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| Netscape Composer is a web-authoring tool: it allows you to create web pages without learning Hyper Text Mark-Up Language (HTML). You can also save your Composer documents to a disc, where they will behave as if they were web pages (i.e. you can link from document to document). | ||
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| Some Basic Rules When you save your document, always save as an HTML document. It will have the extension .html or .htm For example, this document you are reading is called mmnetscape.htm. Always be consistent in naming your files. Make them all .htm or all .html files. Never use capital letters, spaces, slashes, hyphens or periods in the name of your document (except for the period before the extension htm or html). This makes life much easier when you are linking documents together and if you decide to post them to a web page. Write down the names of your files as you create them. As you will be learning how to link from one document to another, you will always need to know the name of the document to which you are linking. It is very easy to forget the names of documents you create. Always save all the files you are linking together to to the same place (a floppy disc, the Desktop, the same folder in My Documents, etc.). Then you can preview your links easily. Do not save individual files in different places. |
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| Using Netscape 1) To create a new page in Netscape Composer, open Netscape as your browser. Click on the File pull-down menu (top, left-hand corner) on the Netscape browser menu. Then select New.Then select Composer Page to start from scratch. A blank "page" composer page looks very much like a blank word-processing page, and you can use the menus along the top to change font size, color and alignment, for example. 2) To create a link, highlight the text that you want to turn into a link, then click on the Link icon, or go to the Insert menu and click on Link. Type the name of the file to which you want to link into the Link to page location or local file box (don't forget to include the .htm or .html extension). Click OK. 3) To change page backgrounds and colors of links, click on the Format menu, and go to Page Colors and Bckgrounds. 4) To preview you page, and see how it would look in a web browser, and to check if your links work, click the Preview tab in the menu across the bottom of your active window. Always remember that the page with the composer icon For more on using Netscape Composer, go to:- |
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learning || lesley smith: fall 2003 new century college in the college of arts and sciences george mason university fairfax va 22032 last updated: 3 november 2003 |