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website of Himachal's truly
national online news digest
Him Vikas. The editorial
values focus on leading and
shaping public opinion on
the issues that affect Himachal
Pradesh and other such hills
and mountainous regions.
This section tries to deal
with the various www or internet
terms and common technical
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Browsers
We
believe in making our content as
widely available as we can. Therefore,
we try whenever possible to stick
to commonly used technologies and
formats. Users visiting our site
with Netscape version 4.79 or Internet
Explorer versions 5.0 or above
should have
no trouble seeing the vast majority
of our content. Our Site also supports
MOZILLA Firefox. You can download
the world's best and safest browser
by clicking the image below.
Plug-Ins
Sometimes we offer enhanced multimedia
content that requires special software
additions to the standard browsers.
These software additions are known
as plug-ins. We only adopt plug-ins
which are freely available to the
public, and which have been widely
adopted among our users already. If a link on our site points to
content which requires a plug-in,
we will notify the user and offer
another link to get the necessary
plug-in.
URL
Uniform
Resource Locator is a means of
identifying an exact location
on the Internet e.g. http://www.himvikas.org/index.html
is the URL which defines the use
of HTTP to access default web page
(/index.html). As the previous example
shows, a URL is comprised of four
parts: Protocol Type (HTTP), Web
site name (himvikas.org),
Directory path (/default /index.html),
and
File Name (index.htm).
HTTP
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is
a standard method of transferring
data between a Web server and a Web
browser.
IP Address
Internet
protocol numerical address assigned
to each computer on the
network so that its location and
activities can be distinguished (e.g.
126.75.57.201).
HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language is used
to write documents for the World
Wide Web. An HTML page is a Hyper
Text Markup Language document stored
in a directory on a Web server at
the time of the request for the purpose
of displaying that document. In addition
to text, an HTML page may include
graphics, video, audio, and other
files
Domain Name
The
text name that identifies an Internet
site corresponding
to the
numeric IP address of a computer
on the Internet (i.e., www.himvikas.org).
Every domain name consists of one
top or high-level and one or more
lower-level designators. Top-level
domains are either generic or geographic.
Generic top-level domains include
.com, .net, .edu & .org. Geographic
domains designate countries of origin,
such as .us (United States), .fr
(France), .uk (United Kingdom), .org.in
(India) etc.
Browser
A
Client program (software) that
is used to look at various kinds
of Internet resources and HTML
pages.
(For example Netscape, Microsoft
Explorer, Opera) Cache Memory used to temporarily store
the most frequently requested content
/ files / pages in order to speed
its delivery to the user. Popular
web browsers such as Netscape and
Microsoft store information and details
on a PC's hard disk. If a user requests
a particular web page, the browser
first checks the 'PC's cache' to
see if a copy exists, if so, the
browser delivers the page from the
hard drive, rather than via the Internet.
This speeds up the loading of the
page, and reduces network congestion.
Depending on the amount of time a
user spends on the Internet, pages
may stay in the PC cache for many
weeks. Unless they are cleared.
Clearing
the browser's cache
If you keep seeing the same page
even though you are reloading your
browser, you may need to clear your
cache. A browser's cache stores the
files and images for recently viewed
pages.
You can clear the browser's cache
on some version of Internet Explorer
by clicking on the Tools pull-down
menu, choosing Internet Options,
and clicking on the Delete Files
button in the Temporary Internet
Files section. This can also be done
on some versions of Netscape by clicking
on the Edit pull-down menu, choosing
Preferences, double-clicking on the
Advanced category, choosing the cache
subdirectory, and pressing both the
Clear Memory Cache and Clear Disk
Cache buttons.
Making
himvikas.org your homepage
You
can make himvikas.org the first
site you see when your browser loads.
This can be done on some versions
of Internet Explorer by clicking
on the Tools pull-down menu, choosing
Internet Options, and typing http://www.himvikas.org
in the text box marked Address. This
can also be done on some versions
of Netscape by clicking on the Edit
pull-down menu, choosing Preferences,
clicking on Navigator, and typing
http://www.himvikas.org
in the text box marked Location.
Thanks
for making
us your homepage!
If
you have further technical questions,
please fill out our feedback
form and
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