How to Set My Blog or Forum as Your Homepage
If you know how to do this already, you can skip to the last paragraph if you wish. But I know for a fact that lots of people never change the homepage of their browser from the one set by default, and it's actually very easy to do.
If you're using Microsoft Internet Explorer, click on Tools in the main menu (normally at the top of the screen), then on Internet Options in the pop-up menu. In the new window that appears, click on the General tab if this isn't already at the front.
Lo and behold, at the top of the window you should see a box with the URL of your current homepage in it. Just type into this box http://www.mywritingblog.com or http://www.mywriterscircle.com (for my forum) and click on OK at the bottom of the window. The site in question will now become your homepage. Any time you start up Internet Explorer it will load, and likewise if you click on the 'Home' icon in the navigation toolbar.
If you use Firefox (which personally I prefer) as your browser, it's just as easy. In this case, click on Tools in the main menu as before, then on Options. In the new window that launches, click on the Main tab. Again, near the top you will see a Homepage box, in which you can enter the URL of your choice. All you need to do then is click on OK as before.
But what if you have another site that you want as your homepage? Or several? With Firefox, anyway, there's a great little add-on you can get (for free, of course) which effectively gives you any number of homepages. It's called Morning Coffee, and if you click here in Firefox you can download and install it. Morning Coffee lets you set two or more of your favourite pages, and any time you click on the Morning Coffee icon in Firefox (I'm sure you can guess what the icon looks like) all of your chosen sites will load, each on a separate tab. At a single click, therefore, you can launch my blog, my forum, and any of your other favourite sites, then visit them all in turn.
Happy browsing!
If you're using Microsoft Internet Explorer, click on Tools in the main menu (normally at the top of the screen), then on Internet Options in the pop-up menu. In the new window that appears, click on the General tab if this isn't already at the front.
Lo and behold, at the top of the window you should see a box with the URL of your current homepage in it. Just type into this box http://www.mywritingblog.com or http://www.mywriterscircle.com (for my forum) and click on OK at the bottom of the window. The site in question will now become your homepage. Any time you start up Internet Explorer it will load, and likewise if you click on the 'Home' icon in the navigation toolbar.
If you use Firefox (which personally I prefer) as your browser, it's just as easy. In this case, click on Tools in the main menu as before, then on Options. In the new window that launches, click on the Main tab. Again, near the top you will see a Homepage box, in which you can enter the URL of your choice. All you need to do then is click on OK as before.
But what if you have another site that you want as your homepage? Or several? With Firefox, anyway, there's a great little add-on you can get (for free, of course) which effectively gives you any number of homepages. It's called Morning Coffee, and if you click here in Firefox you can download and install it. Morning Coffee lets you set two or more of your favourite pages, and any time you click on the Morning Coffee icon in Firefox (I'm sure you can guess what the icon looks like) all of your chosen sites will load, each on a separate tab. At a single click, therefore, you can launch my blog, my forum, and any of your other favourite sites, then visit them all in turn.
Happy browsing!
Nick at 5:23 AM 
1 Comments:
I thought I would mention that you could do pretty much the same thing in IE7 without having to download an extension.
1. Select Favorites from the Tool Bar.
2. Select "Add Tab Group to Favorites"
3. Give the Tab Group a Name, ie Morning Coffee
4. Add sites to the Tab Group.
5. Open the Favorites from the Star on the left side of the tab bar
6. Select the Tab Group you want to open and click on the arrow to the right of the Tab Group's name and it will open each of the sites in that Tab Group in a seperate tab.
Quite handy.
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home