There are millions of websites on the Internet and more are being made. We use search engines to navigate around this labyrinth. We'll probably browse through several sites in a day and use the information or service we find according to our needs. At the most we can remember several of the addresses and names but we can't recall the URL's of every visited site. Internet Explorer is the web browser that comes with a Windows installation and it helps users retain important sources of information or services through its Favorites menu. This is where users can save the location of websites so that they can quickly re-visit them.
- Navigate to the website. To save a website's location you naturally have to find it first. Pull up any of the popular search engines like Yahoo! or Google on Internet Explorer. Type in the keyword or group of keywords, scroll through the results, and click on the link to the site to get there. A website is often made up of several pages. There are sites whose content is generally useful and interesting and there are those that aren't really helpful except for one or two pages in them. It's really up to you if you want to store the location of the site's homepage and just navigate from there, or store a specific webpage so you can directly reach the information or service.
- Save the website on the Favorites menu. With the website displayed on Internet Explorer, click on the Favorites menu, and then click on the "Add to Favorites..." option. Its dialog box will appear showing the site's name and in what folder on the menu it will be stored. Click on the OK button and the website will be added to the Favorites menu. To revisit the site the next time you open Internet Explorer, just pull out the menu again. The site's name will be displayed on the list. Click on the site's name and the browser will take you there.
- Organize the Favorites menu. As you keep adding and storing websites on the Favorites menu, the list gets longer and pretty soon the menu becomes cluttered. One way to keep it neat is to group similar sites in folders. Click on the Organize Favorites option on the menu. This will bring up its dialog box which will list all the stored websites. You can add folders by clicking on the New Folder button. A new folder will appear on the list and you can give it an appropriate label. Drag and drop websites on the list into the folders you created. When you're through grouping the sites, click on the Close button. This time when you expand the Favorites menu, you'll see the new folders. Hover the mouse on these folders to display the websites you placed in them.
"Favorites" is the particular name used by Internet Explorer. However, the function of saving websites is not exclusive to this browser. It's a standard function for all web browsers although the others may use a different name. On Mozilla Firefox for example, it's called the Bookmarks menu and it works exactly the same.
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