Internet Browsing Tip - Access Favorite Sites Quicker/Easier

If you are like me, you have some web sites you check daily, and even multiple times each day, you'd like a quick way to get to it without having to type in the web site address. Here's a way to do that!
Today's web browsers (Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla's Firefox) have a toolbar that you can have display up near the top of the browser window which you can put the sites you want to look at frequently. Here's how you set them up.

For Internet Explorer (IE) users:








To set up Browser with "Links" showing at the top:

• Go to "Tools" at the top of the IE Browser window and select "Toolbars"
• Select "Links"
• This will add a line at the top of your Browser window (it will say "Links" on the LH side)

To use "Links" to list your favorite sites:

• Open up the site you want to add in your Browser
• Go to the little icon to the left of the web site address listed in the address bar at the top of the Browser (move your mouse pointer over the icon)
• Hold down your LEFT mouse button, and "drag" the icon down to the "Links" line and release the LEFT mouse button (you will see a little "folder with an arrow" as you drag it
• You should now see the name of the web site showing in the "Links" line

Now, every time you open your browser, this link will appear in the "Links" line. To access that site, just "click" on that icon/web site name in "Links" line.
Do this with as many sites as you want.. they will line up across the top of the Browser in the "Links" line, and you can click on any one of them at any time to open them.

For Mozilla Firefox users:
To set up Browser with "Bookmarks" showing at the top:

• Go to "View" at the top of the Firefox Browser window and select "Toolbars"
• Select "Bookmarks"
• This will add a line at the top of your Browser window.
  

To use "Bookmarks" to list your favorite sites:

• Open up the site you want to add in your Browser
• Go to the little icon to the left of the web site address listed in the address bar at the top of the Browser (move your mouse pointer over the icon)
• Hold down your LEFT mouse button, and "drag" the icon down to the "Bookmarks" line & release the LEFT mouse button (you will see a little "folder" as you drag it
• You should now see the name of the web site showing in the "Links" line

Now, every time you open your browser, this link will appear in the "Links" line, and to access that site, just "click" on that icon/web site name in "Links" line
Do this with as many sites as you want.. they will line up across the top of the Browser in the "Links" line, and you can click on any one of them at any time to open them.

Special Tip: You can change the name of these links at the top of the browser ("Links" or "Bookmarks") so they are shorter (allows you to see more of your favorites). Do the following to rename:

• Move your mouse cursor over the name, and click on your RIGHT mouse button
• In the window that opens up, select "Rename" (for IE Browsers) or "Properties" (for Mozilla Firefox)
• In the window that opens, type in the name you want to show, and hit "OK"

Now you have your favorites showing all the time, and can go to them by simply clicking on the one you want to go to - no typing of web site address, no going to bookmarks section in your Browser!