In Netscape Communicator, you can either click on the "composer" button in the bottom right corner (looks like a pen)

which will give you a blank document to start with or go under the File menu and choose new : blank document.

Type in your material, there are buttons to change fonts, colours, etc.

To make a link, highlight the text that you want to be linked, click on the link button at the top:

this brings up a dialog box where you type in the appropriate info: ie. http://www.acadiau.ca     You might find it easier to cut and paste from  the Location area where the url is presented than typing in the address to the link. Go to the web page you want to make a link to,  Highlight by clicking the url in the location area and then either use cut and paste buttons, or <Ctrl C> for copy and <Ctrl V> to paste.

Then save your document, either on your f:drive or a disk or both. If you hit the preview button you can see what your page looks like as well as test your links to make sure they work. Sometimes your page looks different in composer (editing) mode and in browser mode, especially spacing, tables, etc.   If you want to add or continue editing you have to go back to edit mode by choosing Edit page under the File menu at the top.
 

Using Word to make an html document. If you already have your assignment written in word. It's fairly simple to change it to html. Under the file menu in Word, there is a "save as html " option.    Word has a link button at the top that has a chain link and a globe for "insert hyperlink" to add links in your page.