More than 75% of all people browsing the World Wide Web use Netscape, in part because of the program's many powerful features. Netscape 2.0, the browser's just-released major upgrade, offers even more features--all of which are fully explained in this new Visual QuickStart Guide. This book helps readers go from installing the software to using its advanced capabilities.

Explains how to set up Netscape, navigate the World Wide Web, use e-mail, access newsgroups, and create Web pages

Netscape has captured the lion's share of the Web browser market. Its advanced features make it the premier Internet navigation tool you can use. The Macintosh is ideally suited to take advantage of the features of Web browser like Netscape since most Macs are already set up to run the basic capabilities that you will need including graphics and sound. This book will show you how to set up and configure Netscape, as well as a variety of other Web Browsers for the Macintosh, including NCSA MacMosaic, PLUSMosaic, MacWeb, and NetShark. As well as providing an up-to-date snapshot of some of the best web sites around, the author also includes an introduction to Netscape 2.0 for the Macintosh and illustrates some of its powerful new features.

More than 75 percent of all people browsing the World Wide Web use Netscape, in part because of the program's many powerful features. Netscape 2.0, the browser's just-released major upgrade, offers even more features - all of which are fully explained in this new Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the VQS series' proven rich graphical approach, the book helps readers go from installing the software to using its advanced capabilities. Netscape 2.0's new features include a built-in emailer, a much-improved bookmark editor, support for superscript and subscript text, and a new plug-in architecture that allows seamless integration of Quicktime movies, Adobe Acrobat PDF documents, and Director multimedia presentations right into Web pages. For those building their own Web pages, for whom Netscape is the overwhelming application of choice, Netscape 2.0 includes dozens of improvements - ensuring that the Netscape 2: Visual QuickStart Guide will appeal to that growing group as well.

Demonstrates how to become adjusted to the Macintosh operating system and how to transfer data from a Windows system to a Macintosh, discussing topics such as moving files and Macintosh equivalents to Windows-only programs.

Explains how to use the Web authoring program to design a site using text, links, graphics, tables, frames, forms, and plug-ins.