Changing your home page
Here's a shortcut to your favorite site. Your browser (the window you're staring
at right now) always opens to what's called your "default home page". The party
poopers over at Netscape and Microsoft design browsers to open to
their humdrum corporate home pages (sheesh!). But you can fix that
in a snap!
(Hint: You might want to print this page first.)
Using Netscape
1. Find the Menu Bar that runs across the top of the Netscape
window.
2. Under the "Options Menu", select "General Preferences". A
dialog box with several options will come up: "Browser Starts With" is
the
one you're after.
3. The URL currently in the "Home Page Location" box --
http://home.netscape.com -- is the Netscape home page. Enter the URL of
your favorite web site (mine is http://www.bguide.com).
Click the OK button to save your change and exit Preferences. That's all
there is to it!
Using Microsoft Internet Explorer
1. Access the site that you want to use for your new home page (for
example Beatrice's Web Guide at http://www.bguide.com).
2. Go to the Internet Explorer View menu at the top of the window,
and choose "Options".
3. In the Navigation dialog box, choose the "Start Page".
4. Look for the "Address" text box.
5. Click on the "Use Current" button
and the URL will appear in the "Address" box.
6. Click OK, and you're done!
Psst... If you're looking for a more serious browser makeover, check out
your font options, font sizes and link colors. Experiment. Browsers don't
break, and you can undo anything.

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