Netscape Gold HTML Editor
Netscape Gold comes bundled with an HTML editor. It allows you to modify
existing pages that are on the web, or to create new pages. It also has the
ability to upload files to yuor solx account.
Finding what the ~ means
To publish the document is to upload it to your solix account. In order for
this to work, you must know what the ~ means in your solix path. Your solix
directory is something like ~jsmith01, however the ~ is just a symbol that
represents the actual path. You must know the actual path.
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Log on to solix
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Issue the command cd www
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Issue the command pwd
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You should now see a path beginning with a /, this is your path. For me,
the path is /home/scsfac/downeyt, for you it will be different. It should
be one of the following, replacing jsmith01 with your username:
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/home/s_95a/jsmith01/www
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/home/s_95b/jsmith01/www
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/home/s_95c/jsmith01/www
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/home/s_95d/jsmith01/www
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/home/s_96a/jsmith01/www
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/home/s_96b/jsmith01/www
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/home/s_96c/jsmith01/www
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/home/s_97/jsmith01/www
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Write this down
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Log off solix
Opening an exisiting document
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Start Netscape Gold and find the page you would like to edit, eg your home
page.
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From the file menu, select Edit Document. This will open the web page and
download it to your PC. You are not actually editing the file on the web,
you are downloading it to your PC and editing a copy of it.
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Save the file with the name that you want it to have
when you upload. This is very important for your index.htm page,
Netscape will try to save it under your solix account name, change this
to index.htm. If you want to save the local copy of the file, be sure
you save it on a diskette in the A: drive here at school.
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Make any changes to your file.
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Save changes to your file.
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To see how the changes look, click the File menu, and then New
Web Browser. This will open a new window with your file in it. This is
just how the file on your PC will look in Netscape, you still need to upload
the file to solix. Use the Window menu to switch between the editor
and the browser if you want to make more changes. If you make more changes,
remember to Reload the file when you return to the browser, so you
can see all your changes.
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Publish the file
Creating a new document
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Start Netscape Gold if you aren't already in it.
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From the file menu select New Document, select a Blank document
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From the Properties menu, select the Document option. From here you can add
a title, add a background, change all the text colors.
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On the toolbar you will see icons for indenting and aligning paragraphs.
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From the Insert menu, you can insert a link or an image. There are also buttons
for these in the toolbar.
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There are buttons on the toolbar for creating a list.
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Make any changes to your file.
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Save the file with the name that you want it to have when you upload. If
you want to save the local copy of the file, be sure you save it on a diskette
in the A: drive here at school.
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Save changes to your file.
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To see how the changes look, click the File menu, and then New
Web Browser. This will open a new window with your file in it. This is
just how the file on your PC will look in Netscape, you still need to upload
the file to solix. Use the Window menu to switch between the editor
and the browser if you want to make more changes. If you make more changes,
remember to Reload the file when you return to the browser, so you
can see all your changes.
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Publish the file
Publishing your file
Publishing in Windows 95
In Windows 95, publiishing works as advertised, just be sure that you save
your home page locally as index.htm
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From the File menu, select Publish
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The location to upload will be on solix in your www directory. You must
have already calculated your actual path in solix.
If your actual path is /home/s_97/jsmith01, then the upload destination will
be ftp://solix.fiu.edu/home/s_97/jsmith01/www
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Fill in your solix username in the appropriate text box
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Fill in your solix password in the appropriate text box
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If there are any images in your file, they can be selected in the upper area
of the dialog box. By selecting the images, you can upload them along with
the document to your solix directory.
Publishing in Windows 3.1
In Windows 3.1, the Netscape Gold editor has a slight problem; it always
saves htm files in upper case letters. All other files will be saved using
the same case as you save them, but for some reason, htm file names are
always converted to upper case. So, even if you save a file as index.htm,
Netscape Gold will upload it as INDEX.HTM. The same is true for other htm
filenames, so if you save and upload favsites.htm, Netscape Gold will upload
it as FAVSITES.HTM. So, to fix the problem: When using the Netscape
Gold HTML editor to save and upload htm files, always save them and refer
to them in href statements in upper case.
In order for the web server to find your INDEX.HTM it will be necessary to
delete your old index.htm file. Only do this once.
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Log onto solix
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Issue the command: cd www
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Issue the command: dir
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You should see both INDEX.HTM and index.htm. If not, then you haven't uploaded
correctly and need to try again before doing the next step.
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If you have both INDEX.HTM and index.htm, then issue the command: rm
index.htm
Once you have done this, and as long as you use upper case file names, then
you publish your documents just as you publish in Windows
95.