NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows User's Guide
NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows can accommodate up to twenty user-configurable
menus and submenus. NCSA distributes it with one top-level user-configurable
menu, the Starting Points menu, and about four submenu s. See
``User-configurable Menus'' for information on adding,
deleting, and editing user-configurable menus.
Note that user-configurable menus are easy to change. If you acquired
your copy of NCSA Mosaic by any means other than directly from NCSA,
your copy may not have the Starting Points menu described below or
your Starting Points menu may differ from the one described. Furthermore,
it may have additional user-configurable menus that appear between
the Annotate and Help menus.
NCSA Mosaic incorporates the use of hotlists, user-configurable lists
that make it easier for a user to find important documents. All user-configurable
menus can be used as hotlists. See ``Using, Creating, and Editing
Hotlists.''
The Starting Points menu, as distributed by NCSA, provides links
to several documents or gateways that serve as excellent jumping off
points to the Internet. For users unfamiliar with the Internet, many
of these provide excellent starting points for Internet exploration;
experienced users may be able to use some of these starting points
as shortcuts to reach material they are already familiar with.
The Starting Points menu contains several entries, including
the following items:
- Starting Points Document
- This selection loads the document Starting Points for Internet
Exploration. This document contains links
to a variety of Internet services.
- NCSA Mosaic Demo Document
- This selection loads the document NCSA Mosaic
Demo Document. The Internet data sources that this document
points to were selected because they illustrate the capabilities
of NCSA Mosaic and the World Wide Web.
The Starting Points menu, with the Gopher Servers
submenu
- NCSA Mosaic's What's New Page
- This selection loads the document What's New with NCSA
Mosaic which points to new Web servers and to many new
and notable Internet data displays. Most of this document is organized
by date; new displays have been listed since June 1993 as NCSA
staff became aware of them.
The What's New page includes links to university data
displays, government displays, technology displays related to the
Internet, and business displays in fields directly related to Internet
support and development. NCSA used to accept a What's New
entry for any new display that was accessible via the World Wide
Web. The past year has seen exponential growth on the Internet
and even greater growth on the Web and NCSA can no longer list
every commercial entry.
A particularly useful source available from this document is the
Internet Resources Meta-Index, a meta-index of the various
resource directories and indices available on the Internet. This
document provides a text searching capability in its interface
to various resource guides and searchable databases on the Internet.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications / mosaic-win@ncsa.uiuc.edu