How to Find Information
In this section, you will learn:
Please watch the video and read the information below to start learning.
Video of How to Find Information
Content Parts
The content of the page is home to the web page's information and is the reason why you are visiting the website. The content can be anything from text, pictures, videos, music, games, and more. In fact, what you are reading right now is content.
How to Use Text
The content of the page can also be organized in ways to make the website easier to read. For text, instead of displaying text like this in one giant block:
Batman is one of the greatest fictional superheroes of all time. Batman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939 after DC Comics wanted another hero in addition to Superman, who was created in 1938. Batman's creators were influenced by many other fictional characters including the Shadow and Sherlock Holmes. Batman is the superhero persona of wealthy playboy and corporate executive Bruce Wayne. By day, Bruce Wayne is responsible for leading Wayne Enterprises, a company that has been owned and operated by the Wayne family for generations. By night, Bruce Wayne becomes the Caped Crusader known as the Batman and wages war on crime in the streets of Gotham and beyond. When Bruce Wayne was 8 years old, his parents Thomas and Martha Wayne were shot and killed in front of Bruce in an alley outside of an movie theater. After that night, Bruce made a vow to spend the rest of his life fighting crime to ensure no one suffers the same fate as his parents did. Bruce has travelled the world in search of knowledge in fighting, detective work, information technology, chemistry, and more to become the strongest a man without any superpowers can become.
Text can be organized like this to make the information easier to read:
Creation of Batman
Batman is one of the greatest fictional superheroes of all time. Batman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939 after DC Comics wanted another hero in addition to Superman, who was created in 1938. Batman's creators were influenced by many other fictional characters including the Shadow and Sherlock Holmes.
Who is Batman?
Batman is the superhero persona of wealthy playboy and corporate executive Bruce Wayne. By day, Bruce Wayne is responsible for leading Wayne Enterprises, a company that has been owned and operated by the Wayne family for generations. By night, Bruce Wayne becomes the Caped Crusader known as the Batman and wages war on crime in the streets of Gotham and beyond.
When Bruce Wayne was 8 years old, his parents Thomas and Martha Wayne were shot and killed in front of Bruce in an alley outside of an movie theater. After that night, Bruce made a vow to spend the rest of his life fighting crime to ensure no one suffers the same fate as his parents did.
Batman's Training
Bruce has travelled the world in search of:
knowledge in fighting,
detective work,
information technology,
chemistry,
and more
to become the strongest a man without any superpowers can become.
Larger text indicate headings or serve as short descriptions about what the text below is about.
Lists - bulleted or numbered - help make sections of text stand out.
You can use the structure of the content to find information more quickly. For example, if you were interested in learning more about who created Batman, looking under the Creation of Batman header for the information would be a good start.
How to Use Pictures
Pictures like text can be organized in any number of different ways. Pictures commonly appear throughout a site. A collection of pictures is usually shown in a slideshow or gallery where you can move between pictures in the collection. Try moving between the pictures in the gallery below.
Try It Out!
Try using the gallery below. The gallery will change pictures automatically. To change the pictures yourself, left click the left side or right side of the gallery.
Gallery 1. A Collection of Batman Pictures
How to Use Music
Music can start playing when a web page appears in your browser or when you tell it to play. For example, the controls below will allow you to play a sound. While music controls can be different, they all have same common features.
To start playing the sound, press the
or play button.To stop or pause playing the sound, press the
or stop button.The volume is controlled by left clicking the
or speaker icon and dragging the dot up to make the sound louder and down to make the sound softer.If you can't hear the sound below, make sure to increase the volume of your device's speaker.
Try It Out!
Try start playing and stopping the podcast below using the play and stop buttons.
Music 1. The following is the first podcast from a science fiction podcast called Welcome to Nightvale. Podcasts are like modern day radio programs that span a variety of topics. To play this podcast, press the Play button. To learn more about Welcome to Nightvale, please follow this hyperlink: http://commonplacebooks.com/
How to Use Video
Like music, video can also start when a web page appears or when you tell it to play. Video controls can also be different but also share common features that are similar to the music controls.
Picture 1. How to Play a Video
Try It Out!
Try playing a video from the DC Public Library below by left clicking the triangle button in the middle of the video.
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