The manual was prepared in the Internet center of the St. Petersburg branch of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) and was used in the teaching of the training course "Fundamentals of professional work with Internet information resources". The manual discusses the following topics: effective navigation on the Web; Search on the Internet ; organization of subscription to the contents of Web nodes, creation of selected pages and management of elements of the Active Desktop ; saving, editing and printing Web pages ; browser configuration and resolution of typical problems. Control questions (tests) and answers to them are given