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This website is a beginner's guide to using the [[Internet]].
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This website is [[User:Michael|Michael Slattery]]'s personal guide to using the [[Internet]]. It reflects my limited experience of using the web, mostly via a computer running [[Microsoft Windows]]. The site is currently rudimentary, an incomplete [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_in_progress work in progress]. Pages that are linked to but not yet created appear as [[red link]]s.
  
The website has been created by [[User:Michael|Michael Slattery]] in order to help make the basic tools of the Internet available to the uninitiated.
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The companion to this site is my [http://interdb.org Internet Database], which contains a hodge-podge of poorly-digested information about people, websites and other stuff connected with the Internet.
  
==Under Construction==
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Words to the wise: "Learning to use the Internet is a full-time job."
The site is currently '''UNDER CONSTRUCTION'''. In these first stages of construction, short articles will be added in order to establish the '''structure''' of the site. The articles will be expanded later by adding more detail.
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Any text that is unfinished or in doubt is '''marked in bold characters'''. Articles that are linked to but not yet created appear as [[Red Links]].
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==Starting points==
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All Categories are attached, directly or indirectly, to [[:Category:Root]].
  
==Navigate this site==
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An explanatory list of the main Categories and Sub-Categories can be found here: [[Category List]]
All categories are attached to the [[:Category:Root|Root]] Category, either directly or indirectly. You can thus start at the root category and work down:
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*Root category: [[:Category:Root]]
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Or you
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==Main Categories==
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The following pages were intended as starting points (but they are incomplete and likely to be replaced by others):
*[[Webuser Tools]]
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*[[How to use a web browser]]
*[[Social Media]]
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*[[How to make a website]].
*[[Cyberculture]]
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*[[Webmaster Tools]]
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*[[]]
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See also the manually-created [[Site Map]].
  
 
==Is this website a wiki?==
 
==Is this website a wiki?==
This website runs on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software, which is the wiki software used by Wikipedia. This might give the false impression that the website is a wiki. But in fact only registered users can edit pages, and the only registered user at the moment is [[User:Michael|Michael Slattery]].
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This website runs on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki], the wiki software used by [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]. That might give the impression that the website is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki]. But in fact the only authorized user is [[User:Michael|yours truly]].
 
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==Scaffolding (to be removed)==
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*[[Site Map]]
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*[[Notes]]
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*[[Sandbox]]
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*[[Special:Wantedpages]]
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==Contact==
 
==Contact==
Comments or questions may be addressed to: michaelrobertslattery(at)gmail(dot)com
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Send email to: slatteraz(at)gmail(dot)com

Latest revision as of 13:09, 23 January 2014