Netscape Navigator Gold
Web Page Editor Tutorial
![[4) Adding Text]](step4.gif)
Let's start
by creating a title and heading for your document. Click on Properties
from the menu bar and then select Document... A dialog box should
appear on your screen. Make sure the General tab is selected.
![[Document Properties Dialog Box]](properties.gif)
Click in the box marked "Title"
and then type your name, followed by: "makes it to the Web!" Press the
tab key on the keyboard and then enter your name in the box marked
"Author." If you wish, you may press tab once more and write a brief description
of the page you are about to create (this tutorial will take you through
the steps to creating a simple personal home page).
Your next step is to place
some text on your page (we'll add a fancy picture later). Let's start with
a heading. In HTML, you can think of different paragraph styles much as
you would in a word processor. For example, Heading 1 is a large font-size
(most commonly used at the very beginning of a page). Heading 6 on the
other hand, is very small (and often hard to read). To begin your page,
click on Properties, Paragraph, and then Heading 1.
Now, all you have to do is type.
Start off by typing "Welcome to my Home Page". DO NOT press
return at the end of the line! Click on Insert on the menu bar and
then Horizontal Line. This will add a line under the text you just
typed. The cursor should now be positioned at the end of the horizontal
line which was just inserted. Now you may press return. The paragraph style
box (right above the page area) should now say "Normal" instead of "Heading
1." Now just type something about yourself. For example:
Hello, and welcome to my
home page on the World Wide Web! My name is Craig Hansen and I'm currently
working at WPI in Worcester, MA. My interest lies mainly with computers,
however I do enjoy coin collecting, Star Trek, and the Muppets.
If you would like to make any
text bold or italicized, you may use the keyboard or the mouse. The commands
are the same as the commands for most word processors. For example, to
make a word or letter boldface, press ctrl-b (or press the bolded
"A" button on the button-bar). Want italics? Press ctrl-i, or click
on the italicized "A" on the button bar. For typewriter, or fixed-width
typeface, press ctrl-t or press the fixed-width "A" on the button
bar. Much like in word processors, you press the keys (or click the mouse)
once to turn the option on, then once more to turn it back off.
Now, insert another horizonal
line after the paragraph about yourself. Press return at the end of the
horizontal line, and change the paragraph properties as we did for Heading
1, except this time, choose Address. The cursor should be positioned
under second horizontal line that you inserted. Type "Created By:" and
then put your name. After you type your name, press return and change the
paragraph properties back to normal (you may use the white box at
the botton of the button bars to change from heading styles to normal or
address text, if you wish). Now type "Last Updated:" and put today's date
(this should appear in the same typeface as the paragraph about yourself
did).
If all went well, your page
should look something like this:
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