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Tables of Contents for Using Netscape
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
8
Netscape Navigator
3
1
What Makes This Book Different?
3
1
How Do I Use This Book?
4
1
How Is This Book Put Together?
4
2
Information that's Easy to Understand
6
3
I Caught in the Web
9
108
1 Finding and Installing Netscape Communicator
9
14
Communicator Versions
11
3
The Main Versions: Communicator Standard and Communicator Professional
11
1
The Different Distributions
11
1
Release Version Numbers
11
1
The Operating Systems
12
1
The Languages
13
1
The Personal Edition
13
1
Export and Domestic Releases
13
1
Finding Netscape Communicator
14
2
Downloading the Full-Security Version
16
1
Communicator's Registration Fee
16
1
Your TCP/IP Connection
16
1
Installing the Program
17
2
Installing the Windows Versions
17
1
Installing the Macintosh Versions
18
1
Installing the UNIX Versions
19
1
Creating a User Profile
19
1
The HTML Association in Windows
20
1
Firewalls and Proxy Servers
21
2
2 The Opening Moves
23
26
Starting Netscape Navigator
24
1
Which Programs Open?
24
1
The Home Page
25
5
Using the Component Bar
29
1
What Does a Web Document Contain?
30
3
Your First Clicks
33
2
Watch the Status Messages
34
1
Don't Wait--Start Working Right Away
35
3
Moving Around the Document
36
1
Using the Tab Key
37
1
Your Links Will Change Color
37
1
Lost Yet? Finding Your Way Back
38
1
Special Text, Special Backgrounds
39
2
You Can Change Navigator's Appearance
41
7
The New Preferences Dialog Box
41
1
Changing Text, Link, and Background Appearance
42
1
The Web Isn't Just English
43
1
Document Encoding
43
1
Changing the Fonts
44
1
Changing Your Video Mode
45
1
Working Offline
46
1
Setting Up Navigator for Offline Work
47
1
Setting a New Home Page
48
1
3 Advanced Navigation
49
16
Speeding Things Up--Removing Images
50
1
Stopping Animations
51
1
Traveling Directly to Web Pages with URLs
51
4
URLs--The Web Address
51
1
Using the URL
52
1
Remembering URLs
53
1
Sending URLs to Other People
54
1
Running Two (or More) Web Sessions
55
1
Opening Files on Your Hard Disk
56
1
Understanding the Cache
57
4
Navigator Verifies the Cache for You
59
1
When Is a Page Verified?
60
1
What's Reload All About?
60
1
What Is LiveCache?
61
1
Searching Within Documents
62
1
Remember the Pop-Up Menu
62
3
4 Moving Further into the Web
65
12
Working with Tables
66
1
Interactive Web Pages Using Forms
67
1
Playing It Safe--Secure Sites
68
1
How Do I Get into Password-Protected Sites?
68
1
What Are "Secondary" or "Targeted" Windows?
68
1
Panes or Frames
69
1
Web Pages Come Alive--Java Applets
69
1
Poor Man's Java--JavaScript
70
1
Pictures, Sounds, Video, and More--Multimedia
70
1
Pushing and Pulling
71
1
Enterprise Server Services
71
1
The Microsoft versus Netscape War
72
1
Viewing Document Information
73
4
5 History, Bookmarks, and Shortcuts
77
16
Where've You Been?--Using the History List
78
3
Not All the Documents!
80
1
Remember the Location Bar?
81
1
The Bookmark System
81
5
Adding a Bookmark
81
1
Modifying Your Bookmarks
82
2
More Bookmark Operations
84
1
Where Do You Want Your Bookmarks?
85
1
Which Folder on the Menu?
86
1
Using the Bookmarks
86
1
Creating Bookmark Files
86
1
Dragging and Dropping Bookmarks
87
1
Smart Bookmarks
87
1
Using the Personal Toolbar
88
2
Creating Desktop Shortcuts
90
3
6 Searching for Information on the Web
93
14
Navigator's Search Tools
94
1
Searching for Web Sites
95
5
Using a Site Sampler
98
1
Load More Search Engines
99
1
Search Multiple Engines Quickly!
99
1
Browse the Internet Directories
100
1
A Navigator Shortcut
101
1
Finding People
102
1
Finding Newsgroup Messages
103
1
Searching Mailing Lists
104
1
Searching the Real World with the Yellow Pages
105
1
Finding Software
105
2
7 Navigator Frames
107
10
How Are Frames Used?
