Workshop 1: What is the Internet?

BOOKMARKS, BOOKMARKS, USING BOOKMARKS

If the Internet is a giant library with no card catalog.....
How can you find all that wonderful information?
and how can you find it again?

Bookmark - A page on the Netscape Browser that lists URLs or Web addresses. Bookmarks serve as links for easy access to Web addresses. MS Explorer’s equivalent is called Favorite Places.To bookmark a Web page on your screen, click Bookmark on the bar, and when it is displayed, click Add Bookmark. The link then adds to the bottom of the Bookmark Listing.

Bookmark files are specialized web files. They contain specific HTML (Hyper Text Markup language) that enable a browser to date the file, add bookmarks, change information and act as a part of the browser program.
Bookmark files can also be viewed as a web page and a good bookmark file can be the basis for a web site reference link list. Two good examples are the San Joaquin Region RCD Center and Natural Resources Job Search

Working with bookmarks is not complex, but it will make your internet time more effective if you will study the menu choices and bookmark options in your browser program.
Learn how to make folders and subfolders in your bookmarks, to change the properties of a bookmark, and other basics before you are working with important links. Don't lose your search work simply because you haven't examined how bookmarks operate in your browser.

Bookmarks and Favorites Tips:

Create folders on your hard drive to hold your Internet searches and bookmark sets
- You will find that you want to save web pages in addition to links. You'll need a place to file this information. If you don't know how to make folder on your computer's hard drive, start Windows Explorer and check your Windows 'Help' section.
Start organizing as you start bookmarking.
- Use the bookmark properties feature to take notes about the site for later reference. After all will you remember that CAFF is actually the California Alliance of Family Farms in 6 months?
Watch your bookmark file size.
Save a spare, clean default bookmark file in a separate folder
- preserve the original bookmark set which is the default file by making a new bookmark file under a new name. Use the new file as your working file (use save-as feature).
- Remember to open your newly created file and then proceed to add bookmarks.
- You can create and save bookmark sets under different names to seperate out your major work
- If your bookmark file exceeds 1MB in size, you may find that the Netscape Program won't open or start.
  - If this happens, try renaming your current working bookmark set. This forces netscape to revert to the default bookmark file - which should be small and clean.
  - After you get the program to open up, you can usually view your overly large bookmark file as a web page, but don't re-open it as a bookmark set once it has been corrupted

Need more help? A succinct overview on how to bookmark a web page is available online through CNN for Netscape and Explorer

**NACD Workshop 1: Introduction to The Internet**
**created by Cyber-Sierra**
Introduction	The Internet	Benefits	Why get Online
Search	Browsers	Bookmarks	Handling Email

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