Working with Netscape Composer

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Working with Netscape Composer
Personal Website

• Idowu Adewale
• Website http//cpsc.ucalgary.ca/adewale
• E-mail adewale_at_cpsc.ucalgary.ca
• Office Hours Wednesdays 7-8pm Fridays 12-4pm
  _at_ ES 650

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Agenda

• Apply background color or image
• Use of paragraphs to format texts
• Insert images
• Create lists (numbered or bulleted)
• Insert hypertext links to pages within website
• Insert hypertext links to pages outside website
• Insert hypertext links to e-mail addresses

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Getting started

• To open Netscape Composer, either
• Double-click the Netscape Communicator icon on
  your desktop
• Select CommunicatorComposer
• OR
• Select StartProgramsNetscape CommunicatorNetsca
  pe Composer

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Applying background color or image

• Open an existing html file or create a new one
• Right-click on the page
• Select Page Properties
• Select Colors and Background
• Click on the Background Color button to change
  the background color
• Click on Choose File to select a background
  image
• Click OK

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Using Paragraphs to format texts

• Select the text to format
• Right-click and select Paragraph/List Properties
• Format the text based on the presented choices

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Inserting images

• Select InsertImage
• Select Choose File
• Apply other settings to control things like image
  size, text alignment and wrapping around the
  image, e.t.c
• Click OK

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Creating lists

• Place your insertion point where you want the
  list to begin
• Right-click and select Paragraph/List Properties
• Select List Item as the paragraph style
• For the List Style, select any of these
• Bullet (Unnumbered list)
• Numbered list
• Click OK

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Inserting hypertext links to pages within website

• Select the text to hyperlink
• Right-click and select Create Link Using
  Selected
• Select Choose File to specify file to link to
• Remove all path information leaving only the file
  name in the Link To box
• Click OK

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Inserting hypertext links to pages outside website

• Select the text to hyperlink
• Right-click and select Create Link Using
  Selected
• In the Link to box, type the URL of the web page
  you want to link to
• Click OK

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Inserting hypertext links to e-mail
addresses

• Select the text to hyperlink
• Right-click and select Create Link Using Selected
• In the Link To box, type
• mailtoYourE-mailAddress
• Click OK

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