Creating Your Own Home Page

Creating a web page using Netscape is very easy if you know where to go.  In this schematic I will use Netscape's Page Wizard to create a first draft of a web page and then use Netscape Communicator to edit the draft and publish it to the web. At the end instructions are provided for those who have gone to the dark side (e.g. Bill's world) and want to use Micorsoft stuff!
 
 
Getting Ready to Use the Netscape Page Wizard

    1.   In Netscape Communicator go to File>>New>>Page From Wizard
                This provides the author with the Netscape Page Wizard
    2.   Read the introduction provided by Netscape and depress the Start button

Using the Netscape Page Wizard
    1.   Click on the give your page a title link and type the phrase you would like the title of your page to
          be  in the dialog box on the bottom of the wizard.
                 Something like Advanced Vector GIS Home Page
    2.   Depress the Apply button to enter and preview the title you entered
    3.   Click on the type an introduction link and type a paragraph to tell the visitors to your page the
          contents of the page.
    4.   Depress the Apply button to enter and preview the introduction you entered
    5.   Click on the add some hot links. Type the links name and URL in the dialog box and press apply to
          enter and preview your link.
              Step 5 can be repeated up to 4 times to add more links
    6.   Click on the type a paragraph of text to serve as a conclusion. This is the point to
          write an apologetic paragraph to describe what will be done on the page later
    7.   Click on the add an email link. Enter your email address and press Apply.
           This allows visitors to submit emails to you
    8.   Next click on the a preset color combination link. And choose a template for the colors on your web
          page.
    9.   You can edit all the color styles in your web page:     10.   You can also edit the style of bullets and horizontal lines by pressing:     11.   To complete the wizard depress the Build button.
                This will show your first draft of your page in Netscape Communicator
    12.   Save this page locally so you will always have a copy to work with
Editing Your First Draft

    1.   To begin Editing your first draft select File>>Edit Page while the page is open in Netscape
          Communicator
                 This opens an editable draft of your page in Netscape Composer
    2.   Netscape Composer is a What You See Is What You Get interface so anything you
          change will be changed on your page once it is saved. From this interface you can do
          many things such as:

    3.   Some things I did in Composer to create my home page was:
    4.   Centered the intro and conclusion by highlighting the paragraph and selecting
          Format>>Align>>Center
Publishing Your Web Page

    1.   In Netscape Composer depress the Publish button on toolbar
    2.   Enter the location you want to publish your page at.
    3.   Files associated with the file (usually images) will be selectable in the dialog box
               Remember to publish these files or your page will be incomplete
    4.  Depress OK

Using Microsoft Word to Create Web Pages

If you want to sell your soul to Bill Gates, like I am doing for this document, you can create web pages in Microsoft Word
    1.  Open a new word document and save it as HTML: File>>Save as
             HTML…
    2.  Complete your document
    3.  Copy the document onto your clip board
    4.  Open the page you want to publish to in Netscape Composer
    5.  Select the position in the page you want the document to be placed, and paste (C-v)
    6. Save

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