you can easily re-visit the page at a later time.
Also known as Favorites or Favorite Places.
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Today's Topic: How To Return To Your Favorite Web Sites
Have you ever looked at a really great Web site, made a mental note to return, and then couldn't remember how you got there the first time? If you answered yes, you're not alone.
Although the links to other websites (hyperlinks) make it easy to move around the Internet, this type of navigation also makes it very easy to get lost.
There is a very simple way to remember your favorite Web addresses for future reference. If you're using Internet Explorer as your browser, your favorite websites are called "Favorites!"
Let's say that you visit a website that provides very useful information and you know you'd like to return to it often. Follow these instructions to make it a "Favorite!"
Once you are on the page you want to remember, go to the top of the page, and click once on the Favorites button on the toolbar.
This will bring up a menu that offers several options. Click on Add. This will display the Add Favorites dialog box. Click on the OK button and the page will automatically be added to the end of your Favorites list.
As you become more comfortable with browsing the Web, hopefully you will find hundreds of Favorites! In this case, it becomes necessary to organize your Favorites into folders. Here's how:
In the Add Favorite dialog box, click on the "Create in" button. You will then be given the choice to either put the new Favorite into an existing folder by clicking on the folder, and then clicking, "OK," or creating a new folder.
To set up your own folders, click on "New Folder." You will now be given the chance to name your folder. Click in the white box and type the name of your new Favorites folder. Then click on "OK."
To get back to that folder, click on the "Favorites" Icon at the top of your screen, click on the folder you want, and then select the site.
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Progressive Learning Series: Font Terminology
Font - a complete set of characters in a specific face, style, and size. Each set includes upper- and lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation marks.
Font Face - also called typeface or font. The design of the character: Serif, Sans Serif, or Script.
Serif - a font face with lines, curves, or edges extending from the ends of the letter. Times New Roman is an example of a Serif font face.
Sans Serif - a font face with straight-edged characters. Arial is an example of a Sans Serif font face.
Script - a font face that looks like handwriting. Coronet is an example of a Script font face.
Font Style - the slant and weight of letters, such as bold and italic.
Font Size - the height of the font, measured in points. There are 72 points to an inch, therefore, an 18 point font is ¼ of an inch high (these measurements are approximate, based on printer capabilities).
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Today's Featured Website: Fast Food Facts.com
Want to know how many fat grams were in that McDonald's Sausage McMuffin with Egg you had down for breakfast? You can look it up on this site.
Fast Food Facts.com provides information on menu items offered by more than 50 of the most popular chain restaurants. The Search section features a pull-down menu of restaurants. Find what you're looking for, and if the restaurant is listed as Active (the list of Active restaurants changes each week, so you may have to refer back to the site), then you'll go right to a listing of menu items.
Nutritional values of various foods are broken down the same way they are on the packaged food you buy at the grocery store: calories, carbohydrate, protein, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium and dietary fiber. This site is invaluable if you're watching your weight or concerned about the your family's on-the-go nutrition.
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