The easiest way to make a WWW page is to go find one
you like and appropriate its code. To do this you simply go up to
the menu bar in Netscape under "View" and choose
"Document Source". This opens up an application called
SimpleText or BBEdit and shows you the HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
that Netscape used to create/display the page you were just looking
at. Sometimes this will open up an internal editor within the browser.
If this happens, you can change your Preferences to use one
of the better text editors mentioned above.
Then you can either save the code in a file giving
it a new name or highlight a segment of it to COPY and PASTE
into another text file. You can use this appropriated code as a template
for your own page. Use SimpleText (or BBEdit) to edit this file. Each
HTML file roughly corresponds to a "page" on the Web. Remember
that html files must be named filename.html and any filename
used on the web MUST NOT CONTAIN SPACES in the name. Just like a page
layout program (PageMaker for example), your images and code are seperate
files, so you need both for the page to load properly.
You are best off making a folder/directory in your
Zip, locker or on the desktop and putting all your files (images and
html) into it. Then, to try out your page in Netscape go to "File"
and choose "Open File In Browser" to see a page in this
directory. Remember that to go out on the network, you would normally
be choosing "Open Location".This should show you what you've
done. This is testing mode. Make a change in your editor, save
it and hit the "RELOAD" button in Netscape to see if it
worked.
NOTE: images need to be in .gif or .jpg, sounds need to
be in .au, and movies should be flattened QT (.MOV).
