Creating HTML Documents with Netscape
  1. Enter Preferences for Netscape:
    1. Open Netscape
    2. Click on Edit… Preferences… Composer
      1. Enter your name next to Author Name
      2. Enter C:\Windows\Notepad.exe for HTML Source
      3. Enter C:\Windows\Pbrush.exe for Images
    3. Click on Edit… Preferences… Composer… PLUS symbol… Publishing
      1. Select Maintain links and Keep images with page
      2. Enter ftp://www.lcusd.net/schoolname/username for Publish to
      3. Enter http://www.lcusd.net/schoolname/username for Browse to
      4. Schoolname is lchs, pcr, pcy, lce or fthls
      5. Username is first letter of first name followed by last name
      6. Thus if Jane Smith teaches at the high school, she would enter www.lcusd.net/lchs/jsmith
    4. Click OK
  2. Creating a New HTML Document from Scratch:
    1. Open Netscape
    2. Click on File… New… Blank Page
    3. Create your page using many of the features in a word processor: font, font size, colors, centering, bullets, etc. You can easily revise your page, later.
    4. To put the tilde over the n in La Caņada, press the Num Lock key, hold the Alt key and press 1,6,4 for a lowercase ņ or 1,6,5 for an uppercase Ņ (use the blue number keys on the laptops). Press the Num Lock key again to get out of that mode.
    5. Save your page: File… Save As… My Documents… Create New Folder – My Website… File name… Name your main page index.html, additional pages will be linked to from this page and can be named most anything you like as long as there are no spaces or capital letters in the name.
    6. Right click on a blank spot of the document and choose Page Properties from the pop-up menu. Select the General tab (upper left) and enter a title for your page and your name next to Author. The other fields are optional and enable some search engines to better identify your page. Select the Colors and Background tap (upper middle) to experiment with text and background colors (if you wish). Choose Apply or OK.
    7. Experiment with horizontal lines and/or tables, etc.
    8. There are two views in Netscape: Edit Page lets you work on your page and publish it, Browse Page lets you view your page and test out your links. Change between the two views by selecting File… Edit Page or File… Browse Page
    9. As you make changes to your webpage you may need to click the reload button to see the changes you have made while in the Browse Page view.
  3. How to Open Your HTML Document:
    1. Double click on My Computer/[C:]/My Documents/My Website/index.html (you may have saved the My Website folder in another location on your hard drive or a diskette)
    2. Change to edit mode by going to File… Edit Page.
    3. Or open it from within Netscape by going to File… Open… etc.
  4. How to Add an Image:
    1. Click on the button named Image
    2. Click on Choose File
    3. Locate the Image on your floppy drive or C: drive
    4. Select the image and double click.
    5. Check that the name of the picture appears in the box next to the choose file button
    6. Click OK
  5. How to Add a Background:
    1. Click on the button named Image
    2. Click on Choose File
    3. Locate the image on your floppy drive or the C: drive
    4. Select the image and double-click
    5. Check that the name of the picture appears in the box next to the choose file button
    6. Put a check in the box that says Use as Background
    7. Click OK
  6. Getting Images From the Internet:
    1. Type the Internet Address in the Location box in Netscape (you must enter the address EXACTLY as it appears on the paper or you won’t find the site)
    2. Free Clip Art and animated gifs can be found at (among other places):
      1. http://www.aplusart.simplenet.com
      2. http://www.barrysclipart.com/
    3. When the page appears, navigate until you find the picture you want
    4. Using the RIGHT BUTTON ON THE MOUSE, Click the Image you want to use
    5. Select SAVE IMAGE AS
    6. Put the Image on your Floppy Disk in the folder that your html document is saved in (It is important for all of the files and images that are part of your website to be in the same folder)
    7. Click OK
    8. When the image is saved, you can put it on your own html document by following the directions for adding an image.
  7. Linking to Other Sites on the Internet:
    1. You can make links from your page to other pages by highlighting any text or image you want to link.
    2. Click the LINK button.
    3. Type in the EXACT address of the page link.
    4. Click OK
  8. Linking to Other HTML Documents you have Created:
    1. You can make additional pages that link off your main page by going into Netscape and selecting File… New… Blank Page
    2. Create the page and then save it with a descriptive name (lowercase and no spaces) and the ending .html, for example, fieldtrips.html.
    3. To link to additional pages from your index page, type something that indicates what the link will be such as Field Trips.
    4. Highlight the text and click on the link icon
    5. In the Link To box, enter the complete URL of this page, http://www.lcusd.net/schoolname/username/fieldtrips.html (fieldtrips.html would be replaced with the name of the page you wish to link to).
    6. Click OK
  9. Creating an E-mail Link:
    1. Somewhere on your main page, typically near the bottom, type the words:
    2. Email questions or comments to Jane Smith (or something like that)
    3. Highlight the words you typed
    4. Click the LINK button in Netscape
    5. Type mailto:jsmith@lcusd.net in the long white box. Use all lower case letters, no spaces and your email address. Click OK.
  10. Publishing your HTML Documents:
    1. While viewing your main page (index.html) in the edit mode of Netscape choose File… Publish to publish all of your html documents.
    2. Make sure that the Page Title, HTML File Name and FTP Location are all correct. If you entered Netscape preferences and Page properties this information will be correct - if you did not, enter it now.
    3. Enter your username and password. Select Save password if you wish.
    4. Select All files in document's folder (that way all of your related pages and images will be published at the same time)
    5. Click OK
    6. It should confirm that your documents were published
    7. View in browse mode (you may need to reload)