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Using Notepad If you don’t have Microsoft Word, you can just create your homepage in the program that every PC has – Notepad. I’ll just give you some code that you can copy and paste. You don’t need to know HTML coding to do this. You just have to be able to copy and paste HTML code into Notepad. From there, you just have to type in the names of the web sites and their URLs. Don’t let the HTML scare you, this is very, very simple. First, copy and paste all of the the following code into Notepad. <html> <a href="URL
OF ONE YOUR FAVORITE SITES" target="_blank">NAME
OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES</a> <a href="URL
OF ONE YOUR FAVORITE SITES" target="_blank">NAME
OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES</a> <a href="URL
OF ONE YOUR FAVORITE SITES" target="_blank">NAME
OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES</a> <a href="URL
OF ONE YOUR FAVORITE SITES" target="_blank">NAME
OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES</a> <a href="URL
OF ONE YOUR FAVORITE SITES" target="_blank">NAME
OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES</a> <a href="URL
OF ONE YOUR FAVORITE SITES" target="_blank">NAME
OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES</a> <a href="URL
OF ONE YOUR FAVORITE SITES" target="_blank">NAME
OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES</a> <a href="URL
OF ONE YOUR FAVORITE SITES" target="_blank">NAME
OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES</a> All that you have to do is enter (or copy and paste) the URLs of each one of your sites into the code by substituting your site’s URL with URL OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES. Be sure that you do not delete the quotes. Then, substitute NAME OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES with the name of each of the web sites (see example below). This is what will show up on the screen. You can name the site whatever you like. If you need more code to enter more web sites, just copy and paste as many of the following as you need immediately after the last <p> tag: <a
href=”URL OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES” target=”_blank”>NAME
OF ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE SITES</a> If you don’t have enough sites to fill up the code example I gave you, just delete the empty entries (starting with the <a href up to the <p>). Do not delete the ending center, body, and HTML tags. Note that this code makes each link open in a new window. That's what the target="_blank" in the code does. If you don't want the links to open in a new window, simply delete the target="_blank" for each link you create. Just be sure not to delete the > symbol after it.
When you are finished, go to File > Save As. Find a place on your computer where you will be able to find it. Name the file anything you want, BUT BE SURE TO GIVE IT THE FILE EXTENSION .html. For example, “homepage.html” (without the quotes). 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 Notepad, make your changes and save it. (You have to start Notepad first, then use File > Open. Otherwise the page will open in your browser.) Your page will automatically update when you start the browser. If it doesn’t, just refresh the page. If your homepage suddenly is changed to something else and you can’t change it back, you probably have acquired some spyware or adware on your system. You need to download Ad-Aware and/or Spybot Search and Destroy to kill it. You should probably also check out my article 7 Simple Ways to Protect Your Computer from Danger and Disaster.
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