| A bookmark is a saved link to a web page that has been added
to a list of saved links when using a browser. When you are looking at a particular
Web site or home page and want to be able to quickly get back to it later,
you can create a bookmark for it. You could think of your browser as a book
full of web pages and your bookmarks as the sections you want to "reread" again.
The list that contains your bookmarks is the "bookmark list" ( sometimes called "hotlist.").
Netscape and some other browsers use the bookmark idea. Microsoft's Internet
Explorer and AOL uses the term "favorites." When you are on a computer other than your own, have you:  Racked
your brain for a site you bookmarked on another computer? Scribbled
down a URL while working at a public access computer? Tried
to memorize a URL to come back to later? Had
your computer crashed and you lose your bookmarks? Unfortunately bookmarks reside on the computer's hard disk,
so they don't follow you when you switch computers. Here are three suggestions
for when you are not on your main computer. Locating your bookmarks/favorites
on your hard drive is the first step. If you have problems locating your bookmarks
file click on the browser you use: Netscape, Microsoft
Internet Explorer, an AOL paths:
Keep a print out of your bookmarks: Unfortunately
you can not just print out bookmarks or favorites file and have them with
their URLs. You have to create a separate document to provide the name of
a page and its URL in a logical manner. URLs
can be extremely long and complicated, so sometimes difficult to type in correctly.
You
still have to scribble down URLs you want when away from your main
computer.
Keep a back-up disc of your bookmarks: Simple
to make and update. Just right click on the bookmark/favorites file and send
to disc.
Disc
saves bookmarks in html format so you can open the file in a browser.
Two
bookmark back-up discs are a good idea. One disc can travel with you
from computer to computer, and the other should be stored in a safe
place in case of your main computer crashing, or your other bookmark
disc getting corrupted.
New
bookmarks/favorites can be easily added to the disc and later transferred
to main computer's bookmark file..
Discs
can carry and/or contract viruses. Online Bookmarks: Bookmark/Favorites
files are already in .html or .htm format. Bookmarks
are always available to you online. You don't have to remember to take a printout
or a disc with you. Bookmarks
online are easy for you to share with others. It
may be difficult to add new bookmarks/favorites when not using main computer. Online
bookmarks may not be secure. You
might have invested a lot of time and consideration into choosing your bookmarks
for classes you teach, and would rather not have them in the public domain.
Robots may collect your site to add to their database.
Free Internet Bookmark posting services: MyBookmarks™
www.mybookmarks.com/ PowerSearch.com™
favorites.powersearch.com/html/default.asp [Editor's Note - was not
active in February 2003] BookmarkPlus
www.BookmarksPlus.com/ [Editor's Note - was not active in summer of 2002] |
