Netscape and Html Explorer/Book and Cd Book

Table of Contents

Introduction xxi

PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH

THE WEB AND NETSCAPE 1

Chapter 1 The Call of the Web 3

WEB BROWSERS FOR THE REAL WORLD 4

USING THIS BOOK 5

Explorations and Base Camp Briefings 5

Waxing Your Web Surfboard 6

Connecting to the Internet 6

What You Should Know before We Begin 7

A Client and a Browser 8

The Netscape Desktop 10

Web Pages 12

Testing a Link 13

Heading Home 15

NETSCAPE CONFIGURATION 16

A PEEK AT THE FUTURE 18

LET''S REVIEW 19

Chapter 2 Getting Our Bearings; Catching Our Breath 21

A BRIEF HISTORY OF NETSCAPE AND

THE WORLD WIDE WEB 22

In the Beginning: FTP 22

Hello, Archie 23

Giving Teeth to the Internet: Gopher 24

The World Wide Web 24

Birth of a Browser 26

An Explosion of Browsers 28

Where in the World Are We Going? 29

UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS 29

HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE (HTML) 30

TIME TO PREPARE FOR ANOTHER EXPLORATION 33

LET''S REVIEW 33

Chapter 3 Wanted: World Wide Web Tour Guide and Navigator 35

TEACHING NETSCAPE TO POINT 36

Watch Your Case 38

BOOKMARKS: EXTRAORDINARY TOUR GUIDES 39

The Care and Feeding of Bookmark Lists 42

ADDING YOUR OWN LINKS 43

Adding an Item to a Bookmark List 45

LET''S REVIEW 46

AND ONWARD! 47

Chapter 4 The Care and Feeding of Netscape Bookmarks 49

USING NETSCAPE''S FLEXIBLE MENU SYSTEM 50

THE BASICS OF MODIFYING MENUS 50

STARTING A NEW BOOKMARK FILE 52

Adding Menu Entries 52

Moving URLs between Menus 62

Menu Overflow 62

DELETING MENUS 66

USING ITEM SEPARATORS 66

STARTING FROM A SUBMENU 67

IMPORTING AND EXPORTING MENUS 67

NSMEDIT to the Rescue 68

LET''S REVIEW 71

Chapter 5 Inside URLs 73

THE UBIQUITOUS URL 74

THE COMPONENTS OF A URL 74

UNDERSTANDING NETWORK PORTS 76

HTTP URLS 76

OTHER TYPES OF URLS 77

gopher URLs 77

ftp URLs 78

telnet URLs 79

Usenet Newsgroup URLs 81

File URLs 81

Partial URLs 82

LET''S REVIEW 83

Chapter 6 Lynx and Character-Based Browsers 85

PLAIN VANILLA OR GRAPHICS 86

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN 86

The WWW Client 87

THERE''S A LYNX IN YOUR FUTURE 90

Let''s Tame Lynx 90

LET''S REVIEW 95

Chapter 7 Netscape: The Great Presentation Machine 97

TAKING THE STRAIN OFF THE WEB 98

NO DOCUMENT ON STARTUP 99

SHIFTING THE LOAD TO SOMEONE ELSE 100

Loading Netscape from Local Files 101

Downloading to Your Hard Disk 102

Changing Pointers 108

LET''S REVIEW 111

PART 2 PUBLISHING ON THE WEB 113

Chapter 8 Exploring the Power of Web Publishing 115

THE WORLD OF WEB PUBLISHING 116

A NEW KIND OF PUBLISHING 117

Interactive Publishing 117

Publishing on Demand 118

ME MAGAZINE 119

Multimedia Publishing 121

Resource Publishing 121

New Technology-Virtual Reality on the Web 122

Growth of Web Publishing 123

What Can You Publish on the Web? 123

WHAT EXACTLY ARE WEB PAGES? 126

What''s a Markup Language? 127

GETTING STARTED 128

What Do You Want to Publish on the Web? 129

Designing for the Web 129

Time-Based Publishing 130

Space-Based Publishing 132

Publishing with Levels 132

Evaluating Your Costs 134

