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Welcome to Netscape Composer Tutorial non video Lesson 1 First things first lets start up composer. Click on start then scroll up to programs and then to Netscape Composer
should be there.Or
you can use the icon on your browser now.
It is located at the bottom of the
browser. And the last way to get it up and running is to click on the word
comunicator at the top of the browser and scroll down to composer.
Ok with Netscape Composer running lets get started. Lets start with the text in Netscape Composer, in the work area type the words my web page. Now lets save the page you just started, to do that click on the disk icon or go to the word file and scroll down to save as. Either way a save as dialog shows up. For this lesson we will save everything to your hard drive and then in a later lesson we will put it on the internet. So to save this to your hard drive click first make a folder for the web pages. Create your own folder by clicking on the create folder icon and name the new folder my web. Now save your web page in that folder but first type index in the file name box and click save . Now a Page Title box comes up and for this just think of any name and use it for instance Greg's Web Page and then click OK. Note at the top of Netscape Composer that it gives the location on your hard drive where the web page that you just saved is located. It is a good idea to write this down so you can bring it back again later to make changes if you want. Now I want to tell you why I wanted to name the file index, the reason for this name as opposed to any other is because when you go to a web site the very first page a person sees on that site is the index page which is what we are working with now so when you put this on the internet this page will be the first thing everyone sees. Ok now lets do some work to the page, now click on the very left side of the
words we typed earlier (my web page). And then to center these words click on
the alignment button and it scroll down to center
this will center the words you type earlier. The other
functions are the align left - which will take everything to the left of
the page - Now lets put a background on the page as well as setting up the page as a
whole click on format and scroll down to Page Colors and Properties.
A page properties
will come up.
select the background tab and lets go over all this. First click on the
color box for the background and it will display the options of colors, try
some of these now and choose the color you want for the background and then
click OK. Now go back to the page properties again and do the same for the
normal text.
For now leave all the links the same as they are and we will come back to
this later after we make a link. Now lets do a background Image -
To add the image first you have to save the image to your hard drive to do this put your pointer over the image and with the right mouse button click on the image and a dialog will come up scroll to the save picture as and save it to the same place as your web page and now go to the format color and background and from the page properties click in the use image box and then click on the choose file button and then go to where your webpage and image file is located and select the image file and then select ok. Your web page should have the image file as the background. Now is a good time to save the page. Before we move on I want to go over more of the page properties so go to
format and down to background and bring back the page properties box. and now click on the tag
that says General.
So for the title go ahead and personalize it, as an example Greg's web
page. I realize that the only thing on your new web page is the title at the top
but the stuff we went over is important to set up. That's it for Lesson 1 - with the exception of your home work and to print out, and for a reference sheet to print out so that you can reference to later. Thank you for visiting GYEnterprise. I hope it was useful for you and that you return for more, as well as telling your friends about us.
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