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Newsletter Archives Creating and Using the Links Bar in your Browser November 24, 2002 Addendum to the November 17, 2002 Article on the Browser Links Bar
If you use the Links bar in your browser, you may want to change the icons on the bar to something more helpful (or to something a little less boring than that blue e!).
To do this, right-click the link you want to change and choose Properties. When the dialog box opens, click Change Icon. Click Browse, scroll through the icons and click on the one that you want to use.
Note: You can change most icons this way, including the ones on your desktop. November 17, 2002 Creating and Using the Links Bar in your Browser
We all have a few favorite Websites that we return to frequently. If you’d like to make it easier for you to visit these websites again, you can put shortcuts to them on the Links bar in your browser. This shows you how to make a push button link to any site, or to any page within a site.
Internet Explorer users:
1. Open Browser. On the Menu bar click View. Hover your mouse over Toolbars, and be sure that Links is checked in drop down menu (if not, click on it). On right hand side of your top tool bar you will now see a Links button.
2. Go to a web page that you use frequently and would like to create a shortcut to. When you're at the site you want to create the Link button for, put your mouse cursor on the blue e or the icon next to the URL (the www address) and click, hold down the mouse button, and drag the URL out of the address bar, and drop it over the Links button.
Click on the button with the two right arrows (>>) at the side of the Links button, and you'll see that a new link has appeared in the drop down list, with the page title listed.
3. Change the title: if it's too long, or doesn't say what you want it to say, right click the link button, and left click Rename. Type the name you want for this button, and click OK. It will now have the name you want.
To visit the site next time you're on-line, just click the button and the page loads. You don't have to type anything.
Netscape users:
There's a link icon to the left of the location field. Drag this link and drop it to create a link button. The principles are the same between the two browsers, but the details are a bit different. To rename a link, go to Window > Bookmarks > Edit Bookmarks. RIGHT click the bookmark you want to work with, and select Properties.
Type in a new name, click OK, close the window, and you're done. It's a bit more involved with Netscape, but like anything, once you've done it a few times it's easy.
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