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When you start Netscape Communicator, a browser called Navigator opens. To start Composer, click the Communicator menu, then click Composer or you can click the Composer icon at anytime.

Netscape Composer has two toolbars to help you put together your Web pages. The Composition toolbar contains buttons for manipulating the body and contents of a Web page and the Formatting toolbar contains buttons for altering format, including fonts, styles and alignment.

The Composition toolbar

New: Create from Blank Page, Wizard, or Template

Open: Select a local page off a disk or hard drive

Save: Saves the document to current location. (File/Save As will let you change the location.)

Publish: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) documents to server.

Preview: Shows the current composer document in the Netscape browser

Print: Prints

Link: Makes selected text or image "hot".

Image: Insert an image file

Table: Create tables of designated rows and columns. Place text, images or links in the table cells.

Spelling: Built in spell checker, it can learn terms and knows many Internet terms.

The Formatting toolbar

The Formatting Toolbar has a number of characteristics; headings, fonts, font size, font color, lists, and alignment.

Headings

Heading 1 or Heading 2 are used as the opening heading.

Heading 3 or 4 is usually used for sub-headings.

Normal will appear as whatever Font and Size you choose.

Text Formatting

Highlight text on your web page and select the following buttons for the given effect.

Bold text

Italic text

Underlined text

Lists

Bulleted list Item 1

Bulleted list Item 2

Numbered list Item 1

Numbered list Item 2

Indent examples

Decrease Indent of a line
or paragraph

Increase Indent of a line
or paragraph

Alignment Examples

Choose any of the four (left, center, right, or justify) for the following effect.

Left aligned text

Center Aligned text

Right aligned text

Justified paragraph text -- adds spaces between words to cause text to touch both left and right margins. Only works if the text in the paragraph is wider than one line on the screen in which you are currently viewing the page. This explanation is longer than most, in order to demonstrate this.

I encourage you to explore these items when working on your Web pages.

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Comments or questions: webmaster@nbcs.rutgers.edu
Last update: 10/2/02

	New: Create from Blank Page, Wizard, or Template
	Open: Select a local page off a disk or hard drive
	Save: Saves the document to current location. (File/Save As will let you change the location.)
	Publish: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) documents to server.
	Preview: Shows the current composer document in the Netscape browser
	Print: Prints
	Link: Makes selected text or image "hot".
	Image: Insert an image file
	Table: Create tables of designated rows and columns. Place text, images or links in the table cells.
	Spelling: Built in spell checker, it can learn terms and knows many Internet terms.

	Bold text
	Italic text
	Underlined text
Lists
	Bulleted list Item 1 Bulleted list Item 2
	Numbered list Item 1 Numbered list Item 2