When you were a kid a "bookmark" meant a piece of paper stuck in a book to mark the page and a "favorite" was your most-liked flavor of ice cream. In today's computer world, these two words have taken on new meaning and become very useful.

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We are creatures of habit, and as such we tend to do the same things over and over again. This is very true of using the Internet. We find websites that we like and want to visit them over and over again. Today's Web browsers make that easy. Internet Explorer  lets you save Web pages as "Favorites".  Firefox, another popular browser, calls them "Bookmarks". You can use the Favorite or Bookmark feature to save the Web pages you like and keep them in an easy-to-access list so that you can quickly revisit them without having to remember the long URL address.

The method of saving a Web page is similar in most browsers. To save the address of a page, go to the Web page you want to save and then choose Bookmarks or Favorites from the menu or click on the Bookmark or Favorite icon and choose Add or Bookmark This Page.  In Internet Explorer 7 there are two separate icons for Favorites. The yellow star will bring up a Favorites Center where you can view your Favorites. The yellow star with the green plus will let you easily add a Favorite.

TIP: If you are using Internet Explorer 7 and you don't see a menu you can turn it on by pressing the Alt key. To keep it on all the time, right-click on the toolbar at the top of the screen (it will have the yellow star on the far left) and put a check mark in front of the words Menu Bar.

When you want to access the Web page you just marked, you simply click on the Favorite or Bookmark menu item or icon, scroll down to the name of the page, and double-click to open that page.

When you are creating Favorites or Bookmarks, look around these areas and you will see many different things that you can do with these web page shortcuts:

• You can give each bookmark a name of your choosing

• You can create folders to store your bookmarks so that you can keep like items together to make them easier to find.

• You can move, rename, and organize bookmarks that you have already created

One caveat, bookmarks and favorites are like rabbits, they seem to proliferate quickly. So every now and then you will want to delete some of those you no longer find valuable. You can do that in the Organize Favorites or Organize Bookmarks area of each browser. You can also delete favorites or bookmarks on the fly. Instead of double-clicking to open the favorite or bookmark, you can simply right-click and choose Delete from the menu that pops up.

SPECIAL NOTE:

In the coming weeks we are adding a special feature to the Compu-KISS Newsletter. In each edition I will present articles that have been big favorites of our visitors or new articles that you will want to refer back to.

So to get ready for the new launch you can start by creating a folder in your Bookmarks or Favorites called Sandy's Favorites.

If you are using Internet Explorer 7, just click on  Add a Favorite. When the Add a Favorite window appears, click on New Folder. Type in "Sandy's Favorites". Click the Create button. Then click Add and the Web page will be added to a folder called Sandy's Favorites.

If you are using Firefox, Click on Bookmarks from the menu, then choose Add Bookmark. Click on the New Folder button. Type Sandy's Favorites in the Name area, then click OK. Click OK again and this page will be added to the Sandy's Favorite folder.

After you have created your Sandy's Favorites folder, just surf to any page on the Compu-KISS website and add it to  the Sandy's Favorites folder in your bookmarks or favorites.