With Netscape Composer you can do most of the things we have learned to do with HTML.

Create a Hyperlink

1. From the Insert menu, select Link.
2. Enter the text that you want displayed on your page, e.g., New Hire Information.
3. Then enter the link to the page either as a file name or as a URL, e.g., ~vaweb/Training/newhire.shtml

Create a Table

There are several ways to create and change the size of a table.

1. Type in the entries that you want in the table, separated by commas, e.g., 1,2,3,4,5.
   1. Select the values with your mouse so they are highlighted.
   2. From the Tools menu, select Tableize and from the menu that appears, select By commas.
2. From the Insert menu, select Table and then from the menu that appears, select Table.
   1. Fill in the number of rows and columns you want in your table, as well as the table width and height. Then click the "OK" button at the bottom left of the table.
   2. Now fill in the entries in your table.
3. Change the size of your table.
   1. If you want more rows in your table, position your cursor on the right-most entry on the last row and hit the Tab key.
   2. If you want to add a column in your table, position your cursor to the right of where you want a column added, then from the Insert menu, select Column.
   3. If you want to add a row in your table (not necessarily at the end), position your cursor in the row above where you want a row added, then from the Insert menu, select Row.
   4. If you want to delete a column (or row) in your table, select a cell in the column (or row) you want to delete. Then from the Edit menu, select Delete Table and then from the menu that appears, select Column (or Row).

Change colors

1. From the Format menu, select Page Colors and Properties.
2. You can set the color of normal text, link text, active (or selected) links, followed (or visited) links, and the background color or image. You can use
3. To change any color, select the radio button Use custom colors, which is in the upper left corner of the dialog box.
4. Then click on the box corresponding to the color you want to change, then a color table should appear.
5. Click on the color you desire and then click the OK button.

Insert an image

1. From the Insert menu, select Image.
2. In the dialog box, I encourage you to use the Alternative representation, so that you can enter the location of the image file or the URL that contains the image and a description (in the Text field) for those that turn off images or have slow connections. Use the Browse button to select files interactively.
3. Then select the OK button at the bottom left of of the dialog box.

Change alignment

1. Enter some text or an image.
2. Select it with your mouse so it is highlighted.
3. From the Format menu, select Align and then select Left, Center, or Right as desired.

Change the font

1. Enter some text.
2. Select it with your mouse so it is highlighted.
3. Select the purpose, font type, size, and color from the 4 popup menus that are on the left side of the window just above your document.
4. You can also select whether the text should be Bold, Italic, or Underlined, by selecting the A that corresponds to the style you desire.
5. Remember to reset the styles when you no longer want your text in that style.

Check spelling

1. From the Tools menu, select Check Spelling.
2. A dialog box will appear showing you words that Composer thinks might be mispelled and offering suggestions for how each can be corrected.

Edit HTML source

Composer doesn't have the wealth of capabilities available to you if you code in HTML.

1. If you want to edit the HTML source, from the Tools menu, select HTML Tools and from the menu that pops up, select Edit HTML Source.
2. A window will popup with your page's HTML source code, which you can edit.
3. Click the OK button after you have made your edits.
4. Your page will be redrawn with your edits.