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Mozilla Seamonkey Composer: Installation

Most students begin the class never having published a webpage before. To create and publish your webpages, I recommend that you use the Mozilla Seamonkey Composer program. This is free software, easy to use, and it is available for both Windows and Macintosh computers.

NOTE about other web publishing software. If you want to use other computer software to complete your webpages, you are free to do so, but I cannot provide technical support for other software. For this reason, you are required to complete this Mozilla Seamonkey Composer assignment, even if later on you decide that you want to use different software to edit and publish your webpages.

NOTE about computer labs. It is possible to do your webpages using the OU IT Computer Labs on the Norman campus, although I strongly (STRONGLY) recommend that you do the work on your own personal computer. If you are going to be doing your work in one of the OU IT Labs, you need to complete this assignment using the Mozilla Seamonkey program which is installed in the Computer Labs. For information about the location and hours of the OU IT Computer Labs, call 325-HELP. (There are other computer labs on campus administered by different colleges and departments, but they are not likely to have Mozilla Seamonkey available.)

This assignment has two steps which you need to complete.

STEP ONE: Installing Composer

Start by installing the latest version of the Mozilla Seamonkey browser suite on your computer:

• Mozilla Seamonkey

(I am assuming that you know how to download and install a computer program on your computer, but if you are having trouble with this process, please get in touch with me and I will provide more detailed instructions.)

STEP TWO: Open the Composer Window

Start Mozilla Seamonkey and check the Window menu. You should see Composer listed there. Select Composer and open the program.

Here is what you should see when you are looking at the main Composer screen (the exact layout that you see may vary slightly, depending on the version of the program you have installed). Once you see this screen, you are good to go for this week - next week, you will use Composer to create and publish your first webpages.

Seamonkey Preferences. If you want, you can configure Mozilla Seamonkey so that it opens automatically to Composer when you start the program. To do that, just go to Seamonkey Preferences, choose Appearance, and select the Composer window as the only one to open on start-up.

Gradebook Declaration

When, you are done, you can do the Declaration for this assignment: