Getting Started in Composer


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Getting Started in Composer

What You'll Learn in This Section

In this section you'll learn how to open a blank page in Composer and how to edit an existing web page in Composer. It should be noted that Composer comes free with Netscape Communicator and is also included on the cd-rom that you received just for being here. If you lose or misplace your cdrom, you download Communicator for free from:

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/software/NETSCAPE/ (for the PC)

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/software/MAC/NETSCAPE/ ()for the Mac).

Using Composer with a PC

If you're using a Mac, click here because you're not welcome. If you're using a PC, welcome.

1. The first thing you want to do is open Netscape Communicator by double-clicking on the Communicator icon on your desktop.

After double-clicking on the Communicator icon, a window opens that allows you to browse the Internet. This window is called Navigator and is simply a different part of Netscape.

2. To open a blank Composer page, click on Communicator, then select Composer. A new window should open into a blank Composer page. Notice how Composer differs in appearance from Navigator. Memorize the differences and it will help keep you from confusing the two.

3. To open an existing web page into Composer, switch back to Navigator by clicking on the Navigator button on the Start Taskbar at the bottom of your screen. You can go back and forth between windows by clicking on the buttons on this taskbar.

4. After the Navigator window pops up, select File, then Edit Page. A new window should appear that looks very similar to the page you were viewing in Navigator. Voila! You're in Composer. Now, you could edit this page if you wanted to, but we're not there yet.

5. Congratulations! You've just finished the first section. Now, before you click the arrow to go onto the next section, close out of the last Composer page you opened by clicking on the Close button

at the top right of that window, then click back on this page. Click the right arrow to go to the next section.


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