Explanation of Bookmarks?

Question

What are Bookmarks? What are they for? Where do they go? How does one get them and also how does one apply/ use them.
These are a lot of questions for one word but I need to know as well as understand.
As always please be Detailed in explaining to me how to apply/use them and what to use them for.
Your assistance in this matter will be Greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Internet bookmark:



Internet bookmarks are stored Web page locations (URLs) that can be retrieved. As a feature of all modern Internet web browsers, their primary purpose is to easily catalog and access web pages that a user has visited and chosen to save.[1] Saved links are called "favorites" in Internet Explorer, and by virtue of the browser's large[2] market share, the term favorite has been synonymous with bookmark since the early days of widely-distributed browsers.[3] Bookmarks are normally visible in a browser menu and stored on the user's computer, and commonly a folder metaphor is be used for organization. In addition to bookmarking methods within most browsers, many external applications exist for bookmark management.



Bookmarks have been incorporated in browsers since the Mosaic browser in 1993.[4] Bookmark lists were called Hotlists in Mosaic[5] and in previous versions of Opera; this term has faded from common use. Other early web browsers such as ViolaWWW and Cello also had bookmarking features.



Bookmarks are a fundamental feature of web browsers, but some users have expressed frustration with bookmark collections that become disorganized and have looked for other tools to help manage their links. These tools include browser synchronizers and desktop applications.



With the advent of social bookmarking, shared bookmarks have become a means for users sharing similar interests to pool web resources, or to store their bookmarks in such a way that they are not tied to one specific computer or browser. Web-based bookmarking services let users save bookmarks on a remote web server, accessible from anywhere.



Newer browsers have expanded the "bookmark" feature to include variations on the concept of saving links. Mozilla Firefox introduced live bookmarks in 2004,[7] which resemble standard bookmarks but contain a list of links to recent articles supplied by a news site or weblog, which is regularly updated via RSS feeds. Bookmarklets are small scripts stored as bookmarks that can be clicked to perform a function.



HTHs,



Ron

Answer 2

Bookmarking



Book marking means a method of saving and storing web pages in a single online location for future use or for sharing with other Internet users. Sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit provide social bookmarking.

We can find more bookmarking site by Google searching



How can do bookmarking into bookmarking site:



Step-1

At first select a site such as Digg then sign up or sign in here



Step -2

Click add link then copy our web page link and pest to submit a link To Digg box



Step -3

And then click submit

Answer 3

"Bookmarks" (Firefox) are the same thing as "Favorites" in Internet Explorer. Think of how you would use a real-world bookmark to mark what page you are on in a book so you can easily go back to it later. In the same way, bookmarks in the web browser allows you to tag a specific web page so you can go back to it easily without searching for it.



To create a bookmark, when you are on a web page, go to the Bookmarks menu > Bookmark this page. (In IE: Favorites > Add to Favorites.) You can organize your bookmarks to sort them to make them easier to find.



Once you've bookmarked a page, you can go to your Bookmarks menu and click on it to return to that exact page whenever you want.



You don't need to know where they go; the browser takes care of that for you. If you really want to know the technical explanation of where they are stored, it's different between Firefox and IE. For both, they are stored in your user account area.



For Firefox, all bookmarks are added as actual links to a single bookmarks file which is really just a regular HTML page.

For IE, each Favorite is stored as a separate Windows shortcut.



Hope that helps.

Answer 4

If you mean in the computing sense, which I presume due to the category, it is a way of saving a website to easily visit at a later date. If you add details of your browser I can explain how to use them (Browser examples are Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape or Firefox)

Answer 5

detail is not needed in this sense of the word, it is basically as it is describes itself, it could be any object that one would use to save their page when reading a book. Some would simply fold the page corner down to mark their place in the book they are reading. some use rulers, or other flat objects that would distinctly identify the last page of the book they were reading before stopping and taking a break.