How These Lessons Work
Browsers
These lessons are formatted using stylesheets.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x & 4.0 give
full formatting.
Netscape Communicator handles a few things a bit
differently, but works OK. Things just don't look quite the same.
Netscape 3.x doesn't understand stylesheets, so
quite a bit of the formatting is lost. But the text and graphics should be fine.
Netscape 2.x will not run the animations that
start when you click and frames will be visible. It also does not show table background
color. So the DOS code cells are hard to read, since they come out as white on gray
instead of white on black. Highlighting such text helps a little.
Resolution and Color Depth
The layout was designed to look best at a resolution of 800 x 600.
The graphics were designed for 16 bit color, that is Hi Color, which is the
next step up from 256 colors. If some colors look ugly or speckled to you, you are
probably using 256 colors.
Frames
Several lessons contain pages that use invisible frames.
You can click on part of an image on the left and the description will show on the right.
There are links to No Frames versions of these pages,
too. If your browser does not support frames, you should see a link to the equivalent No
Frames page. If you run into problems with this, please let me know at the email address
at the bottom of the page. All my browsers support frames, so I can't test this action
myself.
Navigation
You will find a menu of lessons at the top right of each
page.
This menu also has a link straight to the next lesson. |
| The site logo at the top right of each page is a link back to the page
you're on now, where the menu of lessons is. |
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| A few framed pages won't have the lesson topics visible unless you click
on "Lesson Menu" in the logo. Then the menu will appear in the right hand frame
below it. |
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| At the bottom of each page are links back to the course homepage, to the
previous page, and to the next page or lesson. |
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Quizzes
After each lesson, there is a review quiz. I'm not keeping score though. If your first
choice of answer doesn't suit, keep on trying. You'll get a popup message after each
choice.
Where did this come from?
These lessons are based on my lecture notes and some PowerPoint presentations I
developed for a college course I taught on computer literacy a while back at Roane State
Community College here in Tennessee. They represent the core information from half of the
course, the other half being the hands-on assignments with Microsoft Office software. So
if you master the materials contained in this site, you may consider yourself to have done
half of a college computer literacy course. And for no fees! Aren't you smart!!
Are you ready? Begin the first lesson by clicking on the little computer. 
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