What's a Bookmark?
Browsers provide lists which serve as electronic bookmarks. These allow you to remember the address of useful web pages by adding them to your bookmark list. When you do this, the browser stores the title of the document and its URL. When you want to return to that marked web page, you simply select it from the bookmark list.
The way browsers handle bookmarks is somewhat dependent upon the particular browser but the basic principles are the same. The most important inconsistency is that Internet Explorer calls them Favorites. But a rose by any other name still works the same way. Just substitute the work Favorite for Bookmark if you are using Internet Explorer.
Creating a Bookmark
First, let's bookmark this page. Look up at the top of the screen for
the Bookmarks menu. Select Add Bookmark to add this page
to the list.
After creating the bookmark, return to the same menu and you will see this page's title on the bottom of the menu. Now you can return to this page from anywhere on the web, as long as you are using this browser on this computer.
Working with your Bookmark File
The bookmark file is extensively editable. You can move individual bookmarks around, organize them into subdirectories, and delete unwanted ones. Two important skills for our purposes are the ability to add comments to a bookmark and exporting bookmark files.
First, open the bookmark file by selecting
Edit Bookmarks from the same Bookmark menu pictured above. Internet
Explorer users need to select Organize Favorites.
Once open, you will see a window containing all of the directories and
bookmark files. You may manipulate them just as you would files on the
Finder.
Adding Comments
Adding comments to a bookmark helps remind you what is so good about that particular web page. Also, when you export your bookmarks (see below), the comments go with them and help you to construct your hotlist page. To add comments, select Get Info from the Edit menu and type in your text. (On Internet Explorer, the Get Info selection is in the File menu.
Exporting Your Bookmark File
As noted above, your bookmarks
are stored on the computer you are currently working on. To transport
these bookmarks, you need to export the file. With the bookmarks open,
select Save As from the File menu. Give the file a memorable
name, and be sure to use ".html" as a closing extension. This creates
an html document that contains all of the bookmarks on this computer.
Unfortunately, you can't select which bookmarks you want; this is a brute force operation. But later these extras can be selected and erased.
The added benefit of exporting the file is you create an HTML document that you have created a fully functional web page with all of your links. As you may have guessed, this gets you a long way towards completing your hotlist assignment.
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