Sharing Bookmarks

At times you may want to share your list of bookmarks with another person.  One way of doing this is to mail the list as an attachment to an E-Mail message.

First, see Creating a Personal Bookmark File
 

To E-Mail a List of Bookmarks:
 

• In Netscape click on BOOKMARKS and then on EDIT BOOKMARKS
• Click on FILE and SAVE AS and save the bookmarks file to the desktop.
• In your e-mail service enter the address, subject and the message.
• Click on ATTACH and select the file from your desktop and click on OK.
• Send the message.  The bookmarks file will be attached to the message.\
• See also: E-Mail Use.

• In Netscape click on BOOKMARKS and then on EDIT BOOKMARKS.
• Click on FILE and SAVE AS.  Save the bookmarks file to your desktop with a name like "mybookmarks.htm"
• Open Netscape Composer.
• In Composer, click on FILE and then OPEN.  Click on CHOOSE FILE.
• In the "Look in" dialogue box, choose DESKTOP.
• From the list of files, select your bookmarks file (mybookmarks.htm).
• In Composer, publish the file as you normally would.
• Check your url (it should be where the rest of your html files are, with the name you gave the file.  Example: http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/2000/develop/bookmarks/mybookmarks.htm)
• Now you can give someone the url to these bookmarks and they can use the links to go to any site you have bookmarked. (Example: Rene uploaded his bookmarks to http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/2000/develop/bookmarks/bookmark.htm.)

     Alternately you can use a free service like MyBookmarks.com to keep your Netscape Bookmarks, Internet Explorer Favorites, and AOL Favorite Places online so you can get to them from any computer.

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