Daily Guide for Friday, 7/2/99; Day 05
Digital Library Homeroom,
Web Institute for Teachers 1999
Bill Geraci and Sally Levin, Presiding
Daily Schedule
Homeroom Session
Regenstein Library Computer Training Room 153
9-noon
Lunch
Provided! Guest Talkers! Not Optional! Come!
Ida Noyes building
12:15-1:30
Todays Topics
Pick your first set of "Attended Special Topics Workshops"
All about Netscape Navigator
Using Netscape Composer
Contents
Chooser your "Attended
Special Topics Workshops"
How to use Netscape
Navigator as your Web
Tricks and Tips
More
Points about Navigator, Composer and All That
Tricks and Tips
You don't have
to wait for it! (As Much)
A Bit About Netscape Composer
Toward a Good Design
Scanning Workshops
Chooser
your "Attended Special Topics Workshops"
Use this URL to learn more about what the workshops offer.
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/99/delta/WIT99DL-990630.htm#Workshops
for You
Use the form to state your preferences. We need to turn these in at
lunch today. You can pick more again towards the end of the four weeks.
How to use Netscape
Navigator as your Web Browser
Please check this URL. Go over the information until you get to Tables.
You can cover the informatn in Tables and beyond at another time.
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/99/curriculum/homeroom/hr9.htm
More Points
about Navigator, Composer and All That
Other Web Browsers
Internet Explorer (ID) (from Microsoft) and AOL's Browser (currently based
on Microsoft's IE) are the most commonly used. These are made for Windows,
Macintosh and some other operating systems.
Netscape and Communicator and Navigator and Composer
Netscape is the company, Communicator is a suite of software that do things
over the web.
Within Communicator are two modules we care about: Navigator is the
part of their client software that browses web pages while Composer allows
you to compose web pages.
The Menus
The Buttons
Tricks and Tips
The Go Menu
Gives you access to the most recent sites you've been to. Often handier
than the Back button.
Note that this historical information lives within each individual
document. Close that window: loose that history.
Right click or Press and Hold (Macintosh)
Using the right mouse button (on a Windows computer) or pressing and holding
or holding down the Control Key on Macs brings up a menu of options. These
options change based on what the pointer is over when you do the right
click or press and hold.
You can use this to save or copy a graphic or to open a link in a new
page rather than leave your current page.
Saving Web Pages to disk
Web pages are just computer files. In fact, they're just TEXT files. The
HTML code gets interpreted by the web browser but lives in the file as
TEXT.
Since Web pages are just files, you can save them to your hard disk
or floppy disk or whatever! If you can see it on screen you can save it!
Notes:
Graphics are stored separately from the body of the page. If you want to
get a graphic you need to make a separate saving action.
There may be other elements of the pages (eg: frames, movies) that don't
save easily / well.
Using Composer to make notes on Web Pages you look at
With the above info, you could save a page to disk. Open it in Composer
and then edit that file with your comments. You could never have to mess
with paper, handwriting, etc.!
You don't have to
wait for it! (As Much)
Multiple Windows
You can open multiple Web browsing (and Composer) windows. This is great:
You don't have to wait to get work done.
Switch between windows and do stuff while the other window loads....
Find within Page
Looking for a piece of text *within* a web page? You can use the Find In
Page under Edit to do just that!
A Bit About
Netscape Composer
Composer is part of the suite of software that is Netscape Commnicator.
Composer allows you to compose (write) Web Pages.
It's a WYSIWYG web page tool. (What You See Is What You Get).
Web pages are based on HTML (HyperText Markup Language). This is sort
up a baby programming lanaguage. Baby because it only "marks up" formatting
information, it's not a full scale programing language (where you can make
the computer do anything it's capable of doing).
We'll look at HTML a bit more, later.
On strength of HTML: it's TEXT only. Some of he implications of this:
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It caries well through the Internet
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It doesn't know or care what kind of computer you're using
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You can use almost any program you can type into to create / edit HTML
pages (but you have to be able to work with the tags)
[Moved Design tips to Tues 7/7/99]
Scanning Workshops
We will teach you a lot about scanning. We plan a bunch of hours on Intro
to Graphics and Intro to Scanning and then some more in depth work.
Version: 1.4
Last Revised: 7/4/99
Bill Geraci billg@mcs.net