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Netscape Composer Tutorial
Like FrontPage, Netscape Composer allows you to add tables, images, text and hyperlinks to a Web
page with no knowledge of HTML. It comes free with Netscape Communicator versions 4.0 and up.
You can download Communicator here.
This is a brief tutorial on how to create a basic Web page using Composer.
Look at the lower right hand corner of the screen you will see an icon that resembles a sheet of
paper and a pen. Left click on the icon to start Composer
Creating your Web Page
STEP 1 Getting Started
1.Click the New Page button on the Composition toolbar
2. A pop-up window will appear and choose Blank Page.You see the Composer window with a blank page, and toolbars at the top.
3. Save button on the Composition toolbar. You see a dialog box where you can enter a filename.
STEP 2 Setting up Page Properties
1. Right click in on a white empty area of the page. A pop-up menu will appear.
2. Highlight and left click on Page Properties. A dialog box will appear.
3. Click on the tab at the top of the dialog box that says General.
4. Type in the title of your web page in the beside the word Title. Type in your name beside the word Author.
5. Then click on the tab at the top of the dialog box that says Colors and Background.
6. On the dialog box, you will see a color palette of 5 colors. The bottom color is for choosing background color. Click on color palette next to background color. A pop-up color palette will appear. Choose the color you want.
7. After all you have made all your selections, on the dialog box click Apply and then click OK
STEP 3 Entering Text
1. Before you begin typing text, you can set your font style, size, and color by by using the formatting toolbar.
2. Once you have text, if you decide you want to change any of these formats, you can do so by highlighting the text you wish to change and following the steps A through C again.
STEP 4 Alignment of Text
Use the formatting tool bar for to select alignment (Left, Center, Right)
STEP 5 Insert Hyperlinks
1. In the composition toolbar, select the Link button.
2. A dialog box will appear. Click on the Link tab at the top of the dialog box.
3. Under Link Source enter the text to be displayed for the new link.
4. Under Link To enter the URL of the site you want to link to.
5. Click on Apply and then Close.
STEP 6 Insert Images
1. After finding an image on the Net you wish to include in your Web Page, right click on the image and a pop-menu will appear. Choose the option Save Image As.
2. Return to your web page, on the composition tool bar choose the image button.
3. An image location dialog box will appear. You can choose a file by clicking on the choose file button.
4. Another dialog box will appear. Remember to look in Windows Temp when looking for the file. Choose the file name of the image from the Windows Temp file.
STEP 7 SAVE
1. To save your web page, click on the save button in the composition toolbar.
Now you must Publish your files online
This particular program is not user friendly at all as it totally ignores much of what ArisHost has set up as its defaults to make publishing via FTP easy.
Here are the steps to follow for publishing your document.
1. After opening Composer and constructing your HTML file, you should save a copy to your hard drive, just in case.
2. With the pertinent document open in Composer, go to the File menu and select Publish. This will open a pop-up window. In this pop-up window you will first set the title of your page, then the filename. Make sure you type in the filename correctly, as UNIX is case sensitive. In addition, typing the filename incorrectly will result in a broken link.
3. The next thing you see will be the "HTTP or FTP Location to publish to:" box. This is the unfriendly part of the program. In this box you are going to type in the absolute FTP pathname to the directory into which you are publishing. For example if filename is your file that you wish to publish:
ftp://yourdomain.com/filename
4. Next you are going to fill in your username and password. For your username, enter your domain name. If you plan on using this publishing software a lot, you can click on the Save Password checkbox.
5. The last thing in this pop-up window is the "Other files to include" section. If you built your entire site in one directory, and you want to upload it all at once, you are going to select "All pages in this folder." Otherwise, you probably just want to leave it as the default setting.
6. Click "OK."
Congratulations! You have finished uploading using Netscape Composer
USEFUL LINKS
NETSCAPE- Communicator Information and Support
Netscape Composer Tips and Tricks
Sympatico's Help for Netscape Composer
Netscape Communicator FAQ- Netscape Composer
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