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You need both programs -- the browser (Navigator) and editor (Composer) to download complete pages. You can tell if you have both on your machine by clicking the File choice on your toolbar menu. If you have an "Edit" option, you have Composer on the machine. If you don't have Navigator and Composer, they are free downloads from Netscape: http://home.netscape.com/

Once you have the page you want in your browser screen, simply click the pull-down menu

File > Edit

Netscape will automatically open Composer and bring in the page from your browser.

Next, simply save the page to disk from Composer

File > Save As

Be sure to save the file somewhere you can get to in your directory structure. Also, be sure to save it with exactly the same file name it had on the web. (If you do, it will continue to navigate on your disk when you've saved any related files.)

Hint: If you're saving a frames page, you have to save three separate files:

The first is the frame. You'll find this when you try to pull a a frames page into Composer. What will appear is an almost blank page that says something like: "This page is using frames, but your browser doesn't support frames" Go ahead and save that page. It provides the 'Frame' for the other two pages that you really want.

Once you've gotten the 'frame' saved, go back to the Navigator and 'right-button' click on one of the panels in the frame set. In the 'pop-up' menu that will appear, the top item will be to "open page in a new browser." That's just what you want to do!

When you've gotten the 'piece' into it's own browser, just save it the same way you save any single page Navigator: File > Edit; Composer: File > Save As.

Repeat the 'right-button' click for each panel in the frame set.

When you're ready to open the complete frame set from your own disk, it's the 'frame' (the plain file with the warning) that assembles everything to look the way it looks on the web. That file is the one you want to open from your browser.

If you've never played with web pages before. It might be worth doing this kind of download just to see what happens. If you download this page that way for example, you'll get a good many more files than you might expect (7 altogether). Try it and see what happens.