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Newsletter Archives - Bookmarks Question: What is a bookmark is and how is it accomplished?
Answer
Bookmark means to mark a document or a specific place in a document for later retrieval.
Nearly all Web browsers have a book marking feature that lets you save the address (URL) of a Web page so that you can easily re-visit the page at a later time. Bookmarks are also known as Favorites or Favorite Places.
Netscape Navigator
When you have come to a site on the Internet that you would like to come back to on another day, go up to Bookmarks in the menu bar and drag down to Add Bookmark. This will place the title of the site you bookmarked in your list of bookmarks.
To use the bookmark at a later point, go to Bookmarks in the menu bar and click on the bookmark you want.
To sort and organize your bookmarks
1. Go up to Window in the menu bar and drag down to Bookmarks. A Bookmarks window will appear.
2. To create a new folder for common subject bookmarks go up to Item in the menu bar and drag down to Insert Folder.
3. To place the bookmarks in that folder, click on the bookmark and drag it to the folder. (You can select more than one bookmark at a time by holding down the shift key).
4. Select (by clicking on) the folder you would like to sort. Go up to Item and drag down to Sort Bookmarks. This will sort your bookmarks alphabetically within the selected folder. If you want to sort all folders and bookmarks select the top folder before going to Sort Bookmarks all folders and bookmarks within those folders will sort alphabetically.
Saving Bookmarks to a Disk
1. Go up to Window and drag down to Bookmarks.
2. Go up to File and drag down to Save Bookmark file as.... Name your bookmarks and navigate to where you want to save the file.
Opening your saved Bookmarks on another Computer
1. Put your disk into the computer.
2. Open Netscape
3. Go up to File and drag down to Import Bookmarks. The computer will prompt you to select a file. Navigate to where your file is; either your disk or server.
Internet Explorer
Once you get comfortable with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, you will most certainly find sites you really like or you visit quite often. Given the length of some of the URL's out there, the typing can get pretty long, and the longer the URL, the more likely you are to either forget it or mistype it. This is why the Favorites feature is included.
Favorites are just bookmarks you can create that will contain the entire URL of the sites you want or need to remember. You can add, remove, and organize the Favorites however you choose.
Adding Favorites
Once you learn how to add Favorites you will probably fine that you quickly collect a long sized list of useful websites
To Add a Favorite
When you’re viewing a website that you would like to think you would like to return to in the future, click Favorites on the menu bar, then click Add to Favorites. This will bring up a window asking you what you would like to name it. You can name this anything you like, and the URL will remain the same. It's always safe to accept the default given and click OK.
Organizing Favorites into Folders
It’s a good idea is to index your favorites into different folders based upon subject, importance or however you want to organize. This will eliminate a long list of favorites that you would have to scroll through every time you’re looking for something.
In the Add Favorites dialog box, selecting the button Create in will display a new drop listing the available Favorite folders already present. To create a folder, select New Folder. Suppose you found a page on Classical French Cuisine, you might want to put that Favorite in a new folder named Cooking. You would need to click Add to Favorites, then name the book mark French Cuisine, then click Create in, which would give you the option to click New Folder, which you would name Cooking. After you have named the folder, be sure you are in the Cooking folder, and once again, click OK to finalize your addition of a new Favorite.
Supposing you decide a particular Favorite or even an entire Folder needs to be moved into a different Folder, you'll want to use the move button, from within the Organize Favorites windows. By selecting a one or a Folder of Favorites, this button is enabled. With your selection made, click the Move button. This will bring up a new window listing, once again, all your Folders. Select the one you want to move to, and click OK.
Removing Favorites If at some point you find that you no longer need a particular entry in your Favorites, or perhaps an entire Folder of Favorites, then you'll want to remove them. If you recall, when you clicked the Folder icon, there was an option to Organize Favorites. If you select this, a window appears listing all your Folders and the Favorites contained in them.
To remove a single entry, browse through the folders you have by double-clicking the folders one at a time. Each time you do this, you narrow down the list to only the Favorites contained in the Folder you selected. When you find the particular entry you want to remove, click once on it. As you do this, the option to delete the Bookmark is enabled. When this happens, click Delete, and you are all set.
Removing whole Folders follows the same steps. Browse through the folders, and find the one you want to remove. When you are in that folder you will see the contents of it and no other folder. Keep in mind though, there may be folders within folders. If you remove one, and there are folders within it, those folders will be removed. When you are sure you want to remove, click Delete.
America Online
As you explore America Online, you're going to find places that you enjoy and want to visit again. When you encounter an area that you'd like to return to, add it to your Favorite Places. You can even add an e-mail to your list.
To add a Favorite Place to your list
1. Navigate to the site you want to mark as a Favorite Place.
2. Click the heart icon at the top right of the window.
3. In the dialog box that appears, click Add to Favorites.
To return to your Favorite Places
1. On the Favorites menu on the AOL toolbar, click Favorite Places. The Favorite Places window appears.
2. Scroll through the list and double-click the Favorite Place to which you want to return.
You can organize your Favorite Places by creating folders in your list and grouping your favorites into those folders. You can also modify your favorites as needed.
To create a new folder in Favorite Places
1. On the Favorites menu on the AOL toolbar, click Favorite Places.
2. Click New.
3. Click New Folder.
4. Type a name for the folder, and click OK.
5. Select an item and drag it into the new folder.
To edit a Favorite Place
1. On the Favorites menu on the AOL toolbar, click Favorite Places.
2. Select the item or folder you want to change.
3. Click Edit.
4. Type the new name for the Favorite place and/or update the Internet Address.
5. Click OK.
To edit a Favorite Place folder
1. On the Favorites menu on the AOL toolbar, click Favorite Places
2. Select the item or folder you want to change.
3. Click Edit.
4. Type the new name for the Favorite place.
To move an item in Favorite Places
1. On the Favorites menu on the AOL toolbar, click Favorite Places.
2. Drag the item to the new location in the list box.
To share your Favorite Places
1. Navigate to the online area that you'd like to revisit.
2. Click the heart icon at the top right of the window. A dialog box appears.
3. Do one of the following: Click Insert in Instant Message to put a hyperlink to the area in a blank Instant Message note. Or Click Insert in Mail to put a hyperlink to the area in a blank e-mail note. |
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