Tools of the Trade 135

LET''S REVIEW 135

Chapter 9 The Easy Way to Create Your Own Home Page 137

IS THERE A HOME PAGE IN YOUR FUTURE? 138

Text-Based Pages (Resources) 139

Personal Home Pages 141

Commercial Home Pages 142

Service-Oriented Pages 144

Resource-Oriented Pages 145

Billboard Pages 147

Entertainment and Multimedia Pages 147

Humor-Oriented Home Pages 149

Weird Home Pages 150

HOME PAGE DESIGN 101 151

Simple Is Good 152

Focus Is Better 152

Fast Is Best 152

Alternate Images and Text 154

Make Your Pages Readable 154

Come Up with an Angle 155

Use the Newspaper Approach 155

Don''t Ignore Your Links 156

THREE WAYS TO CREATE A HOME PAGE 157

Creating Your First Home Page with HomePage Creator 157

GETTING PUBLISHED ON THE WEB 162

Setting Up Your Home Page with a Service Provider 163

LET''S REVIEW 164

Chapter 10 Creating Web Pages with HTML 165

HTML FOR WEB PUBLISHING 166

What Is HTML+ or HTML 3.0? 167

Learning HTML 167

HTML 101 169

The HTML Shell Game 172

Formatting Fun 174

Displaying Images 177

The Magic of Hotlinks 178

Working with Anchor References 179

Linking to Another HTML Document 180

CREATING A HOME PAGE USING CHARM NET''S PAGE 181

Testing a Home Page 186

CREATING A HOME PAGE FROM SCRATCH 187

Adding a Picture 190

Adding Anchors to Your Web Pages 194

HTML STANDARDS 197

LET''S REVIEW 197

Chapter 11 HTML in Style 201

CREATING LISTS WITH HTML 202

Introducing the Basic List Structure 203

The Return of Urb''s Home Page 204

Land Ho! 206

WORKING WITH SPECIAL CHARACTERS 208

A LITTLE MORE ON IMAGES 209

Combining Images with Text 209

Displaying Text Instead of Images 211

Using an Image as a Hotlink 211

Working with Thumbnails 212

Working with Multimedia 214

CREATING THE HTML STYLE GUIDE 216

Screen 1-Creating the Table of Contents 217

Screen 2-Here Come the Headings 220

Screens 3 and 4-Exploring the Basics of Links 222

Screen 5-Using Text Formatting Styles 224

Screens 6 and 7-Displaying Inline Graphics and Thumbnails 227

Screen 8-Inserting Special Characters 229

Screen 9-Everything You Wanted to Know About Lists 230

Screens 10 and 11-Applying Netscape''s Enhancements to HTML 233

Screen 12-Is There an Author in the House? 236

LET''S REVIEW 238

Chapter 12 Web Publishing Tips and Techniques 239

HTML FAQS 240

ADDING BACKGROUNDS AND COLORS 247

Changing Various Document Colors 250

Selecting Text Color 251

Solid Background Colors without Images 254

Biting the Hex Bullet 255

GREAT WEB PUBLISHING TIPS 257

Creating Your Own Graphics 257

Creating a Home Page 258

Checking a Web Page 259

Spelling Bee 261

LET''S REVIEW 262

Chapter 13 Mastering Tables 263

GETTING STARTED WITH TABLES 264

Let the Tutorial Begin 265

Summary of HTML Table Tags 267

The World''s Simplest Table 267

Two-Dimensional Tables 268

Text Formatting within Cells 271

Cell Spanning 273

Top and Side Table Headings 276

Practical Applications 277

Interesting Online Uses of Table 279

Online References 280

LET''S REVIEW 281

Chapter 14 Unlocking the Mysteries of CGI 283

MEET JON, THIS CHAPTER''S CO-AUTHOR 284

WHAT IS A SCRIPT? 284

How Can You Tell when Scripts Are Used? 286

