HTML Compiler
This is a complicated name
for a program that turns text into web pages.
Get one FREE
There are many programs that
will do this, including many which will cost you hundreds of $, or
£ or €. There is an excellent program available for free download
which will do 95% as good a job as the expensive programs.
Links change all the time as the Internet evolves, so use a search
engine to find the current download link:
Search for Netscape Navigator 7.2 Download.
Download the program and Install it.
This is a marvellous free program, which is not available in the later
versions of Netscape Navigator.
This website was
built using Netscape Navigator 7.2
Where do I start?
- Open Netscape Navigator 7.2 (Close
any Internet connection windows that open)
- Click on the Window Tab, at the top
- Click on Composer.
- Click on Format
- Click
on Page Colors and Background
- Click
on Use Custom Colors
- Click
on the white rectangle next to Background.
This gives you a block of colors to
choose from. You can use any color, if you can find the hexadecimal
code for it, but this is slightly more complex.
Leave the text and link colors as the
defaults.
- Click on Table (tab at top)
- Click on Insert
- Move your mouse to Table and Click
Tables make it easier to position
different parts of your content on the web page.
A window opens up when you click on Table, asking how many columns and
rows
- Type 4 into number of rows
- Type 4 into number of columns
- Type 0 (zero) into the border
size
- Click OK
You can choose any numbers here.
If you set the border at 1 pixel or above your table will be visible,
instead of just providing an invisible guide.
- Click in the Top Left Cell of the table
- Click on Table tab at top
- Move mouse down to Table Properties, Click
- A window opens telling you about
the table you have set up. Click
on the Cell Tab of this window
- Click on the Down Arrow next to
Cell in the window
- Scroll down and check the word, Column
- Check the WIDTH box
- Type 18 into the Width box
- Click on the Down arrow next to Pixel
- Check % of table instead
- Click NEXT
- Type 31 in the width box
- Click the down arrow
- Check % of table
- Click NEXT
- Type 31 in the width box
- Click the down arrow
- Check % of table
- Click NEXT
- Type 20 into the width box
- Click
the File Tab at the top of the page
- Click
Save As
- Type
Blank_Table
into the box that appears
- Click
the Save button
You have now done the hard work of
setting up a table that can form the basis of every web page you will
ever need.
Have Your Content Ready
- Write down the Title of your
website
- Write down page titles for each
page of your website
Avoid having spaces in your page titles,
it looks very amateurish.
The method in the next column assumes you are building a 6 page site,
with a Home page, a Contact Us page and an About Us page.
If you need 8 pages, including Home, About Us and Contact Us then just
make the table for the navigation menu 8 rows instead of 6.
You will use your page titles where
Save
As,YourPage2, SAVE, etc are indicated.
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Setting
up Your Web Page
Your pages will all have the same structure; title, navigation menu,
content, adverts.
Title
- Click in the Top Left Cell
- Hold down the left mouse button
- Keep the left button pressed and move the mouse across the
first 3 cells of the top row
- The three cells should now be
highlighted with borders around the cells
- Click the Table Tab at the top of the page
- Click on Join Selected Cells
- Type Your Web Page title in the joined cell
- Highlight the title using your mouse
- Click
on the down arrow next to Body Text
- Check
Heading 1
- Your
text should still be highlighted
- Click
the Format tab at the top
of the page
- Hold
your mouse over Font
Scroll down to Arial,
Comic Sans MS, Times New Roman
or Verdana
These fonts are on almost everyone's
computer. This site uses Verdana
If you use an unusual font that a user does not have installed then
their computer will substitute one of these fonts for the one you have
used.
This changes the look of your page disastrously.
Navigation
Menu
- Put your mouse pointer in the left most
cell immediately under the title you have just set up
- Hold the left mouse button down and
move the pointer downwards so that the left hand column cells
are highlighted
- Click on the Table Tab (top of page)
- Click on Join Selected cells
- Click on Insert Tab (top of page)
- Click Table
- In the new window that appears enter 6 as the number of rows, enter 1 as the number of
columns. Leave the border at 1
pixel
You
now have a table where you can put your page titles.
Content
- Put your mouse pointer in the top
cell of the second column immediately under the title you have
just set up
- Hold the left mouse button down and
move the pointer downwards to the bottom of the column so that
the column two cells are highlighted
- Click on the Table Tab (top of page)
- Click on Join Selected cells
- Put your mouse pointer in the top
cell of the third column immediately under the title you have
just set up
- Hold the left mouse button down and
move the pointer downwards to the bottom of the column so that
the column three cells are highlighted
- Click on the Table Tab (top of page)
- Click on Join Selected cells
You
will type your content in these two columns, going down the first one,
then moving to the next..
Adverts
Repeat
the cell joining procedure for the bottom three cells in the right hand
column.
SAVE
YOUR WORK
- Click the File Tab (top of page)
- Click Save As
- Type in a new File Name to save
the page as
- Click the Save Button
NOW
the content Starts
- Type
your page titles into the cells of your navigation table.
- The
top cell will be Home (the front page of your website)
- The
last two cells will be Contact Us and About Us.
- Cells
in between can be anything you like.
- If
you need more cells in the table just Click on a cell, Click on Table tab (top of
page). Hold your mouse pointer on
Insert and move it to Row Above or Row Below
Save
your page using Save As once for every page title.
- Save As, index, SAVE
- Save as, Contact_us, SAVE
- Save As, About_us, SAVE
- Save As, [YourPage2], SAVE
- Save As, [YourPage3], SAVE
- Save As, [YourPage4], SAVE
index
is all lower case letters
Use
the underscore character for About_us and Contact_us.
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