WEB 101 - Using Netscape Composer
You will be creating a California Mission Home Page.
You will be writing about your classroom's California Mission Project and you will learn to make links from your home page to your student's work.
What will we be doing today?
1. Create and save a page
2. Insert, align and resize an Image
3. Write, resize and align Text
4. Use Spell Check
5. Create a Link
6. Create a Background
7. Publish your Page
Let's begin!
1. Creating your first page
Find Netscape Communicator
Open Netscape Communicator
Open blank page in composer
2. Save the document
Go to the File on the menu bar
Click and hold slide down to save
On the save window click on the desktop button
Create new folder by click on new folder button
Name folder with your name and suffix .web
Give this page a name
Save this page in your folder
3. Create a title
The title should be about the California Mission Project and your class
Center the text using align button on the took bar
Choose font
Use Netscape tool bar click hold and move down to font
Set font to 36 point
Use Netscape tool bar click hold and move down or use tool bar on
composer by clicking and choosing number
You may set the color and styles at a later time
4. Insert an image
Click on the image button on the toolbar
Click on "Choose File"
Click desktop
Find the folder with your image and open it
Choose your image and click open
Click on OK to insert the image onto your page
Use indent tools to center picture
5. Resize images
Double click on image
On the editing window chose custom size
Using the pop down menu choose "% of window"
Set a percentage number
Click OK
6. Write caption below picture
Write paragraph about your class project
Align paragraph with the image using the indent tools on the toolbar
You may need to use the RETURN Key at the end of lines
Choose font and size
7. Spell check
Use button on toolbar
8. Insert horizontal line
Between the title and your image, add a line
Click button on toolbar
Set the size of the line as you wish
9a Insert links to your students work
Click the links button on toolbar
In the link window write name of the link in the "Link Text" box
Write the file name in the box in the form of
laquisha.html
Write a description of the link
9b. Insert links to other web sites
Before doing this find a WEB site you wish to link to
Write down the address of the page
Click in links button on toolbar
In the link window write name of the link in the "Link Text" box
Write the address in the "URL" box in the form of
www.laep.org
Write a description of links
10. Set Background / text / link color / image
Click format on the Netscape menu bar
Slide down to "Page Properties"
Click on "Use Custom Colors"
Pick colors for all text and links
If you wish to have a picture as your background
Click on the image button
On the menu that pops up make sure you are at your folder
Chose the image and click open
Click on OK
Save document
11. View as a WEB page
Click the Viewing button on the document toolbar (looks like ship's
wheel)
12. Publish the document
You will transfer your folder to a WEB server
You will then be able to see the page you created on the WEB
from any computer in the world that has an Internet connection
and a WEB Browser. Please talk to your Technology Coordinator
about publishing to the Web
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