Dollarware, Inc. Page Two of the web site.
This uses the same .css file as the the Home page did.
View, Edit and Publish Your Webpages Using Netscape’s Composer – Free.
Netscape created one of the first browsers (then called Mosaic) and at one time dominated the browser market. Microsoft has since made their “Internet Explorer” the number one browser.
Netscape is now owned by America Online. By launching Netscape Navigator and typing the address of your website, you will be able to see how visitors to your site will see your pages if they are using this version of Netscape. Checking them in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape will cover most visitors.
Download Netscape Browser version 7.1 which will allow you to view your HTML pages in this browser. This download also contains their free “Composer”.
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp (261KB)
Free wysiwyg HTML Editor is a Bonus
Netscape includes a FREE wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML editor which they call “Composer”. I didn’t like earlier versions of this editor. This version, however, I find very appealing.
It downloads as a self extracting file named NSSetup.exe. Double-click the file name and the install should begin. It offers to create a quick launch link for you which I recommend. From that link you can choose to launch either the browser (Netscape Navigator) or the HTML editor (Composer).
Composer is the best Free wysiwyg HTML editor that I have found. When you open it, there are tabs at the bottom of the window: Normal, HTML Tags, HTML Source, and Preview. These displays closely resemble those of Microsoft FrontPage and SoThink HTML Editor. You really can’t go wrong with either of these three. But since Composer is free, and it will allow you to edit multiple pages at once, it moves ahead of SoThink.
The HTML Tags view is one in which it is easy to determine the various HTML tag elements in your page. Yellow markers indicate the beginning of the HTML element and by clicking the marker, all the text included in that element will be highlighted.
You create or edit pages by clicking the Normal tab. Then you just type in text and format the font, color, etc. From the menubar, you can click icons to add a hyperlink, an image or a table. Dialog boxes walk you through the details. From the menubar, choose Format to choose page colors or backgrounds. For help, choose from the menubar Help, then select Under the Contents Tab, Creating Web Pages.
Save will save the file to a location on your computer. Publish will upload the file to your webserver. Step by step Publishing Instructions
Publish uses a built-in FTP program to upload the page to your server. This is one of the Features in FrontPage that no program that I have found has been able to make as easy to use. Netscape Composer now comes closest to doing that.
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How to Publish Using Netscape Composer
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If you don't have Composer, get it free as part of
this download If you need more help, just click Help on the
Composer Menu, |
These Instructions are specific for use with the Dollarware Hosting
Account
Open Composer.
Open or create the page in Composer.
Choose File, Publish As
From the dialog box
Click the Publish Tab
Enter data
Site Subdirectory: www/
Check the Include images and
other files Checkbox
Choose the Use same directory
as page Radio button (a dot appears in the cirle when it is selected)
Next click the Settings tab and enter the data
Site Name: whatever you
named the site (not the domain name)
Publishing address:
ftp://yourdomainname/httpdocs/
http address of your
homepage: http://yourdomainname/
Login Information
Username: the ftp username reported to you from your host.
Password: the ftp password reported to you from your host
When all data has been entered,
Click Publish button.
Wait…
You should get a screen showing that something is
happening and …
Then it will show whether the publish action was successful or not