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| Home > Help & How To > How to Create Your Own Homepage with Links > Page 1
When you open your web browser what do you see? You might see your favorite web site, the default MSN.com, or maybe some adware hijacked your homepage and you see a site you never want to go to. When I open my browser, I see a page that has links to the sites I most frequently visit, and that’s it. It loads super-fast and the site is never down. How do I do this? I’ll show you how. It is very easy to create your very own homepage with links. There are many ways to do this, but I’ll show you two of the easiest. If you have a recent version of Microsoft Word, you can use that. If not, I’ll give you some HTML code that you can copy into NotePad. Using Microsoft Word Word makes it extremely easy to create a web page that has your favorite links on it. Start by entering the names of your favorite web sites. Enter their names as you would like them to appear on the screen, not their URLs. You can enter the names however you want. Feel free to center them, put them in a list, in multiple columns, etc. You can place the links however you like. After you have your links placed, you now have to enter the destination the links go to when you click on them. You do this by highlighting each web site name you entered, right-clicking and selecting Hyperlink. On the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, you’ll see that the text you highlighted is already entered into the Text to display field. All you have to do is enter the web site’s URL in the Address field. Be sure to enter the entire URL, including the http://. If you have Word XP (Word 2002), there is an option to make the links open in a new window. To do this in Word XP, click the Target Frame button and select New window from the drop-down menu. Also check the box next to Set as default for all hyperlinks. If you don't have Word XP and you want your links to open in a new window, try using the alternative method I describe below. Click OK on the Insert hyperlink dialog box and the web site name you had selected becomes a link. Do this for each link. When you are done making each web site name into a link, you can then format the links however you would like. You can change their color, typeface, italicize, bold, anything. When you are done, go to File > Save as web page. Save the file somewhere on your computer where you can find it later. I’d recommend My Documents. Give it a name like “homepage” or “startpage”. Open up your web browser (hopefully you’re using Slimbrowser by now). Go to File > Open and then click Browse. Navigate to where you saved your file, click Open, and then click OK. The homepage that you created should now be on the screen. Test all of your links to make sure that they work. When you are done, go to Tools > Internet options in your browser. On the General tab, click the Use Current button to set the page you created as your homepage. That’s all there is to it! If you ever want
to make changes to your page, just open it up in Word, make your changes
and save it. Your page will automatically update when you start the browser.
(If it doesn’t, just refresh the page). |
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