June 2005

Browse the Web with Netscape Navigator 4.7x

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Opening a Web Page
3. Links
4. Moving Between Pages
5. Bookmarks
• 5.1 To arrange your bookmarks
6. Searches
7. Downloading Files
8. Printing
9. Looking at Source Code
10. Viewing a Local File

1 Introduction

2 Opening a Web Page

For instance, The University of Western Ontario has many machines that contain web pages. The address of the main web page at Western is www.uwo.ca. To access other web pages on that machine you must append their location. For instance the address of the How do I documentation is http://www.uwo.ca/its/doc/hdi/

The address of a web page is listed in the location bar. This is at the top of Navigator.

The location bar displays the location of the current web page, and can also be used to directly access a web page by typing in its address or URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and pressing return. You will also notice that there is an http:// prefacing the Web page location. This tells Navigator that you're connecting to a web page. If these are omitted when you type in a Web page address ,Navigator inserts them for you. 

3 Links

4 Moving Between Pages

There is also a menu which lists the most recent pages you've been to. In order to select these pages, click on "Go" in the menu at the top of Navigator and select the page you wish to view from the list of sites at the bottom of this drop-down menu. If you would like the complete history of all web pages you've been to since starting Navigator, click on "Communicator" in the menu at the top, then choose "Tools" and finally select "History". You can use the CTRL-H hotkey combination to access this file directly.

5 Bookmarks

When viewing a page you can save its location as a bookmark by clicking on the bookmark button in the toolbar,  and selecting "Add Bookmark" from the drop down menu. When you click on the Bookmark button again, the web page will be listed in the drop down menu. To visit the page, click on the entry. 

5.1 To arrange your bookmarks

1. Click on the  button in the toolbar and select "Edit Bookmarks". A new window will appear listing your bookmarks.
2. To move a bookmark, simply click on it and drag it to a new location. You can also click on the bookmark and then choose  then   from the menu or use the CTRL-X hotkey combination. Click in the area where you want the bookmark to reside and then either choose  then from the menu or use the CTRL-V hotkey combination.
3. To add a folder to separate bookmarks into categories, click on "File" in the menu and select "New Folder". You can move the folder around your list of bookmarks just as you moved the individual bookmark in step 2.

6 Searches

Suggested web pages for searches are www.yahoo.com, www.hotbot.com, and www.altavista.digital.com. Refer to The University of Western Ontario's Tools for Searching and Browsing Web page, http://www.uwo.ca/selected/browse.html for a partial list of sites.

7 Downloading Files

• Click on a link that is a file:

Certain links, when clicked, will prompt you either to open the information associated with the link or save it. This indicates that the link you have clicked on is a file, which may be opened with a program on your computer or saved to your hard drive. This is how you can download files from FTP archive sites. To download the file, click on the file name.
• If there is a program associated with that file, it will be opened and you can manipulate the file; otherwise, you will be presented with the Save As dialog box. Enter a folder (and optionally a new name) and click OK.

NOTE: Be sure to remember which folder the file is saved in to utilize it at a later time.
• If the file is not a binary file and displays on the screen instead of giving you the Save As box, choose Save As from the File menu.
• You can also hold down the Shift key and click on the name of the file to transfer it. This works for both ascii or binary files.
• Save the page you are viewing on the screen:

Choose Save As from the File menu. You can choose to save it as a Plain Text (or ascii) file or as an HTML Source file by selecting the desired type from the Save As Type box in the Save As window.

8 Printing

By default the title of the Web page, its location, the number of pages printed and the date and time are all contained on the document when it is printed. They are displayed in the header and the footer of the document. To turn them on or off select "File" from the menu at the top of Navigator and the select "Page Setup". A check mark beside each option indicates what will be printed.

9 Looking at the Source Code

To view the source code for the web page click on "View" in the menu at the top and select "Page Source". You can also use the CTRL-U hotkey combination. To view a frame's source code you must click on your mouse's right button somewhere within the frame whose source code you wish to view and a menu will appear where you can choose

10 Viewing a Local File

Click on  in the menu at the top of the browser window. >From the drop down menu click on "Open Page" or use the CTRL-O hotkey combination. The window displayed below will appear.  Select Navigator to view the page or choose Composer to edit the webpage. Click on the button labeled . The normal Windows' directory window will appear to assist you to locate the file. Select the file you wish to view and click on  Then click on

NOTE: You can create a webpage on your local machine and make it your Netscape Homepage and put your favorite links and such on it.

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