General Instructions for Using Netscape Composer 
1. Start Netscape
2. Under "File", open a "new  page" in Composer, and play around with Page Colors and Format (PC’s) or Page Format (Mac) to try out different color combinations.
3. It is easiest to make things stay in the position you intend if you put all text in Tables. Use separate tables for each item or group of items that you want lined up vertically on the page. For example, use a separate table for the Title, one for any Text you choose to put on the page, any pictures that stretch the width of the page, and a separate table with your "navigation buttons" in them. Make 2 column tables for text where you want a picture to the side of the text. Leave the 1 pixel border around tables for now. Later you can remove them if you want, but the cell walls are then not visible, so it is hard to get things into the correct cells while you are in the editing process. Once you have a format you like, you can save the page as anything you want, as long as it is a single word, all lowercase letters, and followed by the .html code.
4. Netscape offers a simple to use "help" section. Open Help from the menu, then click on "Creating Web Pages". You may wish to print out this section for referral. 
5. Periodically, save your page, then open the page in Navigator (instead of Composer) so you can see how it will look to a Web browser. You should also occasionally  open the page in Internet Explorer, since pages sometimes look different depending on the browser used.
6. Later, you will use File Transfer Protocol (ftp) to transfer all your files to a web based file, but for now just save them on your floppy disk. When your portfolio is complete, you may wish to "burn" it onto a CD-ROM.
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