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See
below for Tips Specific to Netscape Composer,
as well as Keystroke Shortcuts and Helpful
Websites.
Some
General Tips for Working in HTML
When
saving HTML files, use universal Internet naming conventions:
File names should contain no spaces or special characters other
than hyphen - or underscore _. It's also a good idea to keep letters
lowercase.
Find
HTML (coding) Source in Word or browser:
From menu bar, select View/HTML Source or View/(Page)
Source
Create
a Windows folder "on the fly" in the process of saving
a file:
After selecting File/Save As/ and navigating to the folder
where you wish to create a new subfolder, select the Create New
Folder 
button. This
pops up a new folder dialog box that allows you to type the name
of the new folder. After creating the folder, you may have to double-click
it to get inside the folder before saving the file there.
Tips
to Working Effectively in Netscape Composer 4.7x:
Resave often.
You may UNDO or REDO only the last single operation after a save,
via the Edit/Undo (or Edit/Redo) option.
To insert
a line break (single hard return) as opposed to a paragraph
break (blank line between paragraphs), hold down the keyboard Shift
key while hitting Enter.
To insert
a line break between paragraphs within bulleted or numbered items,
hold the Shift key and hit Enter twice. The resulting
blank line appears to be a paragraph break but maintains the indent
of the bullet (or number) without starting a new item. "Hold"
the blank line between items by inserting one space (hit the keyboard
space bar) in the blank line.
Don't overdo
indents in Composer pages. Too many indent levels can create
haphazard vertical spacing problems that are difficult to fix permanently.
When and
how to use background colors. If you will publish your webpage
and then link to it in WebTycho, you may insert a background color
via Format/Page Colors and Properties/Colors
and Background/Background button.
However, if pasting the source code into WebTycho, background color
will be eliminated by pasting only the actual body text as required
by WebTycho, since background color is housed in the page's <BODY>
tag. (A workaround is to create one large single-celled table on
the page for all the text and put a background color in the table.)
"Preview"
your page in a browser window frequently as you work on it.
Select the Preview 
button on the Composer toolbar to look at the page in the Netscape
Navigator browser.
A quick way
to check whether you are in the Composer or Navigator view (or
to select from program buttons in your Windows status bar) is to
note the icon at the (upper) left of the window or button:
indicates Composer 
indicates Navigator
Preview your
page in Internet Explorer (IE) from time to time. This allows
you to see how your page's appearance differs in IE compared to
Navigator. Open IE, select File/Open/Browse
to find and select the webpage file on your computer, then click
OK.
Reload/Refresh
the browser view of a local HTML page (on your computer) to
see newly saved work. Right-click on the browser view of the page
and select Reload (for Navigator) or Refresh (for Internet Explorer)
from the mini-menu.
Keystroke Shortcuts
To
copy (e.g., from Page Source view if normal Copy
commands aren't available):
In
any Windows-based program, first select text and other elements
to be copied, then hold down the Control
key while selecting the
C key
(Control-C).
The
keystroke to paste is Control-V.
To
open a new (Navigator) window (while in a given program) Control-N.
To
open a new Composer window (while in Netscape) Control-Shift-N.
Helpful
Websites
WebTycho
Help site's information on viruses
tychousa.umuc.edu/help.nsf/htmlmedia/virus.html
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Oracle at UMUC Ezine and Online Help Site(s)
For
a primer on using Composer, see Netscape's Handbook, home.netscape.com/browsers/using/newusers/composer/index.html.
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