Bookmark or Favorite
add
view bookmarks
new divider
move item
remove item
exportOpen File
Open Location
Save As Text/Source (view HTML)
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Several other techniques can add to your "viewing pleasure" on the web. The first of these is the use of Bookmarks. It is usually difficult to remember the exact path you followed to get to a particular site. Or one of the intermediate pages you used has changed. By using Bookmarks, the program will store the exact URL for a page and allow you to directly access the page at a later time. When you are looking at a page that you want to add to your Bookmark list, you can choose Add Bookmark from the Bookmark menu. This will add the title of the page to the bottom of the Bookmark menu. At any later time, you may choose the title from the menu and go directly to the marked page.
There are several ways you can manipulate the list of bookmarks in the menu. They all begin by choosing View Bookmarks in the Bookmarks menu. You can click on the name of a Bookmark and then click on the New Divider button. This creates a dividing line below the name you had clicked on. When you click on a bookmark, its name appears in a text box on the middle right of the window. You can type in the text box to change the name that appears for that bookmark in the menu. You can also change the Location (URL) of the bookmark, but this is usually not a good idea. The program will also show you the last time you visited a bookmarked site and when you added the bookmark to the menu.
You can click on the name of a bookmark on the left and use the up or down arrows on the lower left to move the name up or down in the bookmark list. After clicking on the name of a bookmark, you can click on the Remove Item button. This removes the bookmark from the menu.
The Export button is a very nice feature to use when your bookmark list is getting too long to view on the menu. This button exports the bookmark list to an HTML text file. Then you can use the Open File feature to view and click on the bookmarks in this new list.
You can choose Open File from the File menu to have Netscape open a text file (that is in HTML) so you can view it on the screen. For this lecture, I have been using Netscape to show you HTML pages. However, I have been showing them in this local mode. This method opens the pages quicker and lets me be less dependent on the availability of the network. It is also the way that I constructed these pages. I will be discussing this method in the second lecture.
Let's say you are reading an article and there is a URL or address of a page on the net listed (begins with http://). You can choose Open Location from the File menu and type in the URL. Then Netscape will connect to that page on the Internet. Hint: You can save some time by NOT typing in the http://. Most browsers will automatically add it for you.
You can use the Print item on the File menu if you are on a computer connected to a printer. So you can copy text off the screen by clicking and dragging and save it in a word processor file. Or you can use the Save As item in the File menu to save it as a text file on your floppy disk. Then the next time you are in COB 006, you can open and print that page (minus the pictures).
If you are interested in the commands that are used to put a page on the screen, you can use the Save As item in the File menu to save it as Source. Then you can open the file in a word processor to see what the HTML commands look like. We will use this technique when constructing our own home pages in Lecture 2. An alternative method is to choose the Source item in the View menu. This will copy the HTML file to the local disk and open it up in a text editor.
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