A Wii console with an Internet connection. If you haven’t got connected yet, read this step-by-step tutorial, How to Get Your Wii Online. While optional, a USB keyboard is also extremely useful when web surfing on the Wii. You can use a standard PC wired or wireless keyboard or try a Wii-specific keyboard like Logitech’s. If you don’t have a keyboard you’ll have to use the remote to click letters on a virtual keyboard.
Select Start Shopping, then select Wii Channels. Scroll down ands select Internet Channel. Download the channel.
Once it’s downloaded select OK and then go back to the Wii Menu, where you will see you have a new channel called the Internet Channel.
On the start page, there are three big buttons, one to Search for something on the Internet, one to input a web address, and a Favorites button that lists websites you have bookmarked.
To the right is a picture of the Wii remote, selecting that will tell you what each button does.
There is also an operations guide that gives a detailed explanation of the browser, and a settings option to change the way the browser operates.
There is also a button that takes you back to the start page. Finally, there is a smaller button, a lowercase i in a circle, that when clicked will tell you the title and web address of the page you’re on and let you edit that address or send it to anyone on your Wii friends list.
Navigate pages with the remote. Pressing the A button is the same as clicking the mouse button on a computer. Holding the B button and moving the remote scrolls the page. The plus and minus buttons are used for zooming in and out and the 2 button lets you toggle between a normal display and one in which the page is displayed as one long single column, which is useful for dealing with elaborately formatted websites. If you set the toolbar to Button Toggle in the settings then you can toggle the toolbar on and off with the 1 button.
There are two zoom settings, manual and automatic. Zooming is done with the plus and minus buttons on the remote. If you have “smooth” selected then when you zoom in the text will come towards you slowly and evenly until you let go. With an automatic zoom, pressing the plus button zooms in to show you the text you clicked on filling the whole screen, while minus zooms you out to a standard view.
Toolbar
The toolbar setting controls the behavior of the navigation toolbar that appears on the bottom of the screen. Always display means you always see the toolbar, Auto-Hide means the toolbar disappears when you move your cursor off it and appears when you move the cursor to the bottom of the screen. Button Toggle lets you turn the toolbar off and on by pressing the 1 button.
Search engine
Choose whether your default search engine is Google or Yahoo.
Delete cookies
When you visit websites they often create cookies, small files containing information such as when you last visited the site or whether you want to remain permanently logged in. If you want to remove all these files, click this.
Adjust Display
This allows you to tweak the width of the browser, useful if it doesn’t reach the edges of the screen.
Proxy Settings
Proxy Settings are an advanced concept. The vast majority of Wii users will never need this. If you do need to change your proxy settings, you probably know more about the subject than we do.