How Are Scripts Executed? 286

Do You Need to Use a Programming Language to Create Scripts? 286

What Do You Need to Run Scripts? 287

What''s the Best Way to Learn How to Create Scripts? 287

Do You Need to Become a Unix Expert? 289

Creating the Script 292

Using the Script 296

Let''s Get Fancy 300

A Peek at Other Languages 302

LET''S REVIEW 304

Chapter 15 Publishing with Forms 307

GETTING INPUT 308

DOCUMENT- AND FORM-BASED QUERIES 309

USING DOCUMENT-BASED QUERIES 311

Performing Two Jobs with a CGI Script 311

Parameter Magic 313

Supporting Multiple Options 317

Sending Actual HTML Documents 317

FORM-BASED QUERIES 318

Creating Forms with HTML 320

How Do Forms Work? 322

Using Default Values with Text Boxes 326

Radio Buttons 328

Checkboxes 329

Adding Formatting Features 331

Drop-Down Menus 335

Decoding Name/Value Pairs 337

Resources 338

LET''S REVIEW 339

PART 3 DOING MORE ON THE WEB 341

Chapter 16 Finding and Retrieving Files 343

FILE COMPRESSION PROGRAMS 344

Why File Compression? 344

PK Ware''s PKZIP 2.04G 346

Other Compression Schemes 346

FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP) 347

Public Domain, Shareware, and Freeware 350

SEARCHING TECHNIQUES 351

Querying Archie Using a Web Form 352

Partial Strings and Sorting by Date 354

Using Archie from a Unix Shell 358

Using an Archie Client 363

Advanced Archie: Send Him Some Fan Mail 364

Telnetting to Archie from within Netscape 365

THE VIRTUAL SHAREWARE LIBRARY 368

SHASEing Around 368

Getting the Archie Manual 371

LET''S REVIEW 371

Chapter 17 Gopher, Gopherspace, and the Web 373

GOPHER AND MY FRIEND VIN 374

Why Did Gopher Come into Being? 374

What Is a Gopher? 375

Gopher First Organized the Internet 376

GOPHER AS A CONCEPT 377

Starting Down a Gopher Hole 378

A Little Background 380

ACCESSING A GOPHER SERVER 380

Gopher for the Computerphobic 381

ACCESSING GOPHER VIA SLIP/PPP OR WITH A LOCAL CLIENT 382

Using a Public Gopher Client 383

THE MAIN MENU 385

Traversing a Gopher Menu Structure 386

EFFICIENT PROBLEM SOLVING 388

Elegant Solutions to Common Problems 389

Accessing Gopher Using Netscape 390

LET''S REVIEW 394

Chapter 18 Comparing WWW and Gopher 395

WHAT ARE GOPHERSPACE AND WEBSPACE? 396

Comparing Gopherspace and Webspace 398

Surfing Gopherspace using Different Client Programs 399

Gopher Resources for Web Surfers 403

Gopher Jewels 406

LET''S REVIEW 410

Chapter 19 Searching for the Holy Grail 411

FINDING THINGS 412

Finding Things, Continued 413

AND and OR 415

LET''S HAVE VERONICA FIND SOME HUMOR 416

STEVEN FOSTER''S VERONICA QUERIES TUTORIAL 418

Introduction 420

Types of Searches 420

Multiple Servers 420

Pre-Defined Search Types 420

Entering a Query 421

Default Maximum Items and the "-m" Option 421

Query Logic, Boolean Searching, and Wildcards 422

Finding Resources of a Certain Gopher "Type" using the "-t" Flag 422

Summary of the Options 423

Examples (from Fred Barrie) 424

WORLD WIDE WEB SEARCHING 425

THE WORLD WIDE WEB WORM 425

HARVEST 428

Harvest Brokers 430

Harvest Queries 434

NIKOS-THE NEW INTERNET KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM 436

