New User's Resource Guide

• Open Outlook Express
• Up at the top, in the toolbar, click on "Tools"
• In the menu that drops down, click on "Accounts"
• The top button on the right is "Add" -- click it, and then click "Mail" in the popup menu
• Follow the step-by-step instructions to insert the account name and email address
• In the next section on "Email Server Names", the top box should say "POP3" and the boxes at the bottom should each say "mail.wmonline.com"
• In the next section, type in your username and password
• In the next section, give your new account a friendly name
• In the next section, indicate how you want the email program to connect to the server (usually, this is done with a phone line and modem)
• In the next section, indicate if you wish to use an existing dialup connection or make a new one.
• You're all done -- click "Finish"

You don't need to do anything else. The next time you check email, your new account will automatically be checked along with your original account listing.

Q: I don't want to be online while I'm answering my email. How do I get off-line without closing my email program?

A: There are two ways to do this. If you are using Outlook Express, click "File" and then "Disconnect" in the pop-down menu. Or you can look for the little modem icon down in the lower right corner of your screen, next to the clock -- double-click on it to bring up the modem monitor dialog box (it tells how long you've been online, how many bytes have been transferred, etc.), and click the button labeled "Disconnect".

Q: What is a "webpage"? How big is it?

A: First of all, you must unlearn everything you ever thought you knew about "pages", because these pages aren't contained in a physical medium, such as paper. Think, instead, in terms of "subjects". Very often, if you send a webpage from your browser to your printer, you will find that it prints out in several physical pages. Some webpage files are quite large and others quite small. How large a webpage is depends on how much information is presented on any given subject, but the electronic medium is not limited by physical dimensions.

If the author decides that the page has become to big, he/she may decide to build other pages out of subjects contained within the main heading, ultimately reducing the "size" of the original page. Loading time (how long it takes a page to come up in your browser) is a consideration when an author writes pages that will contain a lot of information and/or graphics (images, pictures, etc.) and other special features.

Click here to set up your browser's Home Page.