The Internet Gigabook

What’s in This Book, Anyway?

This book is really six different books wrapped up in one convenient volume. It’s jam-packed with tips, advice, shortcuts, and how-to’s to help you squeeze the last drop of fun and profit from your computer. It’s a reference book. It isn’t meant to be read from start to finish. Dip into it when you need to solve a problem, investigate a new use for your computer, or find a better way to do a task. Here’s a bare outline of the six parts of this book:

♦ Book I: The Basics:

Looks into how to choose an Internet service provider, connect your computer to the Internet, handle e-mail, visit newsgroups, chat, and surf the Internet.

♦ Book II: Google:

Explains how to research by using Google, arguably the best search engine on the Internet. You discover things that you can do with Google that you likely didn’t know about, including how to cus­tomize Google and use Google as a means of finding shopping bargains.

♦ Book III: Yahoo!:

Explores how to take advantage of the numerous serv­ices that Yahoo! offers, including searching the Internet, using Yahoo! mail, shopping, chatting, playing games, doing financial research, and customizing Yahoo!.

♦ Book IV: eBay:

Describes how to buy and sell on eBay, the online auc­tion house. You can find many tips in this book for acquiring bargains and selling your own items.

♦ Book V: iTunes:

Examines iTunes, Apple’s online music store. You dis­cover how to buy music from iTunes and use the iTunes software to play music, burn CDs, and organize your music collection.

♦ Book VI: Creating Web Pages:

Helps you create a Web site with Front­Page 2003 and Dreamweaver. You also find advice here for coding with HTML and designing a Web site that will keep people coming back.

What Makes This Book Special

You’re holding in your hands a computer book that’s designed to make using the Internet as easy and comfortable as possible. Besides the fact that this book is easy to read, it’s different from other books about computers. The following sections tell you why.

Information that’s easy to look up

This book is a reference, and that means that I want you to be able to find instructions quickly. To that end, the people who have contributed to this book have taken great pains to make sure that the material in this book is well organized and easy to find. The descriptive headings help you find infor­mation quickly. The bulleted and numbered lists make following instructions simpler. The tables make options easier to understand.

A task-oriented approach

Most computer books describe what the software is, but this book explains how to complete tasks with the software. I assume that you came to this book because you want to know how to do something — build a Web site, send e-mail, conduct research on the Internet. You came to the right place. This book describes how to get tasks done.
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