Netscape Composer Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to use Netscape Composer to create web pages. Netscape Composer integrates powerful What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) document creation capabilities into Netscape Communicator's already rich set of World Wide Web features. In addition to electronic mail, threaded discussion group, and file transfer features included in Netscape Communicator, Composer makes composing for the Web, email, or newsgroups a simple cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop process.

The document creation capabilities in Netscape Composer are designed to provide both experienced and beginning content creators with a simple yet powerful solution for editing and publishing online documents. WYSIWYG editing allows first-time users to create dynamic online documents easily and publish them to local file systems and remote servers with ease.

An overview of Composer and its features

There are a lot of things you can do with Composer:

• Work in a WYSIWYG environment. You can see the results of paragraph and font tags applied as you type.
• Add, remove and modify text. Click on any part of a downloaded Web page and immediately work with text and images.
• Drag-and-Drop. Drag-and-drop hyperlinks and images from the bookmark, mail, news, or browse windows, to a document in the editor (Windows and Macintosh only). You can also drag an HTML or image file from the Windows File Manager (Explorer in Windows 95) and drop it in an edit window.
• Publish your documents on the Internet. Simplify the process of posting pages to a server by using one button to copy your files from your local hard disk to a remote directory or server.
• Format text to suit your needs. You can apply paragraph and character styles to text just as you would in your favorite word-processing application.
• Change font, font size and color. Use these features to create pages that focus a reader's attention where you want.
• Include objects in your pages. You can insert tables, images, horizontal lines, and hyperlinks in the Web documents you create.
• Edit JavaScript statements. Include JavaScript in your documents. JavaScript is an open, cross-platform object scripting language for enterprise networks and the Internet.

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