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Chances are you're in the right
neighborhood, and with a little looking around you can get
where you're going. It's not quite as easy as driving around
the block, but with a combination of guesswork and
trial-and-error, you might be able to find the right page.
Here's how:
In your browser's Address
or Location bar, delete the file name from the end of
the Web address, remember, that's the part that follows the
last forward slash. For example, you'll trim http://www.E-List.Net.net/support/browse/index.html,
to read http://www.E-List.Net/support/browse/. After
pressing the ENTER or RETURN key, you'll likely see one of
three things: a default Web page, a directory listing, or
another error message.
If what you see is a list of files
in that directory, pick through them to find the page you're
looking for. If you see a Web page, read through the
contents for clues to the page you're looking for, or use
the search option if there's one available.
If you get a different error
message, there may still be a problem with the Web address.
Try removing another segment. By continuing to remove parts
of a Web address, you are attempting to locate and delete
incorrect information until the address can at least get you
to the correct Web site.
In the example we've given you
here, you'll find, after removing a directory, that you get
an existing Web page, rather than an error page. That's a
good indicator that you've found and removed the part of the
address that's incorrect. And if you look in the main
section of the page, you'll hopefully find a link to what
you want. Click it, and you've arrived.
Just to recap, what we're doing
here is removing, section by section, parts of the address
until we land on a Web page (instead of an error page),
where we can then use the site's navigation to locate the
page we're after.
If you have stripped the entire
directory path and file name from the address and still
receive errors, you can try alternate spellings of the
domain, for instance if the address ends with .com,
type .org instead. But by this point, you might be
better off going back to your trusty search engine.
The important thing to remember is
that a Web address is a path to a location. It may not take
you exactly where you want to go, but it may get you close
enough.
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