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Things to Know About NaviPress and NaviServer

A Client-Server Tool

NaviPress and NaviServer work together in a client-server architecture. Either tool can be used without the other-you can use NaviPress to browse other Web servers and to author pages that you save to the file system and then transfer with ftp, and you can use NaviServer as your Web server that readers browse with other Web browsers. However, their full power shows best when they work together.

• You can author pages with NaviPress, but you can only save them on a networked server if it supports the HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) PUT protocol. NaviServer does.
• You can manage a NaviServer remotely by accessing it with NaviPress or another Web browser.
• You can create forms with NaviPress that a NaviServer can process through its database management system.

If you don't have your own server on the Web, you can still take advantage of NaviSoft's client/server development environment with NaviSoft Host.

Browse and Author

NaviPress has a different interface than other Web browsers, such as Mosaic or Netscape. NaviPress is an editor and a browser. The editing and formatting features and menus are not available in other Web browsers.

Because we integrate authoring and browsing, you can integrate reading and correction. If you are browsing (reading) your Web site on a NaviServer where you have permission to change pages, you can correct any errors and republish the page immediately.

You can copy material from pages you are browsing - including text, images, hyperlinks, and full URLs - and paste them into pages that you are authoring.

Pages and MiniWebs

NaviPress uses two kinds of windows: Page windows and MiniWeb windows. You use Page windows to browse and author individual Web pages, and you use MiniWeb windows to work on a collections of related pages. When NaviPress starts, by default, you get a Page window. Page windows and MiniWeb windows are visually distinct from each other and have different menus and commands. However, basic principles about the interface, such as drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste, work the same in both windows.

You can open many page windows and MiniWeb windows. You may have up to 30 page windows open at any time, and each page window has its own history.

Local Disks and Networked Servers

Finally, as a client-server system, the NaviSoft tools allow you to work locally or remotely through a network. You can edit pages on a networked NaviServer and publish them there if you have "write" permission-granted by that NaviServer's administrator-or you can publish the pages, after editing, on another NaviServer. You can save an integrated set of Web pages to a local disk or server, while you work on them, and then publish them elsewhere when you finish. In general you cannot publish to other Web sites that do not use NaviServer, because they can only serve pages for browsing. The ability to publish to a networked server is unique to NaviPress-NaviServer.

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