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Using
Bookmarks Part II
Overview
In this part we will learn about more things you can do
with bookmarks. You will learn how to
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Add comments to your bookmarks to allow you to remember what
was useful or bad about them.
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Look at these comments in your browser.
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Divide up your bookmarks into a hierarchical system of folders,
so that instead of having dozens of bookmarks all mixed up, you
organize them using your own system.
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Finally, put bookmarks where you want them.
Now let's get going
1. Adding Comments
to a Bookmark
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Open the Bookmarks file.
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In Netscape Gold, choose Go to bookmarks in the
Bookmarks menu. In Netscape 4, click on the Bookmarks
button and choose Edit Bookmarks.
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This opens the bookmarks file in its own window, different
from the Browser window (which is still there behind it).
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If you don't have the bookmark file you want, choose another
one using the File menu. See Using Bookmarks
for how to do this.
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Open the Properties dialogue box.
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Right click on any bookmark you like and choose Properties.
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Add your comments in the space provided (labelled Description)
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You can also change the name of the bookmark if it is not
suitable.
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Close the Properties dialogue box by clicking on OK.
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Check the name and address of your bookmark file so you can
open it easily later.
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Click on File, then Save As. A dialogue
box will open, with the name of the file (something like Bookmarks.htm)
in blue as a default. You can work out the full
address (for example c:\Netscape\Users\bgill\Bookmarks.htm) by looking
at the hierarchy displayed.
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Note down the full address.
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Click on Cancel to dismiss the dialogue box.
2. Looking at
Bookmarks with their Comments
Normally, you look at bookmarks by clicking on the Bookmarks
menu or button. However, this does not allow you to see the comments
you may have added. There are two ways to see them. One is
to go into (open) the bookmarks file, choose a bookmark
and click on Properties (as we did above). This allows you
to see the annotations for a particular bookmark. The other
way, which allows you to see all the bookmarks and annotations
at once, is to look at them in your Browser. We'll go the Browser
route.
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Open the bookmark file in the Browser
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Make sure you are in the Netscape Browser, not in the Bookmark
window. If the Bookmark window is still open, dismiss it by clicking on
the little x top right.
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In Netscape 4, click on File, then Open Page.
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Click on Choose File
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Locate the bookmark file, using the name and address you
noted down before.
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When you have located it, click on as many OK's as necessary
to open it.
You now have your bookmarks on screen with the comments neatly
added after each one. Click on the bookmark you need to go there.
You can use the Back button to return to your previous page if you
wish.
3. Setting up folders in
the Bookmarks file
Setting up folders, and then cutting and pasting bookmarks
into them, is a fairly simple process.
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Open the Bookmarks file.
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In Netscape 4, click on the Bookmarks button and
choose Edit Bookmarks.
This opens the bookmarks file in its own window, different
from the Browser window (which is still there behind it).
If you don't have the bookmark file you want, choose
another one using the File menu. See Using
Bookmarks for how to do this.
Create a folder
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In either version of Netscape, select (single click) the
highest node in the hierarchy (the top entry, something like Bookmarks
for Brian Gill).
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Right click on this and choose New Folder (Netscape
4)
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Give your folder a name in the dialogue box that opens.
You don't need to add a description.
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Click on OK.
You now have a new folder. Repeat this process as many times
as necessary to create the folders you want. If you select the top
node each time, the folders you create will be directly under that node
in the hierarchy:
Bookmarks for BG
Français
Deutsch
Español
However, you can also make folders within folders, by
selecting an existing folder instead of the top node. So if you selected
Deutsch in the above hierarchy, then right clicked and selected
New Folder, and called it Jump Stations, you could create
a folder as follows:
Bookmarks for BG
Français
Deutsch
Jump Stations
Español
4. Putting
Bookmarks where you want them.
You can easily cut and paste the bookmarks you already
have, to organize them. And when you add a bookmark, you can put
it in the folder you want.
Cut and paste the bookmarks you already have to organize
them.
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Right click on a bookmark you want to move.
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Choose Cut.
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Right click on the folder you want to move it to.
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Choose Paste.
Repeat this as many times as necessary to organize all your
bookmarks.
Adding a bookmark directly into
the folder you want.
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In your browser, go to the site you want to bookmark.
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In Netscape 4:
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Click on the Bookmarks button.
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Choose File Bookmark.
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Move the cursor down to the Folder you want to file the bookmark
in and left click it.
In this way, assuming you'd just found Manfred Prokop's list
of German sites which won a Web page prize, you could put it in the
Jump Stations folder and your hierarchy would look like this:
Bookmarks for BG
Français
Deutsch
Jump Stations
Manfred Prokops Links to Resources in German
Español
If you are looking at this in paper form, you'll need
the url of Manfred's site: http://www.ualberta.ca/~german/Jump_Stations.html
Second Language Teaching
with the Web: ALLE Project
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