Promote: Browser Bookmarks
A great way to get return visits to your web site is to encourage book marking. A bookmark is used to save the URL of a web page that you visit often. Bookmarks are also referred to as favorites in some browsers. When a web page is bookmarked the browser saves the page's address. Then all that is needed to return to the site is a click on the browser's bookmark. Here are some examples of how to describe bookmarking to your site:
How to Add a Bookmark/Favorite
Bookmarking in Netscape Navigator:
- Bring your cursor (the graphic that moves on the screen with your mouse) to the top of your browser window or top of the screen.
- Click on the menu option labeled "Bookmarks."
- Move the cursor down and select "Add Bookmark."
To view your Bookmarks, click on the "Bookmark" option again, and move your cursor down. You should see an item in the list containing the name of the page you bookmarked.
Favorites in Microsoft Internet Explorer:
- Bring your cursor (the graphic that moves on the screen with your mouse) to the top of your browser window or the top of the screen.
- Click on the menu option labeled "Favorites."
- Move the cursor down and select "Add to Favorites."
To view your Favorites, click on the "Favorites" menu option again, and move your cursor down. You should see an item in the list containing the name of the page you bookmarked.
Additional Bookmarking Support
For even more presence there is an additional feature that you can utilize in current versions of browsers. When some browsers visit a web site, they look for a default icon associated with the site. This default icon is a 16 x 16 pixel image. The icon is normally named favicon.ico and is generally located in the web servers root directory. You may not have access to the web server's root directory but you can still have a custom icon for your own site.
Create your icon, containing a 16 x 16 pixel size image, using any icon editing software and save it in your site directory somewhere. You can have other resolutions within the icon file but the 16 x 16 size is required. Now add a link reference to this icon in the <head> of each of your pages. The following is an example of this link for this site's icon:
| <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="http://www.melvinwallerjr.com/favicon.ico"> |
(Remember to use the FULL path to the icon file!)
