With Internet telephony, you can ............. A voice call from your computer to another person's computer, landline or mobile phone.

You can download ................ Software such as Skype or Net2Phone from the Net, and it's even free.

People also use more .......................... Chat conferencing or bulletin board systems to communicate online.

Note that during chat sessions, ........................ Type messages to each other rather than communicate by voice.

Chat software can be used on the Web with your browser to conduct online chat .................. With other users and can accommodate between 50 and 1,000 users simultaneously.

Some companies even use chat conferencing on their websites to .................................... Communication with customers.

Chat rooms can be good venues to meet people and discuss topics of ......................... interest.

Many IM services now offer audio and video capabilities, so if you have a microphone and a webcam, you can chat and ................................... Who you're talking to.

When any of the contacts on your list is online, you can start a ..................... Chat with that person.

When you launch your IM software, it ........................ With the service's IM server and logs you on.

By ............................... On a name you can send text-based messages to that person.

After you ............................... Your note and click on the Send button, the message travels to the IM server, then immediately forwards to your buddy's computer.

You can also chat in incredible 3-D worlds that are .................... By other users, for example Second Life.

The code behind most web pages is HTML, which .................. Of commands called tags.

Tags are placed around pieces of text to tell the web browser how to .......................... Text or pictures.

You can view the source HTML code of a web page by choosing the Page Source ......................... In your web browser.

You can use a word processor with web ................................ Capabilities or a dedicated web editor like Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage.

Different buttons and menu items let you ....................... A page without writing HTML.

You could use HTML ...................... To specify the font, text styles and background colour.

If you want to share information with people, you can use RSS feeds and provide readers with a ....................... To the feed.

RSS allows subscribers to ............................... Updates of blogs, news, podcasts, etc.

Many websites now ........................... Audio files, and if you're designing a site, you may like to insert songs, podcasts, etc.

If you want to inject something special into your web pages, you can use Adobe Flash to ................................ Interactive animations and streaming audio.

You can ......................... Java applets - small programs that enable the creation of interactive files.