NaviPress 1.1  for Windows

NaviPress is an integrated browsing and WYSIWYG authoring tool for the World Wide Web. NaviPress was designed both to make WWW authoring more accessible to beginners and to save valuable time and effort for professional Web publishers.

System Requirements:

• To use NaviPress, you should have at least a 386 with 8 megabytes of RAM. You should also have Windows 3.1 or later and at least 5 megabytes of free disk space.
• 8 megabytes or more of RAM are recommended.
• You should have an Internet service provider, a modem, and the appropriate connection software.(Trumpet winsock, Chameleon, etc) If you do not already have a WINSOCK.DLL, one will be installed that allows you to operate NaviPress locally. If you install a network connection later you will need to delete the winsock.dll in the navipress directory for NaviPress to use the network.

Installing NaviPress

1. Double-click on the Setup.exe. It will prompt you for a directory in which to install NaviPress.
2. Launch NaviPress by double-clicking on its icon.
3. NaviPress does not insist that you set a proxy server and a name server but it is highly recommended that you set them using Tools=>Preferences=>Network.

Notes and Hints:

General Authoring:

• NaviPress is rather strict about enforcing legal HTML. When using NaviPress to edit pages which were created outside of NaviPress, it may change HTML which does not comply to the HTML 3.0 standard and specifications when saving it.  
• In HTML the formatting information for a paragraph is located before the paragraph, unlike word processors where the formatting information is located at the end of the paragraph. Thus when selecting text to replace formatting, copy/paste, or drag/drop it is necessary to include the carriage return before the paragraph if you want the formatting to be included.
• Using the MiniWeb view NaviPress allows the user to Edit=>Cut or backspace/delete an icon (subsequently deleting the object) without the presence of a confirmation dialog box.
• NaviPress does not "lock" files. When concurrent editing of the same page is occurring changes may be overwritten. Be careful and use reload often if multiple people are editing the same page concurrently.
• To edit text or images which are links without following the link hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and click with the mouse.
• To create a MiniWeb out of a directory, or to regenerate a MiniWeb that isn't showing all of the files that it should (after moving files outside of NaviPress) use the Webize dialog by pressing Ctrl-Shift-W (or choose Tools=>Webize from the MiniWeb view).
• Double-click on a link to display the linked page in a new window.

Tables

• Selecting (highlighting) a table in the page view requires that the paragraph before and after the table be selected. Dragging the mouse across or double clicking on a table will not highlight it but dragging the pointer from the paragraph above to the paragraph beneath (or vice-versa) will select the table.
• Selecting tables within tables and tables at the end of the page:  When a table is the first or last item in a table cell the table is not selectable with the mouse.  This is because the selection of a table requires the selection of a paragraph before and after the table. It is easy to avoid this problem once you are aware of it. When creating tables nested within tables insert paragraphs into the table cell (by hitting Return) and place the cursor between these paragraphs when choosing Create Table.  Extra paragraphs can be easily deleted later.
  
  If you find yourself in this state, the workaround is to add a <P> tag at each end of the table you are trying to select:
  1. Highlight some of the table content (as a refernce point) and choose Tools=>Show HTML.
  2. The highlighted selection should be highlighted in the Show HTML window.
     Insert <P> before the beginning table tag (<TABLE BORDER .....>) to insert a paragraph before the table.
  3. Insert a <P> tag immediately after the closing table tag (</TABLE>) to insert a paragraph after the table
  4. Select Parse and Close from the file menu in the Show HTML window.
     
• Typing in tables: Resizing tables on the fly as text is inserted is a lot of work and the typing speed in tables can be slower as a result. The more cells there are in the table, the slower the typing will be.
• Alter Table will remove table attributes that are not authored through the NaviPress menus (e.g. Align=).
• Using Undo and Redo in Tables sometimes requires two Undos/Redos for certain functions (e.g. Merge Cell).
• The display of table border and contents becomes disjoint when inserting text into a table that contains ALIGN = CENTER in the <TABLE ...> tag. Causing the screen to refresh will correct the display.

