Transforming Netscape Bookmarks
Into Webpages
With minimal effort, your Netscape Bookmarks list can be
converted to a webpage which can be saved on your local hard disk, on a floppy disk or
even uploaded to the World Wide Web. You can reconfigure the default homepage setting on
Netscape to automatically open to the webpage you created from your bookmarks list.
Its easy! Just follow these steps:
- Before you start the conversion process, double-check that
you have created a "web" directory/folder on your floppy disk or hard drive
- Open Netscape.
- Open the bookmark window (Ctrl-B or Command-B).
- Navigate to the File menu.
- Select Save As. When the Save As dialog
box appears, select the "web" folder/directory you created on your floppy disk
or hard drive as the destination for the file.
- Now, change the default Bookmarks file name to web1.htm
(Note: you can use a different file name as long as it has all lowercase letters, is five
letters or less and has the .htm suffix.)
- Save the renamed bookmarks file.
- Exit/Quit Netscape.
Tech Talk: Netscape saves all its bookmarks as webpages deep within its
directories. You have just taken this webpage, renamed it with an acceptable short webpage
file name and added the .htm which will identify the file as a webpage when it is opened
with a web browser.
- Now, open Netscape Composer.
- Navigate to the "web" directory / folder you
created earlier and open the web1.htm file. (Hint: You
may need to select "All Files" from the "Files of Type" drop down menu
if web1.htm doesnt appear automatically.)
- Edit the webpage.. You may want to change the webpage
title, the background colors, add some graphics or rename or remove some of the links.
- Save the changes that you make.
Now its time to see what your bookmark webpage
looks like. Follow these steps:
- Click on the Preview button which will
open Netscape Navigator with your new webpage automatically or
- Open Netscape Navigator.
- Navigate to the File menu and select Open
Page.
- Be sure that the Navigator radio button
is selected in the Open File or Location in: section of the dialog box.
- Click on Choose File. Navigate to the
directory/folder where you saved the web1.htm file.
- Double-click on the web1.htm
file.
- Finally, click on Open. Your new webpage
will appear on the screen.
- Test some of the links to make sure that they work.
You can add this webpage to your bookmarks list just like
any other webpage you might find on the web. You can even make it your Netscape Homepage
by following these steps.
- With your webpage on the screen, carefully drag across the
entire address found in the Location: bar while holding down the mouse button. The
location address will be selected.
- Select Copy from the Edit
menu to copy the address to the clipboard.
- Select Preferences from the Edit
menu.
- Look for Home Page section near the
center of the dialog box.
- Write down the address in the box in the event that you
want to change things back after you try the steps that follow.
- Remove the homepage location currently in the text box,
position the cursor in the box and select Paste from the Edit
menu.
- The address leading to your web1.htm file will appear in
the box.
- Click on OK and the box will close.
- Click on the Home button and your webpage
will reappear on the screen.
- Follow several of the hypertext links that take you away
from the homepage and then click on the Home button again. You should return to your new
homepage.
Next: Building
an Index page for your mini-website.
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