Introduction to the Guide

• What is Nvu
• Who is Nvu for?
• Scope of the Guide
• Navigation

A very, very, very brief introduction to using Nvu

• Preliminary
• Create and open pages
• Edit and save a page
• Help

Getting to grips with the main features of Nvu other than using styles which is in the next section.

• Finding your way around
• Creating and editing pages
• Mini-guide to html
• The body and head areas
• Working with text, images, tables
• Creating and using links
• Frames
• Forms
• Layers
• Tables of contents
• Different views of the page
• How to select items for editing

Explains what styles and stylesheets are and how to use them in Nvu.

• Introduction
• Creating internal styles
• Named classes
• External styles
• Style selectors
• Removing styles
• The div element

Brief introdution to using Scripts with Nvu.

Covers what is included on Nvu's 'Insert' menu.

Covers the use of templates in Nvu. This function is at an early stage of development.

• What are templates?
• Create a new template
• Saving templates
• Create a template from a page
• Set up template details
• Using templates
• Editing templates

Using the Site Manager to get quick access to Nvu files. (Publishing is covered in the section on 'Publishing')

• Overview
• Setting up
• Functions
• Remote sites

Setting up Nvu to get the best results or to meet personal or site demands.

• Preferences
• Defaults
• General tab
• Font tab
• New page tab
• Advanced settings
• Toolbars
• Menu alternatives to buttons

Preparing and checking files ready for publishing either using Nvu's Site Manager or by other means

• Introduction
• Validation
• Publishing

Glossary of terms used in the User Guide

Links to references relevent to the subject matter of the Guide.
References are gradually being integrated into individual sections so this appendix will eventually disappear.

Lists the doctypes which Nvu can use, the differences between them and recommends a choice.

• Updating your system with new releases of the program
• Installing Nvu and KompoZer on the same machine
• Adding Extensions
• Setting up alternative profiles

How to set up different stylesheets for different media with particular reference to improving 'printability' of web pages.

What the 'charset' parameter means and does. How character encodings differ. What the Universal Character Set used by web pages is. How to get the best out of Unicode fonts. Also something about setting encoding options for Advanced properties on the preferences of the tools menu.

Dates and brief details of changes made

Copyright details

How the Guide came about in the first place and
... just a few credits.

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