introduction
abelard’s homepage for you
setting your browser to use abelard’s
homepage as your homepage
modifying abelard’s home page
saving abelard’s homepage to your
computer
useful Firefox add-ons for net
browsing
The Internet is a wonderful place to visit and to
explore.
After exploring the net for a while, there are places (web sites) that
you visit regularly, and there are places that you visit for specific
purposes - to find particular information, or read news, or even just
to have some fun and relaxation.
One means of organising your favourite and most visited web site links
is by arranging them on an html-coded page that you use as your web browser
homepage. The homepage is the page that shows when you first open your
browser, and you can change this from the default page provided when the
browser was first installed.
abelard’s homepage
for you
This link
takes you to an adapted version of the home page that abelard
uses.
If you want to make this linked page into your home page, here follow
instructions for several popular browsers.
setting your browser
to use abelard’s homepage as your homepage
- Mozilla
Firefox:
- With abelard’s homepage showing in Firefox,
- Set the browser with the Use current pages button
at Tools menu | Options | Main tab.
- You can also drag the small abelard’s yak icon
in the address box and drop it on the home/house button on the navigation
bar.
- MS Internet Explorer:
- With abelard’s homepage showing in Internet
Explorer,
- Set the browser with the Current page button
at Tools menu | Internet Options | General Tab | Startup page box.
- You can also drag the small abelard’s yak icon
in the address box and drop it on the home/house button on the navigation
bar.
- Opera:
- With abelard’s homepage showing in Opera,
- Set the browser with the Use current button
at Tools menu | Preferences | General tab | Startup | Start with
home page
- Safari:
- With abelard’s homepage showing in Safari,
- Set the browser with the Set to current page
button
at Edit menu | Preferences | General tab
As we update the page with new links, or remove now dead ones, you
can receive a new version when you are on-line. You can check whether
you have the most up-to-date version by looking at the bottom of the
abelard homepage. There is the ‘Last updated’
date. (Hit the browser Refresh button to make sure that you do have
the latest available version.)
modifying abelard’s
home page
- If you cannot adjust to abelard’s preference of cheerful colours,
there are directions on changing the colours your browser will display
at customising your browser.
- If you wish to be able to modify and add new links to this page yourself,
you will need to save the page
on your computer, set it as
the homepage for your browser as explained just above, and then, when
you wish, modify the saved page.
Note that now you will be using this saved, and possibly modified, version
of the homepage as your browser’s homepage, not the version hosted
at abelard.org.
To modify the saved page and to add your own links, you have to use
editing software. If you are fairly fluent with coding, you would use
a text editor like Notepad or Textpad. If you are not, you could use
a WYSIWYG editor [What You See Is What You Get] . A free and reliable
WYSIWYG editor is HTMLKit.
This
is a page of tutorial links for HTMLKit.
saving abelard’s homepage
to your computer
Click on the File menu at the top of your net browser
so that its menu drops down. Choose the Save as option.
This way you can save the page to a file location of your choice.
useful Firefox add-ons for net browsing
- Morning
Coffee - Keeps track of daily routine websites and opens them in
tabs.
This add-on saves a lot of time opening pages
used routinely and often.
- Cooliris
Preview - Preview web links, images, and videos without clicking.
Hover on a link and a floating version of the
page appears. Saves on opening tabs when you are not sure whether you
want to go to the linked page.
- Tab
Catalog - This add-on shows contents of all of tabs as a thumbnail-style
table.
Useful to see what’s in all your tabs
at the same time.
- Colorful
Tabs - Colors every tab in a different color.
A great help to escaping the drab anonymity
of corporate design.
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