Netscape Composer:  An Introduction

The following tutorials are designed to introduce you to the basic functions of Netscape Composer, a web page editor that is part of both Netscape Gold (v. 3.x) and Netscape Communicator (v. 4).  Using this editor, you can do almost everything you need to do to create a basic web page.  The one notable exception is forms:  Composer cannot generate forms automatically.

• Netscape Composer (editor) vs. Netscape Navigator (browser)
• Editing vs. viewing
• Moving back and forth
• Review of the basics
• Minimizing, recalling
• Cut, copy and paste
• Undo
• Save and Reload
• Setting up your page
• Background and Text Colors
• Page Title
• Keywords
• Changing Page Properties
• Working with Text
• Headings
• Fonts, Font sizes, colors
• Styles (bold, italics, underlined)
• Bullet Lists
• Numbered Lists
• Indents
• Alignment
• Spell check
• Working with Links
• Links
• The "mailto" link
• Targets
• Changing links or targets
• Removing a link
• Working with Images
• Inserting an image
• Resizing an image
• Making an image a link
• Deleting an image
• Working with tables
• Setting up a table
• Border vs. no border
• Alignment of a table
• Changing background or colors of a table
• Moving around in a table
• What can you put in the cells of a table?
• Adding or deleting parts of a table
• Changing table properties

• What about the rest?
• Forms
• Viewing and editing HTML source code
• Goodies and Freebies

• Publishing Your Web Page
• Setting the Default Location
• POOSH the button!

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