EINET GALAXY 438

THE WEBCRAWLER 441

W3 SEARCH ENGINES 442

Information Servers 443

Software 444

People 444

Publications 444

News/FAQs 444

Documentation 445

Other Interesting Things 445

Miscellaneous 445

URB''S HOT SPOTS 447

UNIX GREP STRING SEARCHES 449

Regular Expressions 450

LET''S REVIEW 451

Chapter 20 Let Your "finger" Do the Walking 455

RUNNING FINGER 456

Customizing Your "finger" Information 458

Using Windows Finger 459

USING INTERNET BILLBOARDS 460Let''s Explore 460

PUTTING YOUR FINGER ON THE WEB 462

Other Interesting Sites 464

LET''S REVIEW 466

Chapter 21 Just the FAQs, Ma''am 469

FAQS TO THE RESCUE 470

THE MIT FAQ DEPOSITORY 471

Finding FAQs about WAIS 475

FAQs Via FTP 477

A Sample FTP Session 478

USENET AND LISTSERV GROUPS 479

Usenet Newsgroups 479

LISTSERV Lists 480

LISTSERV FAQs 483

LET''S REVIEW 485

Chapter 22 Setting Your Netscape Preferences 487

USING THE OPTIONS MENU 488

USING THE WONDERFUL PREFERENCES MENUS 489

Styles 490

Fonts and Colors 491

Mail and News 494

Cache and Networks 496

Applications and Directories 498

Images and Security 499

Proxies 500

Helper Applications 501

EDITING NETSCAPE.INI 502

Where Is netscape.ini? 503

NETSCAPE.INI File Comments 503

Using Editors 505

LET''S REVIEW 505

Chapter 23 Netscape''s Helpers 507

INSTALLING HELPER APPLICATIONS 508

Netscape Viewers List and WinSock Client Listing 509

Obtaining Current Helper and WinSock Information 510

Installing Helper Applications 512

Configuring Viewers 514

AN INSTALLATION TEMPLATE 514

GIF and JPEG Viewer Lview Pro 514

ONE-STOP SHOPPING FOR VIEWERS AT NCSA 520

MPEG Viewer MpegPlay 522

QuickTime Video Player 522

WHAM Sound Player 523

Future MIME Types 524

LET''S REVIEW 525

Chapter 24 Advanced Netscape Features 527

NETSCAPE''S USENET NEWSREADER 528

Newsgroup Hierarchy 529

Searching for Newsgroups on the World Wide Web 530

Netscape as Newsreader 530

Let''s Get the News 530

Responding to a Posted Message 533

Buttons on the Listing Page 536

Subscribing and Unsubscribing to Newsgroups 537

Editing Netscape Bookmark Files 539

Building a Hierarchical Bookmark System 541

LET''S REVIEW 545

PART 4 THE INTERNET CONNECTION KIT 547

Chapter 25 The Fastest Road to the Web 549

ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE WEB 550

NETMANAGE''S AUTOMATIC INTERNET 551

Installing Automatic Internet 552

The Installation Process 553

Getting Connected with a Service Provider 555

Logging In with Custom 559

Traveling to the Post Office 561

LET''S REVIEW 561

Chapter 26 SLIP/PPP and the Chameleon Sampler 563

LET''S SPEAK TCP/IP 564

Static and Dynamic IP Addressing 565

THE SHAPE OF A SLIP/PPP CONNECTION 565

What Does WinSock Mean? 566

Let There Be Help 567

What You Need and Where to Get It 568

THE CHAMELEON SAMPLER 569

Installing Chameleon 569

Configuring the Chameleon Sampler 571

Custom Configuration 573

Configuration Parameter Entry 574

Chameleon''s Scripts and slip.ini 580

Script Syntax 581

A Script Example 583

Duplication of Records 585

Connecting with a Chameleon Interface 586

How to Do It Yourself 586

LET''S REVIEW 587

Chapter 27 Installing Netscape and Win32s 589

DO YOU NEED WIN32S? 590

Installing Win32s 591

INSTALLING NETSCAPE 592

