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Introduction
File Management in Composer
Editing Page Properties
Editing Text Properties
The Horizontal Rule
Creating a Link
Inserting an Image
Creating Tables
 
 

Creating a Link

To create a link using Netscape Composer click on the link button on the main toolbar. The window below (figure1.c) should appear upon clicking the link button.

Creating a link is quite simple. First you will want to decide what you would like the viewer to see (in other words the text that the viewer will click on to be routed to the URL you desire). Insert that text in the box underneath "Enter text to display for a new link:." Now simply insert the URL that you would like to link to into the box beneath "Link to a page location or local file:." Now click OK and your ready to go.
If you wish to make an image link to a page, and not text, view my clickable images section of the page.
 
 

A large part of a web page is its graphics. Graphics can either enhance a web page, or cripple it. A graphic should be attractive, but needs to be limited in file size to eliminate extensive download time. To insert an image using Composer, click on the image button  on the main toolbar, the image below (figure 2.a) is the window that will appear.

Make sure the image tab has been selected.  To choose the image you would like to insert, click on the choose file button and find the image to insert. Next you will want to add the alt text, alt text is short for alternate text, it is the writing that pops up when an image is moused over and the words that are seen if an image is unviewable or the viewer is using Lynx (a text based browser). To insert the alt text click on the Alt. Text/LowRes... button, and the window to the right should appear. Type in the box below the writing Alterate Text what you would like your alternate text to read. If you would like you may insert a low resolution image from this window. To do this you must have another image with a lower resolution. The lower resolution image with a smaller file size will download first and the the actual image causing the optical illusion that it is downloading faster.
 
 

From Image Properties (Fig. 2.a) window you can select the alignment of the images. To align the image to the left, makes all text wrap around the right side of the image, click the left align button.

To align an image to the right, click the right align button.

When the image appears in Composer you will not see the text wrap around the image, instead you will need to type it following the image, and when it is previewed you will see that it has been wrapped around the image. Follow this link for a visual example of how it will look in Composer, and then in the preview window.

From the Image Properties (Fig. 2.a) window, you can also define the dimensions of an image. If you
leave both the height and width values at 0 the image will appear as its origional size. However, if you
would like to make the image a specific size (in pixels or percentage of window) simply define the values. The image to the left is where you would insert the values. Notice that in this example height and width are set at 0, leaving the image its origional size (note: when the settings are 0, the image appears extremely small in Composer, it appears its origional size in the browser). Remeber that when you insert an image, composer will automatically insert the size of the image.

As you can see in Figure 2.a, you can manipulate the spacing around an image. All spacing is done in
pixels, not percent of window or percent of image. Left and right spacing adds blank space on both the
left and the right side of the image. Top and bottom does the exact same as left and right except that it adds space to the top an bottom. Solid border will create spacing around all sides of the image. Keep in mind that if have a value in for solid border, and the image is a clickable link, a border with the same pixel size as inserted in the Solid border box and the same color as your pages link color, will appear around your image. If you have a border around a clickble image that you would like to remove, simple insert 0 into the solid border box.

To make an image clickable (linking to another page), right click on the image and select "Create link using selected..." and the Character Properties window (figure 1.c) should pop up. In this window insert the URL of the page you would like to link to into the box underneath "Link to a page location or selected file." Click OK and your done.
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