These directions are for a PC and Netscape.  If you are using a MAC, go to this link.
 
 
 

When you are "surfing the web" for research or personal use, you may want to collect some urls of interesting websites, with some notes about them.

If you are looking at an interesting website, you can go to BOOKMARKS (on the menu at the top of your screen) , and  choose ADD CURRENT PAGE or ADD BOOKMARK (This may be slightly different on different versions of Netscape) from the pull-down menu.
If this is your home computer, this is convenient because you can go back to this BOOKMARK on the bookmark pull-down menu  at the top of your screen.

If you are not on your home computer, or if you want to create a hotlist of websites for a project you are working on, you can follow these directions.

1.  Create a bookmark using the directions above.
2.  Go back to BOOKMARKS at the top of your screen and choose MANAGE or EDIT BOOKMARKS.  A long list of bookmarks will appear on your screen.  The most recent bookmarks will be at the bottom of that list.

3.  If you want to write a description or notes about this bookmark, HIGHLIGHT the bookmark.

4. Right click.

5. Choose PROPERTIES or BOOKMARK PROPERTIES.

6.  In the box marked DESCRIPTION, you can type anything you want about this bookmark.

7. Go to FILE  on the menu bar at the top of your screen. (IMPORTANT:  You must still be in MANAGE or EDIT BOOKMARKS.) Save ALL OF YOUR BOOKMARKS on your floppy disk (or wherever you want if you're on your home computer.  You can not save only some of the bookmarks at this point.

8.  By finishing Step 7, you will have created a new document.  Open this new document. HIGHLIGHT and COPY only the bookmarks that you want, PASTE them onto a new MS Word document, and you will have something that looks like this. Name your document, and add anything that you want to it.
Note:  What you will see is a live link of the name of the website and the description you wrote.  It is often useful to copy the url under the name of the website.  There are simple ways to cut and paste the url onto your hotlist.

For more ideas about creating your own Hotlist,go to this link.