Bookmarks on Netscape
Netscape finds its way Back to a page that you have visited
by recording the URL and title of each new page you come to. Netscape
records only the last ten pages until you quit. Once you quit, this
short-term memory (the last 10 pages visited) is lost and there may be pages
you wish to return to, but do not remember the URLs. Don't despair, there's
hope for those of us who want to store the location of a Web page for
frequent return trips to select pages. A Netscape tool that can store page
locations (URLs) permanently is Bookmarks.
Bookmarks perform a similar function to real bookmarks in a book. Real
bookmarks let you easily find a page later that you've found already. In
Netscape, bookmarks let you find a Web page later that you've already been
to.
Let's create or Add a bookmark to the list. First,
open this location:
http://www.srv.net/people/vandal/xfilestext.html
As soon as the item begins to load onto your desktop you can click on
Bookmarks (on the topmost bar) and select
the menu item Add Bookmark to add this item to your
list of bookmarks. If you prefer, you may
use the function keys on a Mac to add the bookmark (Apple key and D).
The page your are on is now stored in the list of bookmarks. You can look
at this list by selecting Bookmarks again. The bottom
portion of the Bookmarks menu is the list of your bookmarks. Now, just click
on the bookmark you wish to return to and voila! you'll be there in
seconds, without having to give a second thought to the URL.
Exercise:
Go to the following URLs and add them
twice to your bookmark list:
1. http://nic2.hawaii.net/uhlib2
2.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/uhlib/train/train.html
Editing and Organizing Bookmarks:
If you surf the net, you are bound
to come across several sites that you wish to add to your bookmarks list.
It is not hard to imagine how quickly your bookmarks can become
unmanageable. No fear, Netscape has the capability to do complete
database-style management with bookmarks.
Choose Window from the topmost bar, then select
Bookmarks from the menu bar. Now you see a half screen
view of the bookmark list editor, and the topmost bar will be
different. The most useful parts in this bar are Edit and
Item.
To delete a bookmark. Use
your mouse to click on the name of the bookmark on the left side of the
window. Then click on Edit from the bar and
select Delete bookmark from the menu.
Exercise:
1.
Delete the duplicate bookmarks you made in the first exercise.
To move a bookmark to a
different spot on the list. Use your mouse to click on the bookmark.
Then simply drag the bookmark to the position you want it to display
at.
To make a new bookmark from a URL that you know.
Click on Item from the bar and select Insert
Bookmark from the menu. A dialog box will appear, fill in the
Name and Location (URL) fields as precisely as possible.
While you are organizing and creating your bookmarks the editor also
allows you to make folders for collections of bookmarks. To add a
Folder to your list of bookmarks, use the mouse to select
Item from the bar, then select Insert
Folder and a dialog box will appear. Enter the information in
the Name
To insert a horizontal line between headings
on a list, use the mouse to select the bookmark that should be
before the line. Then click on the New Separator
from the Item menu and a horizontal line will appear.
Exercise:
1. Make the following new folders for
your bookmarks:
Internet
Training |
and |
Libraries |
2. Now place the UH Library Bookmark in the folder
Libraries, and place the Training Bookmark in the folder
Training.
More on
Bookmarks Copying bookmarks to a floppy
disk:
This feature allows you to carry your bookmarks from
station to station, and share your bookmarks with others. All bookmarks
are stored in a file named Bookmark.html. This file is located on your
hard disk in the same directory as Netscape. This file is an HTML Web
document that can be displayed with any Web browser, and
is not limited only to Netscape. Once you have located the
Bookmark.html file on your hard disk simply copy it to the floppy. Once
you have copied the bookmark file you can do two things with it:
- Display/View the File:
- To
view the file, choose File and then Open
File from the menu bar. Then use the dialog box to choose the
file and click on the OK button. The file then appears
on-screen as if you loaded it from the Internet. Even though the file
isnŐt a real Web page from the Internet, you can select a hotlink and have
it take you to the places on the Internet selected from your
bookmark.
- Add the bookmarks to another
list:
- Go to File and select Import
Bookmarks from the menu bar.
A File dialog box will appear, choose the Bookmark.html file click on the
OK button. Netscape will automatically get all the
hotlinks out of the file, and put them in your list of bookmarks,
appending them to the end of the existing list.
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