1) Composed is screwing up my images.
2) When I press 'enter' I get an extra blank line. How do I just go down one line without the extra blank?
3) I want to make a link from one area of the page to another
4) When I click on a link I want the page to open in a new window so people don't have to press the "back" button and get lost.
5) I want to create a form that my students can fill in, and have the results e-mailed to me. How?
6) It's too hard to type long URLs when I want to make a link. Any shortcuts?

1) Composed is screwing up my images.
- it can't find them,
- it makes them tiny,
- it insists on looking for them at file///C;.... instead of the file name I give them.

What do I do?

(Some of these problems are solved in Netscape 6. Of course, other problems might arise as 6 is fairly new. To get 6, go to http://www.uvm.edu/software )

To solve the problem in Netscape 4, try this:

- before you create the page, put all pictures in the same folder on your hard drive as the web page you are creating .
- create the page. Click on the "Image" icon to insert an image.
- Use "Choose File" and choose the image.
- make sure the "Constrain" box (under Dimensions, Height and Width) is NOT checked.
- click OK
- save the file
- right click on the image, and delete everything except the file name from the "Image Location" box

- FTP all your images to your web space on zoo first. Put them into whatever folders within public_html that you want to store them in
- create a new file in Composer
- click on the image icon to insert an image
- type in the formal URL for the picture. For example, if I have a picture file named "skiing.jpg" in my 'funstuff' folder in my public_html folder on zoo, I would type the address http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/funstuff/skiing.jpg
- now: check the little box under the address that says: Leave image at the original location
- click OK. Voila! your image appears

- hold down the shift key, then press 'enter'

Use Targets. here's how:
- go to the are that you want to jump to.
- click the "target" icon
- type in a name for this are. A single word, no spaces, no caps. Numbers are OK.
- click OK. Composer inserts a little icon. This icon will not show on your web page.
- go to the text that you want to click on to jump to that area.
- select it, and click the "link" icon
- your target should appear in a list
- click on it, click on OK.

4) When I click on a link I want the page to open in a new window so people don't have to press the "back" button and get lost.

- create the link by selecting your text, clicking on the "link" icon, and typing in the address of the page you want to link to.
- don't click OK yet. Click the "Extra HTML" button
- in the box that comes up, type: target="blank"
- click OK, click OK
- save the file and upload it to zoo.
 

Netscape Composer 4 does not have an easy way to create forms. Netscape Composer 6 doesn't exactly, though it does let you type in HTML tags more easily, so at least it is possible.

Other web editors make this fairly easy. There is also the WebCT survey tool that could be adapted.

To read about creating forms at UVM, and for instructions on how to do so, see:
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/wcreate/emailform.html
 

Make it easy on yourself. 
When you want to create a link to a page, open that page first, highlight the URL and copy it by either pressing Ctrl-c or by right clicking on the URL.
Create the page in Composer, create your link by clicking on the "link" icon, then click in the URL box and choose paste by pressing Ctrl-v or by right clicking and choosing paste from the pop-up menu