Step 1 - Locate the Internet Site 593

Step 2 - Download the Desired File to Your PC 593

Step 3 - Uncompress the File 597

Step 4 - Add the Program''s Icon to Windows 597

Step 5 - Configure the Program 599

Step 6 - Test the Program and Configuration 600

LET''S REVIEW 600

Chapter 28 Going Off on Your Own 603

FINDING A SERVICE PROVIDER WITHOUT INTERNET ACCESS 604

Local Access Providers 606

Locating a Service Provider When You Already Have Internet Access 606

Narrowing Down the Field 609

AFTER YOU SELECT A PROVIDER 612

LET''S REVIEW 616

Appendix A: Writing Great HTML 619

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS SGML 619

HTML-THE LANGUAGE OF THE WEB 620

USING AN HTML EDITOR 620

You Still Have to Read HTML 621

Using "Piggyback" Editors 621

HTML BASICS 622

THE STRUCTURE OF AN HTML DOCUMENT 622

{HEAD} ... {/HEAD} Tag 622

{BODY} ... {/BODY} Tag 623

Comments 623

HEADER ELEMENTS 624

{TITLE} ... {/TITLE} Tag 624

Other {HEAD} Elements 624

NORMAL TEXT 625

{BR} Tag 625

{NOBR} Tag 626

{WBR} Tag 626

{P} Tag 626

Logical and Physical Attributes 626

HEADINGS 629

LISTS 629

Numbered List 630

Bulleted List 631

Netscape List Extensions 631

Directory and Menu Lists 633

Description List 633

INLINE IMAGES 634

{IMG ...} Tag 634

Mixing Images and Text 635

IsMap Parameter 637

HORIZONTAL RULES 637

HYPERMEDIA LINKS 638

Links to Other Documents 638

USING URLS 641

{BASE} Tag 641

Reading and Constructing URLs 642

USING SPECIAL CHARACTERS 643

Two Forms: Numeric and Symbolic 643

PREFORMATTED AND OTHER

SPECIAL PARAGRAPH TYPES 643

{BLOCKQUOTE} ... {/BLOCKQUOTE} Tag 644

{PRE} ... {/PRE} Tag 644

{ADDRESS} ... {/ADDRESS} Tag 644

USING TABLES 644

{TABLE} ... {/TABLE} Tag 645

USING FORMS 646

{FORM} ... {/FORM} TAG 646

Form Action and Method Attributes 647

Widgets 648

THE CGI 653

SECURITY 653

Appendix B: A Survivor''s Guide to Unix 655

UNIX COMMANDS 655

CONVENTIONS YOU CANNOT IGNORE! 657

What''s a File? 659

DIRECTORIES 659

Your Home Directory 660

Your Working Directory 660

Moving Around the Directory Structure 660

FILE MANIPULATION COMMANDS 662

CHANGING FILE AND DIRECTORY PROTECTION 663

Copying and Moving Files 665

Deleting Files 665

Unix Globs, aka Wild Cards 666

GET ME SOME ''MORE' 'CAT' 667

PIPING 667

MISDIRECTION AND REDIRECTION 667

GETTING HELP 668

ALIASES AND SCRIPTS 669

SUMMARY 669

Appendix C: Unix Aliases and Scripts 671

THE UNIX ALIAS 671

Redefining Commands 672

Combining Commands 673

Creating Your Own Set of Aliases 674

Unix Scripts 674

Creating and Adding to Small Unix Files without Using an Editor 678

Appendix D: Web Publishing Resources 681

HOW THIS GUIDE IS ORGANIZED 681

Sites for HTML Stuff 682

Web and HTML FAQs and Docs 685

HTML Tools and Related Stuff 687

CGI and VRML 689

Adding Sights (and Sounds) to Your Site 690

Free Art 691

Legalities 692

Periodicals (Online and on Paper) Related to Web Publishing 693

Books 695

Appendix E: Using the Web Surfing and Publishing CD-ROM 697

AUDIO, VIDEO, ANIMATION, AND CLIP ART 698

Audio 698

Images 698

Video and Animation 698

HomePage Creator 699

HotMetal 699

HTML Assistant 700

MPEGplay version 1.65 701

Paint Shop Pro version 3.0 702

ViewSpace 702

Web Spinner 703

Epilogue 707
Index 709