Using Netscape Composer 7.2/SeaMonkey Composer
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- Why SeaMonkey?
- SeaMonkey Composer is a powerful web page editor. It allows you to easily create web pages, and it allows you to easily switch between different modes of editing as your needs advance. If you never want to see any HTML tags, you can edit all of your pages in Preview. If you want to occasionally switch to seeing only your HTML tags, you can quickly switch to HTML Source or to HTML Tag view, make your change, and then return to the familiar Preview…
- Preferences
- In Netscape Composer’s Preferences, there is a section for “Composer”.
- Create a New Web Page
- Create a new web page by pulling down the “File” menu, choosing the “New” submenu, and then the “Composer Page” item. This brings up a blank page.
- Easy Web Design: Linking
- One of the major advantages of the HTML format over older hyperlinking protocols was that HTML pages can contain links to other pages as part of the normal content. Any text or image in your content can be linked to any other web page on the web. You can also link it to “anchors” within the same document, automatically scrolling the page to that anchor when the viewer selects that link.
- Easy Web Design: Images
- We’re going to divert ourselves here for a moment and discuss images. Netscape Composer does not itself edit images. You will need a separate application for working with images. You can find very good shareware or open source image editors (I like GraphicConverter and GIMP) or you can use commercial image editors such as Adobe Photoshop.
- Easy Web Design: Tables
- Tables are a way of displaying data in rows and columns, much like a spreadsheet. You can make tables in Composer almost as easily as you can make them in your word processor. If you already have the data in a spreadsheet or a database, you may want to look and see if your application supports saving as an HTML table.
- Easy Web Design: HTML Code
- Netscape gives you four views on your document. Normally, you’ll use the “Normal” view. This allows you to edit your page and see basically what it will look like on the web. There are three other views: HTML Tags, HTML Source, and Preview.
- Styling with Style
- Netscape provides simple menu and toolbar access to the most commonly-used style changes, but you have a lot more options available to you. In order to access them, you need to be in the “HTML Tag” view.
- Special Features
- Special Features in Easy Web Design
- Easy Web Design: JavaScript
- JavaScript is a means of adding dynamic content to your web page without having to have access to the server. Your programs are embedded into your web page and stay there until they reach the client. The client’s web browser than runs the program and displays the dynamic content or does the action on the client’s end.
- Advanced Styling
- So far, we’ve used styles only at their most basic level: changing one item at a time. But if you want to give your site a consistent look and feel, styles can help you out. You can change all level 2 headings, for example, to be aligned right without going to each level 2 heading.
- Easy Web Design: Copyright
- It is very easy to copy and paste text and images off of other web sites. But all text and all images have a copyright attached to them unless the owner specifically places the item in the “public domain”. Owners can also allow you to use their text and images while retaining copyright themselves. They might, for example, place some images online and give you permission to use them but not distribute them; many “wallpaper” images to customize…
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- Open Source License in Easy Web Design
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