It is one thing to find useful resources on the web. It is entirely a different matter to find your way back to useful resources on the web. Before the arrival of web browsers, finding one’s way back to a file on a distant computer connected to the internet usually involved memorizing or recording a long, esoteric path name. Moving a file from a distant computer to your computer involved a complicated FTP (file transfer protocol) process that drove many early internet users to distraction. The web browser changed all of that.

The Bookmarks/Favorites feature found on all current web browsers makes it possible to easily "bookmark" a location on the web for future reference. Clicking on the bookmark/favorite is all that is required to return to the exact location of the desired webpage. Navigation on the web couldn’t be any easier.

However, if you are like most web users, your bookmarks/favorites can quickly become an unmanageable list that scrolls on forever, making it nearly as difficult to find your way back to that wonderful webpage as it was to find in the first place. Fortunately web browsers have some powerful editing features that make managing your web resources a relatively simple matter.

The web resources you bookmark will quickly degenerate into an disorganized mess unless you regularly edit them.

Specific directions for organizing your Bookmarks/Favorites are available in your web browser's Help files.

Firefox/Netscape/Mozilla: Click on the Help Menu and open the Help Contents. Use the Index or Search to find Bookmarks.

Internet Explorer: Click on the Help Menu and open the Contents and Index. Use the Index or Search to find Favorites.

Chrome: Help files are located on the Google web site at:
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/

Safari: Click on the Help menu. Select Safari Help. Search for Bookmarks.

AOL Web Browser: Click on the Help menu. Select Member Services Online Help. Click on Search Help. Type Favorites in the search box.

Exporting Bookmarks/Favorites: You can also export your Bookmarks/Favorites to save a backup copy, move them to a new computer or share them with colleagues. Check your web browser's Help files for specific details.

Note: The specific location of these help files sometimes changes from one version of the browser to the next. Searching the browser's Help files for the keywords bookmarks, favorites, organize and manage will usually take you right to specific instructions. You might want to print a copy of the instructions for future reference.

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