12-23-2003, 03:21 PM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]I have heard from a couple of you that you wish there was a way to easily go directly to the BFT-Utah general disscussion board without haveing to always go back to the BFT home page, then to Utah, then to General descussions every time.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]You can make it easy on yourself if you stick BFT-Utah up in your "Links".[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]To make it so that you can easily move from any Web screen directly into the BFT - Utah message board, here are the steps you need to do:[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]First, a little tutorial about the "Links" bar: Your Internet Explorer Web browser has a line up next to the tool bar buttons that is called the Address bar. The address bar has the http address of the current Web page you are currently looking at. That address bar shares a line called the "Links" bar. The links bar is just off to the right of the address bar. You can think of the links bar as the "Favorites of Favorites". The links bar just holds links to your most favorite sites so that you can get to your most frequently used sites without having to click and scroll down through your regular favorites menu. If you will notice, there is a tiny vertical bar just to the left of the word "Links". The presence of that little vertical bar indicates that this links bar can be stretched or shrunk simply by clicking on that little tiny vertical bar and dragging it left or right.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]If I remember right, the default "links" are all mostly Microsoft advertisement junk. I ALWAYS just remove the default links and replace them with links to sites that I most frequently visit … which are my credit union and BFT - Utah. To get rid of all the default crap links, simply right-click on the unwanted link and select Delete.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]You can also reposition the links within the link bar to suit your liking. To do that, simply left-click and drag and drop the link to a different position within the links bar.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Now that your are a little familiar with the links bar, here is how you get the BFT - Web site visible in the links bar: First login to [/size][/font][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/"][font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]www.bigfishtackle.com[/size][/font][/url][font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]. Then click on the link to the Utah board … then General Descussion. You are now exactly where you want to be. Now, up in the address bar, you see a tiny "[#0000ff]e[/#0000ff]" icon located just to the left of the Web address. Drag and drop that little icon over into your Links bar area. Once it is into your links bar area, you will notice that it's probably way long with lots of characters. I like to shorten my link names so they don't take up so much space. I shortened the name for my BFT site to be a simple "BFT-Utah". To shorten the name, just right-click on the link and select "Rename". That's all there is to it. Now, if I ever want to go directly to BFT-Utah (without having to log on), I just click on that "Link".[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Note: You don't have to log on every time if you don't log off when you leave BFT. There is one caveat to that though … If you ever clear or delete your cookies, you will have to log back on the next time.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Hope this helps. I know I like it.[/size][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]You can make it easy on yourself if you stick BFT-Utah up in your "Links".[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]To make it so that you can easily move from any Web screen directly into the BFT - Utah message board, here are the steps you need to do:[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]First, a little tutorial about the "Links" bar: Your Internet Explorer Web browser has a line up next to the tool bar buttons that is called the Address bar. The address bar has the http address of the current Web page you are currently looking at. That address bar shares a line called the "Links" bar. The links bar is just off to the right of the address bar. You can think of the links bar as the "Favorites of Favorites". The links bar just holds links to your most favorite sites so that you can get to your most frequently used sites without having to click and scroll down through your regular favorites menu. If you will notice, there is a tiny vertical bar just to the left of the word "Links". The presence of that little vertical bar indicates that this links bar can be stretched or shrunk simply by clicking on that little tiny vertical bar and dragging it left or right.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]If I remember right, the default "links" are all mostly Microsoft advertisement junk. I ALWAYS just remove the default links and replace them with links to sites that I most frequently visit … which are my credit union and BFT - Utah. To get rid of all the default crap links, simply right-click on the unwanted link and select Delete.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]You can also reposition the links within the link bar to suit your liking. To do that, simply left-click and drag and drop the link to a different position within the links bar.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Now that your are a little familiar with the links bar, here is how you get the BFT - Web site visible in the links bar: First login to [/size][/font][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/"][font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]www.bigfishtackle.com[/size][/font][/url][font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]. Then click on the link to the Utah board … then General Descussion. You are now exactly where you want to be. Now, up in the address bar, you see a tiny "[#0000ff]e[/#0000ff]" icon located just to the left of the Web address. Drag and drop that little icon over into your Links bar area. Once it is into your links bar area, you will notice that it's probably way long with lots of characters. I like to shorten my link names so they don't take up so much space. I shortened the name for my BFT site to be a simple "BFT-Utah". To shorten the name, just right-click on the link and select "Rename". That's all there is to it. Now, if I ever want to go directly to BFT-Utah (without having to log on), I just click on that "Link".[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Note: You don't have to log on every time if you don't log off when you leave BFT. There is one caveat to that though … If you ever clear or delete your cookies, you will have to log back on the next time.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2]Hope this helps. I know I like it.[/size][/font]
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