Bookmark Tricks

Besides just saving your place on the Internet in one long unorganized list, you can customize your bookmars. You can arrange them. Group them. Export them to a file. And even have them become your home page.

Note: Bookmarks are called favorites in Internet Explorer and bookmarks in Netscape. Both terms are interchangeable. The recommended Internet browser is currently, Internet Explorer 5.0. These directions assume either Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 4.7.

Organizing Your Bookmarks/Favorites

After you have some good bookmarks that are worth organizing and some that are worth throwing away, go to the Favorites/Bookmarks Menu and choose "organize favorites/edit favorites."

In the window that opens, you can rename, delete, and group your bookmarks. The commands for adding folders etc. should be in the File Menu.

Use the same skills for renaming and moving bookmarks as you would doing the same to files on your computer.

Saving a Custom Bookmark/Favorite Page

After the organization, choose Save As... from the File Menu. Type a good name (such as: MyBookmarks.html), navigate to where you want to save them and click SAVE. The program will always update and save new bookmarks into its own file that is in use when you are on the Internet. But your file will not change.

You can use your saved file by choosing Open Page or Open File from the File Menu.

Your custom bookmark file is a real Internet document. It could be viewed by any computer on the Internet if you put it into a server folder.

Making it the Home Page

You could make your new custom page into your everyday Home Page.

Internet Explorer:

Open the page in the browser
Click and HOLD the mouse anywhere on the page, not on a link
Choose "Set Home Page" from the menu that appears
Your page is now your Home page

Netscape:

Open the page in the browser
Go to the Edit Menu and choose Preferences
Click Navigator on the left and look for the controls to set the home page on the right
If the controls are "grayed out", use the Internet Control Panel
Apple Menu -> Control Panels -> Internet
Click the Web tab and set the home page for the computer.