Lists

• More that one list element on the same line occurs when there are lists nested inside a list without a paragraph tag between the list tags.  This only happens when Edit Complex lists is set.  It is impossible to insert text between two such list elements from the page view. The workaround is to manually add <P> tags after the <LI> tag in the Show HTML window.
• Exiting from nested lists: NaviPress only allows one level at a time to be exited. If you wish to exit multiple nested levels, choose Format=>Exit List Format multiple times and delete the unwanted list elements when finished.
• Nested lists may not show Paragraph Alignments (other than left) correctly. You may see some text appear crowded together; try aligning left to space it correctly.
• Deleting nested list items: When deleting inner levels from a multi-nested list (e.g. deleting the 2nd and 3rd level items from a nested list with 4 nested levels), list elements (bullets, numbers) can be left in odd positions. Saving and reloading should fix the display.

MiniWebs

• Short Menus (Tools=>Preferences=>General) are disabled.
• If MiniWebs don't reflect the contents of the directory, Webize.
  NaviPress can't tell if a MiniWeb filename has been changed outside of NaviPress. If you change, add, or delete files or links in a MiniWeb outside of NaviPress, or ever notice that the MiniWeb view is not reflecting the true status of the directory, be sure to webize/regenerate the MiniWeb.
• Use the display control dialog (under the View menu) to hide icons for external links, images, etc. if you find the MiniWeb Web view has too many icons to be useful.
• Filename change in MiniWebs
  • does not update links in subwebs.
  • does not update links in image maps
  • removes anchor extensions from links it changes
• When editing long filenames in a MiniWeb using a list view (Name, Title, or MIME type) the file name display allows for ~27 characters.  After that the text exceeds the filename box and is displayed behind the title.  The workaround is to use the Web view to rename files longer than 27 characters.

Display

• NaviPress does not display transparent gifs.  NaviPress will match the background color, but not a background image. When browsing amongst pages referencing the same transparent gif but with different background colors you may notice that the background color for the gif is cached as the color of the first visited page.  Hitting reload will display the image with the current background color.
• NaviPress shares the color pallete between NaviPress windows and with other applications. When a window does not have all of the colors it is requesting the display will look weird.  This is most apparent on images and backgrounds and is generally noticed when a page is loading or when there is another window or application in the foreground. Bringing the window to the foreground should correct this.
• Dragging a selection over a floating image will cause the image to flash while the mouse button is depressed.
• NP handles <center> tags differently than Netscape. NaviPress is stricter about the placement of tags and has a preferences item to choose whether the display will conform to Netscape extensions or the HTML 3.0 specification.
• Background images flash when typing text.

Miscellaneous

• Opening or editing a page with a large amount of text (>100K) is very slow with NaviPress, and NaviPress will crash if given a file that is too large.  
• Using Elements=>Image Map on an existing Image Map will remove any attributes from the IMAGE MAP tag (e.g. BORDER=0) that are not authored through NaviPress menus.
• Check Links will indicate "Could not find ..." when there is a redirect at the specified URL.
• There is no File=>Quit option  from the 'Show HTML' window.  This is a feature to prevent people from trying to close the window by using quit, due to the fact that they are used in Netscape's "show source" which lauches an independent text editor.
• Within a <Center> tag: Elements=>Get Attribute (or Elements=>Image, Link, Image Map, or Anchor with such an attribute already selected) will always change the selection to the first attribute item within the Center tag.
• The hotlist window does not have a horizontal scroll bar.  To read long URLs the window may be resized larger.
• NaviPress does not support printing on Windows 95.
• The Save As progress gauge sometimes indicates "Full" during the entire save.
• NaviPress may give an error when printing forms.
• The horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of a text area overlaps the last line of text for text areas with a certain number of rows.