108
3
A Table of Contents
109
1
A Table of Contents and a Ledge
109
2
My Favorite Example
111
1
The Problem with Frames
111
1
Targeted Windows
112
5
II Navigator's Advanced Features
117
88
8 Saving Documents and Images from the Web
117
18
What Can You Save?
118
1
How Can I Grab Document Text?
118
1
Saving the HTML Source Document
119
1
Viewing the Source Document
119
1
Saving Documents You Haven't Even Seen
120
1
How Can I Save Inline Images?
120
1
Using the Image as Wallpaper
121
1
Saving Document Backgrounds
121
1
From Web to Paper--Printing the Document
122
2
Before You Print--The Preview
123
1
Printing the Document
124
1
Saving URLs to the Clipboard
124
1
Stealing Directly from the Cache
125
2
How Do I Grab Files from the Web?
127
3
File Transfers
128
1
Here's How It Works
129
1
Embedding Web Pages in Other Documents
130
5
If You Use an Icon
133
2
9 Sound and Video: Using Plug-Ins and Viewers
135
20
What Plug-Ins and Viewers Do You Have?
140
1
What Happens When Navigator Transfers a File?
141
1
Plug-Ins versus Viewers
142
1
Two Types of Objects
143
1
Installing Plug-Ins
143
2
Installing a Plug-In--Bubble Viewer
145
3
Another Popular Plug-In--Shockwave
147
1
Different Types of Plug-Ins
147
1
Security Warnings
148
1
Unexpected File Types
148
2
Installing Viewers
150
3
What Is MIME?
151
1
Finding the Viewer
151
1
Setting Up the Viewer On-the-Fly
152
1
Adding Viewers Manually
153
2
10 More on Plug-Ins and Viewers
155
14
Saving What You've Played
156
1
What Viewers Do I Have?
156
1
I Need More Viewers!
157
1
RealAudio (.ra and .ram) and LiveAudio (.lam)
157
3
Playing RealAudio
158
1
Netscape Media Player and the LiveAudio Metafile
159
1
TrueSpeech (.tsp) Files
160
1
Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) Files
160
1
KeyView--200 File Formats
161
1
scriptActive--Add ActiveX to Navigator
162
1
Motion on the Web--Video Viewers
163
1
More Sounds on the Web--MPEG Audio
164
1
VRML 3-D Images
164
3
Voyager CDLinks
167
2
11 Communicator's Security Features
169
22
It's Not That Dangerous!
170
1
Public-Key Encryption
170
3
Different Size Keys
171
1
Is Communicator's Encryption Really Safe?
172
1
Using the Security Features
173
2
Using Site Certificates
175
2
Using the Security Dialog Box
176
1
Editing Site Certificates and Certification Authorities
177
2
Using Personal Certificates
179
5
Importing and Exporting Certificates
184
2
Using Your Certificate
185
1
Changes and Revocations
186
1
Changing the Keyfile Password
186
1
E-Mail Encryption
187
1
Using the Certificate
188
1
Keeping You Informed--The Security Messages
188
1
Working with Cookies
189
2
12 Programs Built into the Web: Java, JavaScript, and ActiveX
191
14
What Can Java Programs Do for You?
192
1
Where Can I Find Java?
193
1
Playing an Applet
193
4
The Abacus
194
1
Control the Nuclear Power Plant
194
1
A Shopping Program
194
2
The Human Slice Viewer
196
1
The Problem with Java
197
1
Troubleshooting Java
197
1
A Simpler Form of Java--JavaScript
197
1
When Do They Run?
198
2
Finding Samples
199
1
A Word About Cookies
200
1
Putting It All Together--LiveConnect
201
1
ActiveX: Microsoft's Answer to Java
202
3
III The Internet: More than Just the Web
205
118
13 Desktop Web Access: Using Netcaster
205
10
An Introduction to Netcaster
206
1
Starting Netcaster
206
1
Adding Channels
207
4
Using the Channel Finder
207
4
Adding Any Web Page
211
1
Using Your Channels
211
2
Updating and Configuring Channels
213
1
Setting Netcaster's Options
213
2
14 Accessing Files with FTP
215
12
Using Other URL Types
216
1
Finding Internet Resources
217
1
FTP: The Internet's File Library
217
5
Using an FTP Site
218
1
What You'll Find at an FTP Site
219
2
How Can I Find My Way Around?
221
1
How Can I Use a Private FTP Site?
221
1
Uploading Files
222
1
How Can I Find Files? Working with Archie
222
5
More Client/Server Stuff
223
1
How Do I Search?
