Exploring the Web was developed to teach the fundamentals of the World Wide Web, the feature set and user interface of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE), and the skills necessary to locate and consume Web-based content.

This full-day course focuses on the exploration and utilization of Web-based hypertext and hypermedia information. Students are exposed to all Web-based multimedia data formats, including Java, Acrobat (PDF), QuickTime, panoramic images, zoom images, virtual objects, Shockwave, and RealVideo.

Exploring the Web focuses on the following topics:
Linear vs. non-linear information
Hypertext, hyperlinks, and hypermedia
Web infrastructure: browsers and servers
Web addresses: URLs and transfer protocols
Web cookies
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 user interface
Microsoft Internet Explorer feature set
Customizing Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
Web forms and frames
Browser plug-ins
Multimedia data on the Web
Adobe Acrobat
Java applets
Shockwave
Streaming & non-streaming video
Panoramic images
Virtual objects
Zoom images
Search engines
Keywords & query terms
Basic search strategies