You probably know how to add a page to your Favorites / Bookmarks. This is a great way to keep track of pages that you might want to revisit in the future.
Sometimes, though, there are webpages that you go to all the time. For me, those pages include the School Center login page and the Google Reader login page. For pages like this, I like to make shortcuts in places that are even easier to get to than my Bookmarks menu.
The key to easily making shortcuts is the icon next to the URL:
If you click on this icon and hold the mouse button, you can drag the cursor to several different places and automatically create a shortcut to the page you currently have open.
A piece of advice: be judicious in creating shortcuts like this. If you create too many, it can easily become disorganized and you'll lose the benefit of having them in the first place.
Sometimes, though, there are webpages that you go to all the time. For me, those pages include the School Center login page and the Google Reader login page. For pages like this, I like to make shortcuts in places that are even easier to get to than my Bookmarks menu.
The key to easily making shortcuts is the icon next to the URL:
If you click on this icon and hold the mouse button, you can drag the cursor to several different places and automatically create a shortcut to the page you currently have open.
- Make a shortcut on your web browser's "Links" toolbar by dragging the icon to a place on that toolbar (shown below).
- Make a shortcut on your desktop by dragging the icon to an open space on your desktop. If you double-click the icon, your computer will open the page in your web browser.
- Make a shortcut on your computer's "Quick Launch" bar by dragging the icon next to (not on top of) the other icons at the bottom left corner of your computer screen (shown below). Like the desktop shortcut, if you click this icon, a web browser window will open and automatically go to the page you made the shortcut from.
A piece of advice: be judicious in creating shortcuts like this. If you create too many, it can easily become disorganized and you'll lose the benefit of having them in the first place.