1. A beginner’s guide to email Webmail

2. What do you need? A computer, or a smartphone An internet connection An account with an email service provider

3. What does it cost? Nothing for the email service Just the cost of your internet connection

4. Benefits? Fast communication with other email users Needed for using many web services Can send files as attachments

5. Drawbacks Not secure Risk of malware Junk mail (spam)

6. How it works

7. Main functions Compose new message Send message Receive message Reply Forward Attachments Address/contacts list

8. The email address

9. Setting up an account Go to www.yahoo.co.uk, or www.google.co.uk, or www.hotmail.co.uk, and click on the sign up linkwww.yahoo.co.uk www.google.co.ukwww.hotmail.co.uk Fill in the form Make a record of your user name and password!

10. Logging in Go to the sign in page, and enter your user name and password

11. Checking mail If the Inbox link has a number beside it, you have that number of messages waiting to be read