Netscape Composer Webpage Tutorial
View HTML 



Composer makes it easy to create webpages, 
but what we see is not what we create. 
We are really making a plain text document. 

At bottom of window, click on the <HTML> Source Tab.
(Or on the Netscape toolbar, choose View - HTML Source.)

This is Hyper Text Markup Language, abbreviated HTML,
used for WorldWideWeb. 
HTML is simply words set between angle brackets < > called Tags.

Your computer sees the  .HTML file extension;
it opens Netscape Navigator which reads the HTML Tags and displays the page according to the instructions in the Tags. 

At top of page is <HTML> tag which identifies document
as a webpage.

Two main parts of Web document are:

  1. <HEAD> information is not displayed on the page;
    2. contains Title of page enclosed in <TITLE> tags
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  2. <BODY> is the displayed content of the webpage --
    3. what you see in the browser window.
What you don't see are colors or pictures.
It's all text.
  • Colors are coded as hexadecimal numbers. Netscape reads the number and tells your computer to display that color.

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  • Images are completely separate files.

    • Navigator reads the tag and tells your computer,
    "Go get this .gif or .jpeg file and display it in this spot."
The Choose File button locates and imports that file.
Keep your images in the same folder as your webpages or they will not be displayed on the page once it is published to the Internet.

Click Normal tab to close the HTML window.

Let's continue on to another Web page feature - a table.
Barbara Paciotti, March 2003

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