*Save your favorite Web sites so you can revisit them whenever you want*
After you've been online for a while, you'll realize that there are certain Web sites that you visit regularly. To return to one of your favorite sites, you can either enter the Web address by typing it in, or you can save it as a bookmark and simply click it in a menu. Believe me, bookmarks are the way to go.
All three major Web browsers: Internet Explorer*, Safari*, and Firefox* let you save Web addresses (also known as URLs) as bookmarks for easy reference (Internet Explorer calls them Favorites, but they're the same thing).
Say you've come across Art Renewal International (www.artrenewal.org), a wonderful online museum of 19th century oil paintings, and you want to save it in your list of bookmarks.
The procedure for making a bookmark is similar for all three browsers:
- Firefox: Press Ctrl+D to add the current page to your Bookmarks list
- Safari: Press Command+D to add the current page to your Bookmarks list
- Internet Explorer: Press Ctrl+D to add the current page to your Favorites list
Now, whenever you want to revisit Art Renewal International, you can select Bookmarks (or Favorites, in Internet Explorer) from the menu bar, and select the site from the pull-down menu.
If you save a lot of bookmarks, it's a good idea to keep your list organized in folders, each named for a different subject, such as art, health, recipes, and so on.
Here's how to organize your bookmarks:
- Firefox: Under Bookmarks, select Organize Bookmarks
- Safari: Press Command+Option+B
- Internet Explorer: Under Favorites (the large plus sign on the left), select Organize Favorites
