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KompoZer User Guide — 17 December 2007 Based on version 0.7.10 8

ments which have been originated in other variants

and again ‘Use CSS Styles ...’ gives maximum func-

tionality.

Note If you find a button or menu item disabled

it is likely to be a because ‘Use CSS Styles ...’ is

not set but could be because of the context of

the action.

3.2.2 Options for starting a page

There are several ways to start new pages or open

existing ones.

To start a new blank page.

On the menu bar click File > New.

A window headed ‘Create a new document or tem-

plate’ appears. Check the boxes ‘A blank document’

and ‘Strict DTD’ and clear ‘create a XHTML document’.

(Without Strict DTD checked the document would

have Transitional DTD.)

Note If you wish to make these your defaults

which are offered every time you create a new

page click Tools > Options > Advanced and

check the boxes Markup Language: ‘HTML 4’

and DTD: ‘Strict’.

The use of templates is covered in section 7.

To open an existing page.

Either:

1. Click the OPEN button to access a normal

browse dialogue.

2. Click File > Recent Pages to get rapid access to

those recently worked on.

3. Or use the Site Manager (section 8) which pro-

vides a powerful mini-browser and is very easily set up.

The Doctype of an existing page will remain the

same as before it was opened. It cannot be changed in

KompoZer.

Each page opened starts in a new tab which can be

clicked to select a document to work on.

3.3 Editing in KompoZer

KompoZer supports all the standard Windows edit-

ing commands and short-

cut keys. e.g. Copy Ctrl+C,

Paste Ctrl+V etc. There are

other KompoZer specifics.

These are great time sav-

ers.

In ‘HTML Tags’ view

KompoZer supports drag and drop editing for block

items. (Select an item by pressing the Control key

while clicking on the Tag.)

An extreme time saver is KompoZer's double click

response. In several cases, such as links, images and

tables, a very useful editing window is opened.

KompoZer supports many levels of Undo and Redo,

however changes made in ‘Source’ view cannot be

undone after you have changed the view.

3.3.1 Tutorial - Brief introduction to HTML

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is

the publishing language of the World Wide Web on

which KompoZer is based. Ideally it should be possible

to use KompoZer without any knowledge of this lan-

guage and certainly without a knowledge of the details.

As a precaution however a limited understanding is

desirable. This tutorial covers a minimum of detail

while introducing some useful features of KompoZer.

Start a new blank page as described above.

On the status bar click on the ‘<> Source’ tab. You

will see a number of terms enclosed within angle <>

brackets. These are HTML ‘Tags’. Everything starting

from the <body> and finishing with </body> will ap-

pear on your web page.

Note In most cases tags occur in pairs - opening

tags and closing tags - Closing tags always start

with a forward slash.

All the page consists of now is a <br> tag which is

a line break and which is, of course, invisible.

Later as a page builds up many more tags will be

added. For the most part the pairs of tags enclose

‘contents’ from which the page is built up - items like

Paragraphs, Headings, Tables, Images. The tags plus

the contents are called ‘elements’. The tag names are

usually either the same as element names or abbrevi-

ations of them. Some examples are ‘table’, ‘img’ for

image, ‘p’ for paragraph, 'br' for line break (which is

unusual in having no closing tag).

Nothing between the <head> and </head> tags will

appear on the screen but may have quite useful func-

tions nonetheless. For instance, between the <title>

and </title> tags there isn't anything. Go for it, be-

tween them type “My first page” or something like that.

Click the tab for ‘Normal’ view, now the tab at the top

carries your page title and you've edited raw HTML.

Well done!

If you were too timid to do this all is not lost. There

is no need to use source view at all. Go to Format >

Page Title and Properties, here you can enter various

parameters including the title and the language you

are writing in. These will be entered in the HEAD area

for you. In some circumstances they can be important;

the Title and Description, for instance, can be used by

search engines to index the page.

Back to '<> Source'. Notice the first tag is <html>

and the last </html>. All web pages must carry these

in these positions. Actual-

ly the case doesn't matter

for any tag though it's

good practice to use lower

case. (For XHTML lower

case is mandatory.)

The first line, in a dif-

ferent colour, specifies the

‘Doctype’. This is a refer-

ence to the type of HTML

document. KompoZer de-

termines the Doctype ac-

cording to the options

selected on starting a page.

Finally, give the docu-

ment a name and save it.

3.3.2 Saving files

Go to File > Save as.

You are offered a ‘Save

Page as’ window which al-

lows you to browse to the

folder you want to use.

You will find the file name

already completed with

your page title. You will

probably want to change

Tip: The plus sign (+)

means that you must

press two keys surround-

ing the plus sign at the

same time.

Tip: Filenames should

generally be composed of

unaccented letters, num-

bers and the underscore

character. Some others

are permissible but the

rules for incorporating

them are more complex.

Tip: Web pages are

stored (hosted) on serv-

ers which usually run ei-

ther a version of Windows

or UNIX operating sys-

tems. UNIX filenames are

case-sensitive while Win-

dows are not. For this rea-

son if you use mixed

cases in filenames you

must be very rigorous. A

site which runs perfectly

in your local Windows en-

vironment or on a host

running Windows if trans-

ferred to a UNIX system

might require extensive

and time-consuming

changes.

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