User's Guide Table of Contents

Installation and Setup Guide

Copyright information

Introduction

How does Personal Edition connect me to the Internet
Your end of the world
Users on a local area network
How does Personal Edition help me put this all together
What are the computer requirements
How do I get help?
About this book
What's next

Chapter 1  Exploring the World Wide Web with Netscape Navigator Gold

Additional reading
Starting Netscape Navigator Gold
For Windows 95 users
For Windows 3.1 users
About the Navigator Gold browser window
Viewing other pages
Type a URL
Page information in the browser window
How to see where you've been, and quickly go back
History lists
Bookmarks
Toolbar and Directory buttons
Toolbar buttons
Directory buttons
Searching for information on the Internet
Sending and receiving email
The Mail window
Resizing panes in the Mail window
The Message Composition window
What's a newsgroup
Finding a newsgroup
Subscribing to a newsgroup
Creating and replying to newsgroup messages
Personalizing Netscape Navigator Gold
Selecting a home page
The online Netscape Navigator Handbook
Addresses on the World Wide Web
What's next

Chapter 2  Creating and publishing Web pages

Additional reading
An overview of how Web pages work
Editing vs. browsing
What is a web page
Some new terms to learn
Steps to Creating and Publishing Web pages
Getting Started with Navigator Gold
Some exciting extras
What you see first
Starting the editor
Creating a New Web page
Editing the page you're browsing
Editing an existing file
Basic editor
Entering text
Selecting text
Cut, copy, and paste
Finding text
More advanced editors
Linking Web pages
Creating links
Linking to specific places in your document
Linking graphics
Publishing pages on the World Wide Web
How to get a publishing account with your Internet service provider
Publishing your pages
What's next

Chapter 3  Controlling your dial-up connection

What does the dialer do?
For Windows 95 users
If you can't find the dialer icon
Changing dial-up connection settings
Automating your login
For Windows 3.1 users
The Dialer dialog box
Creating a location
Automating your login
Changing modem settings
What's next

Chapter 4  Tips and Techniques

For all Windows users
For Windows 95 users
Before you connect
DNS configuration in Windows 95
After you connect
Error messages
For Windows 3.1 users
If you have Win32s installed
Before you connect
After you connect
If you're a laptop user
Error messages