PART 6
How to Learn More
The Netscape Help Feature
Netscape Communicator has an online manual accessible from the Help menu. Choose (click):Help | Help and Support Center
From the Help and Support Center window that appears you can choose Contents (the default selection), Search, Index or Glossary to find information.
With Contents selected, click Creating Web Pages (see Figure 1, below), then scroll through the "Creating Web Pages" section of the "table of contents" and follow the appropriate link to get to the topic of interest.
FIGURE 1. Netscape Help:
Contents
Select Search to look for a topic of interest (and type a search string in the text box provided). The Index option gives an alphabetical listing of Netscape features. Use the Glossary option to obtain definitions of terms.
HTML Coding and Web Authoring Sources
HTML Coding
When you create a Web page using Netscape Composer you don't have to do any HTML (HyperText Markup Language) coding. Composer does the coding for you. You can see the underlying codes by viewing your page source (either in Composer or Navigator):View | HTML Source
You can also view coding using the "view" tabs as the bottom of the Composer window. The Show All Tags view displays icons for all HTML tags in the document. The Source view displays the HTML code itself.
A page source file is shown in Figure 3 (below). Notice that the codes work in pairs; that is, there is a beginning and an ending code (or "tag") — such as <H1> to begin Heading 1 and </H1> to end it (the text in between the codes will show on the Web page itself as a first-level heading).
Note: Figure 3 shows the coding for the sample formatted page illustrated in Part 2: Formatting Your Web Page.
FIGURE 2. Page Source Coding
Online Web Authoring Resources
If you would like to delve into the realm of HTML coding and Web authoring, there are numerous online resources to help you. Some recommendations are listed below. As of this writing, the locations listed exist; however, like all sites on the Web, they could disappear at any time. To locate other on-line documentation use one of the Internet search tools available (Google, Hotbot, WebCrawler, or Yahoo for example).- Creating & Publishing a Web Page at CSUN: The Basics (an ITR training guide)
- http://www.csun.edu/itr/guides/webpage.html
- An Introduction to HTML (by Prof. Steven Stepanek)
- http://www.csun.edu/~sgs/htmlintro/index.html
- Introduction to HTML (by Ian Graham)
- http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/htmlindex.html
- Webmonkey: The HTML Basics
- http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/html.html
- Webmonkey Reference: HTML Cheatsheet (list of codes)
- http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/index.html
Other People's Coding
Another way to learn more is to view someone else's "source code". If you see something you like on a Web page, take a look at the HTML coding that created the "look." In Netscape Navigator, choose Page Source from the View Menu.
August 14, 2003
Updated (from Version 4) by Chris Sales, User Support Services
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