Odds & Ends
The H line
On the top of the toolbar you will see the H line. This
is a way of adding a break without having to add a divider or kb size to
your page. I use one at the bottom of all my pages before my last
info such as visitor number and email info. And after you add the
H line, just right click on it if you want to alter it any. And I
usually use the center command to center the H line.
Alternate Text
Ok.....why would you want it? Well......let's say you have a lot
of images loading on a page. If you've used alternate text, a text
box will come up while the image is loading which gives the visitor information
on what they are waiting for. Also, some people have images turned
off while they are browsing the web, so this let's them know what would
be there if they turned their images back on. To add alternate text,
right click on your image. Choose Alternate Text. Now, type
in what you want there and say ok. Put your mouse over the image.....do
you see that the text shows up?


Checking work in another
browser
Speaking of browser to browser. You have been working in Composer.
Once the page has been saved you can go to file and open page. If
you still have the current page open in Composer, you will get a window
that will have a choice of opening the page in Composer on top, Navigator
below it. Choose Navigator to see how the page is looking.
If you have added sounds, you will hear them in Navigator too. And
none of this has been done online. You are working strictly offline.
Furthermore, what I often do is to go to the saved html file and
double click on it. My IE automatically opens up any html files I
double click on. You may get the message about going online, but
you don't want to. Now, it's important to see how your page looks
in the IE browser too. If you see a problem, you can make adjustments
in the Netscape Composer and then reload the page in IE to see how it went.
Some edits though will require opening the page in Notepad. This
will be covered in the Notepad html editing tutorial.
In fact, I often make those slight edits in Notepad with the page
open in IE. Once you've gone through the editing tutorial, it will
be easy for you too.
Adding special codes
Last thing: Type in your visitor info such as: You are visitor
no. since May 1, 1988, and your copyright, etc. Copyright symbol:
Alt 0169, Reserved symbol: Alt 0174

When you have saved your page, or after the last save I should
say, you run notepad, open one of your other pages with the counter code
on it, copy that code, open the new page, and paste in the code from your
other page right after the no. and before the since if you are using
the words:
You are visitor no. since May 1, 1998 (sample date).
Don't worry, there is a
notepad tutorial!
Remember to just go to start, run, type in the word notepad, and it
brings up notepad for you. Then go to open, browse to your web folder
where the page is, and change the "open file type" from text to html.
After you paste in the code, save the file and you are ready to upload
if you have finished putting any sound codes in.
It is important to note here that Netscape screws over things like
counter codes. There is a command that will keep it from messing
up your counter code, but not webring or link exchange codes. I'll
help you setup counters and give you the way to keep them safe in the Notepad
tutorial, but here's what I do for webrings and link exchange codes.
I keep the code as a text file in the folder with the html. After
I work on a page that has that code, I then open it up in Notepad and also
open up the code text. I copy the saved text code and paste it over
the messed up code on the html page.
In defense of Netscape, it isn't the only editor that messes up codes.
Codes are tricky and should be saved somewhere safe as a text file.
Speaking of html versus htm. When you go to save your page
in Netscape and you have named it, if you don't type in the .html it will
save it as .htm. Oh.....speaking of saving. When you
get the basics of the page set up, save the file then in case Netscape
crashes and you could lose your work. After that, save every now
and then as you go along. Have the folder set up ahead of time where
you are going to save the page. When you save, it will place everything
in that folder. Now don't get confused but.....you only needed to
type that html in once. Once you've saved it as html it won't revert
back to htm when you aren't looking. You'll understand all this after
you have made a few html's in Netscape and saved them.
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