STEP SIXTEEN (If You Know Where You Want to Go)

If you know the name of the website you want to visit, all you have to do is click three times in the long, center field at the top of the browser to highlight all the text that's already there, then type the Web address you want to go to. For example, if you wanted to visit the website for the publisher of this book (which is Peachpit Press), you can just type the word "Peachpit" in the main address window that runs across the top of your browser window and press the Return key (technically, Peachpit's Web address is www.peachpit.com, but if you just type in a single name like this, Safari assumes that it's a ".com" so it adds that information for you automatically. Another example: If you want to visit CNN.com, you can just type "CNN" (without the quotes). You don't need to type "www" or that "http://" thingjust type "CNN," press Return, and in a second or two, you're there.

TYPING A WEB ADDRESS

TIP If you're going to type a Web address, you first have to erase the address of the current website that's displayed in the main address bar that runs across the top of your browser. Instead of clicking three times, how about clicking only once? Simply click on the tiny icon that appears before the Web address that's there now and the entire Web address will highlight for you. Now all you have to do is start typing and the new Web address you're typing will automatically erase the address that was previously there.