Personal Training for Netscape
MACINTOSH

1 - Official Guide to Netscape Navigator 1.1/1.0

EXTRA PRACTICE

Practice After Lesson 5

Refer to your Quick Reference document if you need any help completing these tasks.

1) Use the Directory button named “What’s New” to go to that page, and when the What’s New page has loaded, click on a link that interests you. If you would like to follow links to additional pages, feel free to explore, and when you’re ready, continue with step 2 below.

2) Use a button in the Toolbar to go quickly to the Netscape Home page.

3) Use the Directory button named “Net Search” to go to that page, then click on the Webcrawler Searching link.

To search for classical music pages:

(a) click in the long white rectangle,
(b) type in classical music,
(c) make sure the checkbox labeled “AND words together” displays an X,
(d) use the "Number of results to return" rectangle as a pop-up menu to select 10,
(e) click on the Search button.

4) To save this search list:

(a) use the File menu to choose Save-As,
(b) name this file Classical Sites,
(c) use the Format pop-up menu to select Source,
(d) click on the Save button.

5) Use the File menu to open a new window, then use the File menu again to open a file, then double-click on the file named “Classical Sites,” and in the new window, notice the search list and all its links are displayed.

6) Now click on one of the links on the saved search list, and after the page has loaded, use the Bookmarks menu to add that page as a bookmark, then use a button (see picture below) to return to the previous page, and click on another link, and after that page has loaded, use the Bookmarks menu to add that page as a bookmark.

7) To create a header for the bookmark items you just added:

(a) use the Bookmarks menu to view bookmarks,
(b) on the left, scroll to the bottom of the list of bookmarks, and notice the new bookmarks were added to the bottom of the list,
(c) click on the first bookmark you added,
(d) on the right, click on the New Header button,
(e) drag to highlight the name in the Name rectangle,
(f) type in Classical Sites, and on the left, click on the header,
(g) then click on the first classical music bookmark you added, and below the list, click on the down-pointing arrow,
(h) click on the second bookmark you added, and click on the up-pointing arrow (to indent it),
(i) and now that both bookmarks are in the Classical Sites submenu, double-click on the header Classical Sites.

8) Now close the Bookmark List window, and use the Bookmarks menu to choose Classical Sites, then choose the first bookmark in that submenu.

9) That’s it for this practice session, so use a button to return to the Netscape Home page, then turn the audio back on, and continue with the tutorial.

Practice After Lesson 8

1) To subscribe to a newsgroup containing announcements for new web pages, use the Directory menu to go to newsgroups, and if a page titled "Server List"  appears, click on the link of your news server. On the Subscribed Newsgroups page, to the right of the words “Subscribe to this newsgroup,” click in the rectangle, and type in comp.infosystems.www.announce, then press Return.

2) To see the articles in this newsgroup, click on its link, and once the list of articles has appeared, click on any article link you’d like to read.

3) To unsubscribe from this newsgroup, at the top of the page, click on the Subscribed Newsgroups button, then on the Subscribed Newsgroups page, click in the newsgroup’s checkbox, and click on the button named “Unsubscribe from Selected Newsgroups.”

Now use a button to return to the Netscape Home page.

4) Use the File menu to open the file named “Practice After Lesson 8.”

To download a Quick Time movie file:

(a) first point to the Waterfall Movie  link, and in the Status bar, at the end of the URL, notice the letters "mov" are displayed, 
(b) then on the page, click on one of the Simple Player links, to download an application that can play "mov" files, (if that first link does not work, try the other links, and if those links don't work, refer to the "Downloading Sound App" section of  the Quick Reference document),
(c) after that application has been downloaded to your computer and automatically decompressed, use the Options menu to change the preferences,
(d) use the pop-up menu at the top of the window to select Helper Applications,
(e) scroll down the list of Mime Types, and locate the Mime Type that lists extensions of “qt, mov,”
(f) click on that Mime Type,
(g) then near the bottom of the window, in the Action area, make sure the circle labeled "Launch Application" is selected, then click on the Browse button,
(h) and in the PTS Pages folder, double-click on the Simple Player application,
(i) then click on OK,
(j) and on the page, click on the Waterfall Movie link.

5) After the movie has downloaded, notice a window displaying waterfalls has appeared, and to play this movie, just press the Space bar, and after the movie has finished playing, use the File menu to quit Simple Player. 

6) That’s it for this practice session, so use a button to return to the Netscape Home page, then turn the audio back on, and continue with the tutorial.