Vocabulary

Netscape Communicator - Combined package of Internet software incorporating a browser, email, and html software

Netscape Navigator - The browser inside of Netscape Communicator - Software that explores the Internet

Netscape Composer - Software that allows a user to create simple web pages using html

Steps to Creating a Link Page

1) Launch Netscape Composer
All Netscape Communicator tools are located in the bottom, right corner of the Netscape screen

2) Click the Composer button on the bottom right hand corner of the screen.

3) Choose a background for your page following the steps below.

• Choose Format - Go to Page Colors and Properties.
• Click on the Colors and Background Tab.
• You may choose a color scheme or use a downloaded image from the Internet.
• This is also the area where you may give your page a title

4) Format your title using the Navigation bar at the top of the screen. This works very similar to Microsoft Word or ClarisWorks.

5) Insert an Image to stylize your page

• Click on the Image Button or
• Go to Insert and down to Image on the menu bar
• Click on Choose File to pick an image
• There is no clip art gallery for Composer so all of your images must be downloaded and saved or taken from another clip art gallery
  (To go to the Microsoft Office Clip Art Gallery, Go to C: - Program Files - Microsoft Office - ClipArt)
• Change the alignment of the text by clicking on one of the buttons showing text wrapping

6) Use tables to organize you links

• Click on the Table Button or
• Go to Insert and down to Table, then Table on the menu bar
• Choose the number of rows and columns for your table
• Change the Table width to the size of the screen you want it to appear on
• Uncheck Equal Column width

7) Link your text

• Highlight the text you wish to link
• Click the Link Button or
• Go to Insert and down to Link
• Type the address that you wish to link to

8) Once your table is completed, save the page.

9) Click on the Preview Button to see what your page looks like as a web page. (Notice your page opens in Netscape Navigator.)

10) Close the preview and make any adjustments to the look of your page.

Hints

Make a folder on your hard drive for your History links

1) Double Click My Computer
2) Double Click the C: drive
3) Go to File - down to New - Over to Folder
4) Rename your folder to something that's easy to remember

There are mass amounts of free clip art on the Internet!

1) Go to Netscape Navigator and access the web
2) Click on Search
3) Type in "Free Clip Art" and search for it
You will find thousands of addresses, weed through them carefully!

Downloading Images from the Internet

1) Find the image you want to keep
2) Right click (MAC - Hold down button) with the pointer over top of the image
3) Go down to Save Image As
4) Find a folder that you can remember
5) Rename the picture
6) Click save

Adding Row or Columns to tables that you have already made

1) Click on the table you wish to change
2) Go to Insert on the menu bar
3) Move down to Table and over to Row or Column

Click here to go to an example created by Kathy Spar, Integrated Technology Services, February 2000

Jeff Sisk
Assitive Technology Services
Fairfax County Public Schools
1999