Internet Explorer 8 Review - Design
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In terms of layout, Internet Explorer 8 has a design very similar to its predecessors. At the topmost left corner, there are the two browser buttons that take the shape of an arrow. These help the surfer browse through previous sites in their cache.
Next to these buttons is the address bar. If you want to surf by URL, you can enter it in here. There are also additional navigation buttons at the end of the bar that will again let you surf the sites in the cache. But this time, you will be navigating through the URLs instead of the sites themselves.
If you decide that you don’t want a site to load in the browser, the address bar contains an ‘X’ that will stop the loading in its tracks.
After the navigation bar, in the topmost right corner of the browser, there’s a Live Search toolbar. The Live Search toolbar acts like a search engine. Enter in any keyword, and the browser will return a list of results related to the query. If you want to search for existing keywords in your queue, select the drop-down arrow.
Now, there’s a second "level" of Internet Explorer 8. It rests just below the address bar and the arrow-like navigation buttons. It’s not very elaborate, as it contains icons that allow the surfer to customize their browsing experience. We’ll talk more about that in a moment.
The layout concludes with the browser window. This is where the actual website will be displayed. There are also even more browsing options. For instance, if you’re browsing through several sites, IE8 will partition them off in various "tabs." Selecting these tabs will display your site(s) of interest one at a time.
At the further right-hand corner of this level are basic menu options. However, to make things easier, they are displayed in the form of icons rather than a drop-down menu. These options include: homepage navigation, RSS feed display, printing, page view and basic browsing tools.
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