Netscape Handbook: Table of Contents
1. What sections can I skip over?
2. What will I learn in this handbook?
3. How can beginning Internet users install Netscape?
4. How can Windows users install basic Netscape?
5. How can Mac and UNIX users install basic Netscape?
6. What else do I need to know?
7. What's on each Netscape page?
8. Quickly, how do I start?
9. What's good on the Internet?

If you're experienced with the Internet and World Wide Web browsers, consider going directly to Menu Items and Answers to Tough Questions, scanning these reference sections for unfamiliar topics.

If you're familiar with the Internet and browsers, but want an overview of the features visible in Netscape's main window, begin with Graphic Elements, then continue with the aforementioned reference sections.

If you have some understanding of Internet concepts, but are new to World Wide Web browsers, you might want to proceed directly to the Learn Netscape tutorial, then to the reference sections.

If you detest mirth in your documentation, don't even consider reading the Heartwarming Introduction. You can skip over these interpersonal dialogs and not miss a thing about how Netscape works (you'll find the basics are also explained elsewhere in the handbook).

Otherwise, continue on with Before You Begin for more about handbook content, software installation, and a start-up summary.

For information particular to a software release (such as newly added features and helper applications), run the Netscape software and choose the Help/Release Notes menu item (the Release Notes item under the Help menu).

Before You Begin

tells you what's ahead and offers information to give you a quick start with Netscape Navigator software.

Heartwarming Introduction

is like nothing you've ever read in a product manual. It's conversations with the Kafka family. Those of you new to Netscape and the Internet might find you'll acquire what you most need to know in the least daunting of manners.

Learn Netscape

presents the prominent topics of Netscape operation in short, tutorial style. Some topics may interest you immediately; others only after you've used the software and desire more instruction.

Graphical Elements

is a general reference to the Netscape application organized by what you see on the screen. You can grasp the software's key operations without being distracted by a preponderance of details.

Menu Items

is a specific reference to each feature of the Netscape application obtained through the menu bar and the pop-up menu. You'll find this section methodically explains most of the software's capabilities.

Answers to Tough Questions

provides detail on a range of topics from tips and tricks to security to Internet tools.

Index

is the first place to go when you have a topic in mind.

To gain access to the Internet you need to have an Internet connection. The initial Netscape Navigator releases are designed for users who already have an Internet connection. A variety of enhanced Netscape products (which may or may not be available at the time you read this) provide easy-to-connect-to-the-Internet features for a first-time Internet user to gain simple access.

(In more technical terms: To use Netscape software to access any remote file you must establish a connection to the Internet or a connection to a private TCP/IP network. The connection can be through a dialup SLIP/PPP account or direct local