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harness and make the best use of websites.
By way of
background the process of creating our website involved many visits to suitable
sites that could help us. We soon found it essential to save, organise and
print useful sites since it was impossible to think, study and learn whilst
online. You need time to gather your thoughts to decide on a course of action.
Our
salvation has been to utilise the favourites facility within Microsoft Internet
Explorer browser to store and put aside sites to read – print – or connect back
to when appropriate.
At
first when using the saving facility, we got into a real muddle. This stemmed
from continually saving files without storing them under suitable folder
subject headings. After a while, it’s impossible to find what you want when you
need it. Our golden tip is to group every file saved, each one at a time, under
a heading that you will recognise.
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avoid these problems and establish a beneficial routine, we have set out our
thoughts on this page to try and make the learning process as smooth as
possible. Utilise our illustrated systematic guide on how to save your
favourite websites.
We show
the contents of various tables in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 with guide
notes on how to save your favourite sites. If you haven’t got this browser, a
free copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer awaits you. To obtain it you need to
visit the Microsoft Internet Explorer website.
Our
approach is to systematically work through all aspects of the Add and Organise facility using all 4 page files of
our website as examples to illustrate how the procedure works. Our files are
saved and stored to a named subject folder that becomes available for you to
use offline. This technique can then be applied to your personal favourite
sites. Hope this all helps.
Understanding and using your
‘favourites’ facility
There
are 3 ways you can access the favourites facility in Microsoft Internet
Explorer 6. Either of these methods will bring
up your options that are either to Add or to Organise
favourites.
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Top Menu: File Edit View Favourites Tools * Help |
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Synchronise - see How to Add – Step3
In
basic terms, ‘files’ are documents and ‘folders’ are where you keep the various documents that come under
the same heading. We recommend you to save
files, each one at a time, under a suitable subject heading and store these in
named folders.
Elsewhere
on your PC in the hard drive you will be using files [letters/pages/graphics]
and storing them in named folders. Also a separate storage cabinet occurs in
say ‘Outlook Express’ where you will be using files [messages] that are also
stored in named folders [Inbox, Outbox, Sent, Draft, Others].
Saving
and storing websites works in a similar way in your Favourites facility. You can create a folder and
name it to describe/identify groups of website file pages that you are going to
save and store in this folder. Example
as this table:-
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Save our website files in this
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We are
going to explain how to create this folder and save our web pages in it for use
offline. This will enable you to:-
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1. Navigate throughout the whole
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2. Read each page gradually from the
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3. Print each page to read and
discuss with others. |
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4. Send a page to others by using
your Email. |
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How to Add to favourites
Using any
of these 3 ways select and press the ‘Add’ icon to bring up the following
table when online:-
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This facility
saves each web page as a file. Every file you save is named for you with the title given
to it by the website designer. For
instance the page you are reading now is saved with the name we have included
in the table above. Page titles have an important function on the internet and
should clearly convey the purpose of the page contents. Enter your own alternative file name if you
wish.
Firstly
create and name a folder to store our 4 web pages in. To do this press the New
Folder box and name the folder as about Financial Advice. With this folder selected you can save the files into it
starting with this page:-
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1. To action ‘Make available off line’ - select and click the check box provided. |
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To save
this page so that you can read and print offline – click the OK button. |
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3. Click from the drop down Tools menu To Synchronize with your connection. |
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4. Navigate to Home , About and
Contact page and save each into about Financial Advice. |
Select
and press the ‘Organise’ icon to bring up the following
table example. This displays how the folder and files should appear when saved
and organised. Click folder to inspect the files that you have stored in it :-
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To
create a new folder, click on the Create Folder button. To rename or delete
an item, select the item and click Rename or Delete.
To
move a file into a different folder, select the file then click on the Move
to folder button. From the list of existing folders, click the folder you
want to move the selected file to.
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In naming this Folder we used a brief descriptive heading - Financial Advice prefixed by the high order alphabet
word about. The resultant folder about Financial Advice can then be placed towards the top of your favourites
list.
To put
this into effect when saved, select and click Favourites from the top menu bar to reveal the full list. Place the
mouse pointer somewhere within the list borders and right click to bring up a
drop down menu. Select and press Sort by Name. This
will then move the about
Financial Advice
folder towards the top of the list.
Supposing
your most popular folder was Wikipedia – renaming it to a Wikipedia would place it at top of list using the Sort by Name feature.
When any of your saved synchronised favourite files have been updated, you can re