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Discussion in 'Computer Corner' started by roders, Oct 20, 2008.

  1. roders

    roders Total Gardener

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    :) Can someone tell me in plain English what are bookmarks and tags?
     
  2. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    yeah a book mark is a thing that you put in a book to mark the page.
    A tag is a thing you used at school to hold the pages in a folder.

    Any help mate.:D
     
  3. roders

    roders Total Gardener

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    :) There`was a clue Pete.................
    Computer Question :D
    Thanks for nothing :)
     
  4. FANCY

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    this bookmark and tag thingy does it mean you have to put a name to a topic or new post:scratch::(
     
  5. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    :dh: sorry roders just trying to be helpful.
    Keeping the post up, so to speak.:D
     
  6. terrier

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    If you 'bookmark' a thread, it's so you can find it easilly in future.
    A 'tag' is a word or phrase in a thread that you mark as a 'tag' so when searching for a subject, if you use that word, it will direct you to that subject.

    Does that sound feaseable ?

    If not then I havn't got a clue, I just use the bits of this forum I almost understand and ignore the rest. If there's no instruction as to how it works, then it can't be very important. :pcpunch:
     
  7. JWK

    JWK Gardener Staff Member

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    I use my favourites list to keep track of pages that I want to find again in the future, the difference with bookmarks is that they help other people to find the page you like (I can't explain why you'd want to do that on here) :cnfs:
     
  8. wiseowl

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    Hi Roder's If you go to F.A.Q.there is an answer in there Not sure if its in plain English:D
    But there,s definitely some kind of answer there:thumb::)
     
  9. Larkshall

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    Bookmarks (Firefox) = Favourites (Internet Explorer), are a way to save a website address to avoid having to type it all into the address line, very useful for long addresses.
     

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