Gmail for beginners

If you have a gmail account, you will find the below information useful. If you don't consider yourself an expert on everything related to the internet and if some of the nuances still puzzle you, you will find the information very useful. With every post, we will try to explain a small thing to make online life easier for you. Let's take a look at Gmail in a little more detail today.

If you use Internet Explorer as your default browser (as most of us do), it'll be easier for you to follow this post. Below is what you see when you type www.gmail.com in the browser's address bar:


Once logged in, you'll be delighted with the plethora of features and shortcuts that Gmail offers. It is Ajax based, which means the page will not load unnecessarily every time you choose to read or reply to an email. You can tag your email for easy retrieval later. With close to 2GB of storage available, you wouldn't even need to delete messages. And coping with a stuffed inbox couldn't be easier. With Gmail, you can archive your messages and then search for them whenever you want to go back to an earlier message.

You can even set alerts in Gmail. If you are following a word/phrase (your name, perhaps) on the internet, alerts give you a daily message on where the word/phrase appeared on the internet. All of the internet! Keeping tab on items of interest also couldn't be easier.

So go ahead and register for a free Gmail account today! It's one choice you wouldn't regret making.