With the advent of Netscape Netcaster, Netscape has pioneered the "webtop", a desktop Web environment created out of HTML, Java, and JavaScript that runs on multiple platforms and allows users to access the wealth of information and resources on a company intranet and/or the Internet right from their desktops.

To aid developers in creating customized webtops, Netscape is now introducing the Webtop Wizard, an easy to use tool that helps you to build a Dynamic HTML webtop containing links to the web pages and applications that you find useful within your company or on the Internet.

GETTING STARTED

Click on each of the tabs to enter settings, then press the "Generate Webtop" button. This creates all the resources for your webtop and asks for you to specify the directory into which to save the webtop including the collateral graphic resources it requires. Once you've done this open your newly created webtop by using file open in Communicator to open the index.htm file in this directory.

Drawers are provided in which you can group your applications and HTML pages. Sections are the primary modes of your webtop and when clicked bring up a URL in the main body of the webtop. Currently only non-framed web pages are supported by sections.

The webtop includes a ticker, which takes information from a separate file. A company or division could hold this ticker file on the network and update it with news and information relevant to employees. The ticker can contain html links referencing more details on this news.

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Any sample code included above is provided for your use on an "AS IS" basis, under the Netscape License Agreement - Terms of Use