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How to bookmark Web pages
You've found a site. Even better, it's the site you meant to find! Congratulations! This site is everything you ever hoped it would be . . . and has all the information you need or has links to "related" sites you want to read. But you don't want to read everything now.
Now what? (Hmmm . . . it's sort of a "computerbook cliffhanger" isn't it?)
Bookmarking is the easiest way to return to a site over and over again. Just as you would slip a bookmark into a book to find your way back to the page you marked, you can do this online too. Each Web browser and online service has its own way to mark a site. (Come on, you didn't expect them to make this easy, did you?) They also call it different things. Netscape uses the term "bookmarking," but with Internet Explorer it is called "favorites." Whatever they call it, it works the same way.
Using Netscape Navigator as the example, you just click on the "Bookmarks" button on the toolbar at the top of your screen. Then place your mouse cursor on "Add bookmark" and click. That's it. The software saves the name and address of whatever page you are currently on to a list of bookmarks. Anytime you want to visit the sight again, just open your bookmark menu, scroll down to the site you want . . . and voila! No need to type in the address each time, and no need to remember what letters are upper case and which are lower!
Remember, though, that if you have a site on your bookmark list that you don't want others to see (and you don't have software to block that site), you might want to use this option sparingly or rename it something far less enticing than "Bouncy Babes in Bikinis." Something like "Accounting aspects of short form mergers" is likely to guarantee that no one will ever try to use that bookmark.