How-To Guides: Saving Your Favorite Web Sites

As you surf the Internet, you undoubtably will find many Web sites you like. Saving each of these to your Favorites list will make it easy quickly return to these sites. Some sites you will want to revisit more often so why not put these at the top of your list?

When you visit a site that you want to “bookmark” or add to your Favorites, you can add the site to an existing folder or create a new folder where you can store the site. To save a favorite web site, click on Favorites, and Add to Favorites. The site’s default name will appear in the Name Box but you can change the name to anything you choose if it will help you better remember the site content. Click on OK and the site address will be stored in the general Favorites folder.

As you accumulate favorite sites, you may find that your Favorites list is becoming difficult to manage. The solution is to save your Favorites in folders divided by subject. For instance, you may want to save all the Web sites about lesson plans in a folder named "Lesson Plans." To create a new folder, click on Favorites, and Add to Favorites, and New Folder. Enter the name of the folder (ex: “Lesson Plans”) and click on OK. The default folder is now “Lesson Plans”. Click on OK and the site is now stored in “Lesson Plans”. To add other sites to “Lesson Plans”, just click on the “Lesson Plans” folder name when you add the site to your Favorites.

To revisit saved sites, click on Favorites, and click on the site name (or the folder and a site name within the folder.)

[Posted on April 26, 2005]