Website Secrets and Blogging

MSN (Microsoft Network) is  one of the most popular portals on the Internet, competitior of both Yahoo! and America Online for number of users. (Some sources actually place MSN as the number-one portal in
terms of average days per month per user.) That should come as no surprise; MSN has assembled a first-class assortment of content and services, and presents it all in a very attractive package. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Microsoft steers you in the direction of MSN when you use any Microsoft product or service— including Windows. In fact, if you’re a Microsoft user (and who isn’t?), you’d
be hard pressed to avoid MSN.According to Microsoft, MSN attracts a more experienced, more technically savvy user than does chief competitor America Online. That makes sense; in a way, MSN is like AOL for grown-ups.

If you’re used to the similar services offered by America Online (or the AOL.com site), you’ll be surprised by this really big secret. All the content and services offered by MSN are available totally free of charge. That’s right, MSN is free for all comers. You don’t have to pay $20 or
more a month to access these great features—just point your browser to www.msn.com and browse to your heart’s content. But wait—isn’t MSN an Internet service provider, complete with dial-up and
broadband access? Yes, it is. But MSN Internet access is separate from the MSN portal, which is out there on the Web for anyone to use, whether you connect through MSN Internet access or another Internet Service Provider (ISP).If you need a dial-up Internet service provider, MSN Internet access is worth
your consideration. But you don’t have to use MSN dial-up to access the MSN site; whichever ISP you use, you still have access to all the content and services on the MSN portal—at no charge.
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While the eBay staff can be helpful, they’re often busy. An equally good source of information and advice and one that’s often faster than going through official channels is the huge universe of fellow eBay users. eBay makes it easy to communicate with other users by providing a number of topic-specific discussion boards and chat rooms.You access all of eBay’s discussion forums from the eBay Community page (community.ebay.com), which you can open by clicking the Community button on the eBay Navigation bar. Feel free to ask any appropriate question of your fellow members; you may be surprised how fast you get a response!

While eBay makes it easy to browse through the numerous categories of merchandise offered for sale, there are so many items listed in most categories that browsing in this fashion is virtually impractical. It’s much more efficient to use eBay’s search function to search the millions of active auctions for those particular
items you’re shopping for.Using eBay search is like using the search function at Google and similar sites.
Enter one or more keywords into the search box on eBay’s home page and then click the Search button. Items matching your query are then listed on a separate results page.

eBay automatically searches for items that include all the words in your query.If you instead want to do an OR-type search, or search for an exact phrase, or exclude words from the search, then you have to use advanced search operators in conjunction with your keywords. eBay’s accepted search operators are detailed in Table below

Function                                                                                          Operator
Search for part of a word                                                                     *
Search for either word                                                                 (word1,word2)—with no spaces between
Search for an exact phrase                                                               “phrase”
Must include a word                                                                         +word
Must exclude a word                                                                        -word 
Must exclude two or more words                                                     -(word1,word2)
Must include a year or number                                                          #number

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As you’re discovering, Yahoo! offers a variety of search options. There’s Yahoo!
Web Search (via Google) and the Yahoo! directory, as well as separate news,
image, map, product, and Yellow Pages searches.
While you can go to each of these search pages separately, they’re all easily
accessed from the Yahoo! Search page (search.yahoo.com), shown in Screen shot. Just click the icon for the type of search you want to conduct, and then start
searching!

Just because you conduct one type of Yahoo! search doesn’t mean you can’t
expand your query into other types of searches. It’s as easy as clicking a new
tab on your search results page.
As you can see in screenshot, there are a series of tabs at the top of each search
results page. These tabs are:
Web—The default Web search using Google’s search index
Images—Finds related photographs and images
video—Finds related video listed in Yahoo!
Local—Finds related to local searches
News—Searches Yahoo! News for related stories
More—more option on Yahoo! Searches
Click a tab to expand your search into other areas of Yahoo!
Click one of these tabs to display a new page of search results.

That’s right—you don’t have to be a spelling bee winner to search with Google. That’s because Google has built-in automatic spelling correction. If you inadvertently misspell a search query, Google recognizes what you meant to type and provides the correct spelling for you. So go ahead and type as fast as you can. Google will correct all your spelling mistakes.

When you’re entering a Google query, don’t waste time pressing the Shift key on your computer keyboard. That’s because the Google search engine isn’t case sensitive. So it doesn’t matter how you capitalize the words in your query—Hot Body and hot body will both return the same results.

You have another option after you enter your search query, other than clicking
the Google Search button. When you click the I’m Feeling Lucky button,
Google shoots you directly to the Web page that ranked at the top of your
search results, no extra clicking necessary. If you trust Google to always deliver
the one best answer to your query, this is a fun option to try. For the rest of us,
however, it’s still best to view the rest of the search results to see what other
sites might match what we’re looking for.
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In the ever-growing world of online shopping, there are a lot of big e-tailing
sites, but there’s only one true giant: Amazon.com. Amazon offers millions of
items for sale in most major product categories.If you’ve ever shopped at Amazon before, the site remembers you—and creates your own personal start page, This page features
products that Amazon thinks you’ll be interested in, based on your past purchases.

Most people think that a credit card is mandatory when you’re purchasing
online. While it’s certainly the most convenient way to pay, it’s not the only way
to pay—at least at Amazon. In addition to the standard method of entering your
credit card information online, Amazon lets you call in your credit card number
over the phone (great if you’re concerned about online credit card fraud) or pay
by check or money order. These options are all available on every order form
when you check out. Select the desired payment option and then follow the
onscreen instructions to finalize your payment.

CNN is the most popular news website on the internet.As you can see in Figure, the CNN.com home page (www.cnn.com) serves up the latest news headlines at the left of the page with headlines by department
below that. The lower navigation column offers quick links to each department (Home, Video, World, and so on), as well as links to the site’s video and e-mail services. Click on any headline to read the full story. 

Some of CNN’s best reporting can be found when you click the Special Reports
button on the site’s home page. The Special Reports section offers in-depth analysis of the biggest ongoing stories.This is where you’ll find comprehensive reporting on current high-profile topics. These reports are much longer than the typical Web news story; many offer multiple stories linked together to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic at hand.These reports give you the detailed background you
need to more fully understand today’s most important issues. These special reports are recommended for informed readers of all persuasions.

If you can’t find it anywhere else, you can probably find it on eBay.eBay is the world’s largest marketplace. It uses the concept of online auctions to enable individuals (and businesses) around the world to sell all manner of merchandise—to the highest bidder. On any given day eBay has more than 12 million items listed for auction; That’s a lot of stuff! In many ways, eBay is the high-tech equivalent of an old-fashioned garagesale. If you have something to sell, eBay helps you find someone to buy it. It’s all
automated; just fill out the online forms and eBay launches and runs the entire auction process for you. When the auction is over, the high bidder wins; after receiving payment, the seller then ships the item and another auction is successfully completed.eBay home page is the gateway to all the auctions currently running on the site. You can browse through the merchandise categories until you come across something you want to bid on or use the search box to find specific items.

eBay makes it easier for sellers or bidders to search for your launch or for auction respectively.But where do you go to report deadbeat bidder,viewing your credit card billing option etc.Fortunately, eBay offers a single page that links to all the hidden pages on its site. That page is the Site Map page,You can watch it by clicking "Legal&More" option in the footer of the page.

  

 eBay’s Site Map includes links to more than a hundred separate pages—which makes it worth bookmarking on its own. In many cases, it’s the only way to get to where you
want to go!

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