223
2
Archie's Options
225
2
15 Gopher, Finger, Telnet, and More
227
10
Traveling in Gopherspace
228
2
Digging Around with Gopher
228
2
Veronica and Jughead
230
2
Finger
232
1
Chatting Online
233
1
Netscape Chat and Ichat
234
1
Telnet Sessions
234
3
Starting a Telnet or tn3270 Session
235
1
Using HYTELNET
235
2
16 Messenger: World Wide E-Mail
237
26
Opening the Netscape Folder/Messenger Mailbox Window
238
1
Setting Up E-Mail
238
10
Setting Up More Preferences
240
2
Entering More Identity Information
242
1
Entering Your Messages Information
243
2
Entering More Mail Server Information
245
2
Viewing the Phone Book Information
247
1
Sending E-Mail
248
3
Using HTML Formatting
251
1
Sending the Web Document
252
2
Sending Computer Files
253
1
Receiving Computer Files
254
1
More Composition Procedures
255
1
The Message Center and Netscape Folder/Messenger Mailbox Windows
256
2
Getting Your Mail
258
5
Moving Between Messages
259
1
Replying to Messages
259
1
Working with Folders
259
1
Moving and Copying Messages Between Folders
260
1
Marking Messages--The Flag and Diamond Columns
261
2
17 Messenger: Advanced Functions
263
20
Working with Threads
264
1
More Messenger Functions
265
1
Netscape Mail Notification
266
2
Using the Address Book
268
3
Creating Mailing Lists
269
1
Sending Mail to Someone in the Address Book
270
1
Searching for E-Mail Addresses
271
1
E-Mail Security--Encrypting Your Communications
272
4
Signing E-Mail and Transferring Certificates
273
2
About the vCard
275
1
Encrypting E-Mail
275
1
Mail Security Settings
276
1
E-Mail Filtering
277
3
Working Offline
280
1
Free Stuff in Your Mailbox--Inbox Direct
280
3
18 Collabra: From Newsgroups to Corporate Communications
283
22
Newsgroups and Discussion Groups
284
1
Communicator's Newsgroup/Web Integration
284
3
The Newsgroup Hierarchies
287
1
Getting the News
288
2
Working in the Newsgroups
290
3
Displaying the Newsgroups and Subscribing
291
2
Automatically Subscribing to Groups
293
1
The Newsgroup Message
293
1
Pictures from Words
293
2
Working with Multiple Message Uploads
295
1
The Gibberish Message--ROT13
295
3
Threading and References
296
1
Putting In Your Own Two Cents: Posting and Responding
297
1
Read versus Unread Messages
298
1
Saving Messages
299
1
Searching for Messages
299
1
Selecting Another News Server
299
1
Your Very Own News Server
300
1
Setting Newsgroup Properties
300
2
Working Offline
302
2
A Few More Procedures
304
1
19 Conference: Voice on the Net and More
305
18
VON--Great Price, Reasonable Quality
306
1
Setting Up Conference
306
3
Setting Up the Options
309
2
Audio Options
309
2
Selecting the Answer Mode
311
1
Connecting Through the Directory
311
1
Talking Through Conference
312
2
More Ways to Connect
314
1
Calling Someone Directly
314
1
Using the Address Book
315
1
Using a Speed-Dial Button
315
1
Viewing the Business Card
315
1
The Answering Machine
316
1
Typed Messages--Using Chat
316
1
Using the White Board
317
2
Sending Files
319
1
Browsing the Web Together
320
3
IV Creating Web Pages with Netscape Composer
323
32
20 Creating Your Own Home Page
323
16
Your First Home (Page)
324
9
How Do You Open Composer?
325
3
Entering Your Text
328
2
How About Links?
330
2
More Nifty Link Tricks
332
1
Inserting Pictures
333
3
Adding Horizontal Lines
336
1
Creating Multiple Documents
337
1
How Can I Use My Home Page?
337
1
Here's a Good One--Let's Change It
337
2
21 Advanced Web Authoring
339
16
Lots More Formatting
340
5
The Other Paragraph Styles
340
1
How About Creating Lists?
340
2
Creating Customized Lists
342
1
Positioning Paragraphs
343
1
How Can I Modify Character Formats?
344
1
Creating Links Within Documents
345
1
Creating Tables
345
2
Setting Up Page Properties
347
2
Publishing Your Work
349
3
Relative versus Absolute Links
349
1
Moving Your Files to Your Service Provider
350
2
The Composer Properties
352
3
Index
355