Setting up your browsers Homepage

The homepage on your browser is the pager on the internet it automatically pulls up whenever you run your browser open a new browser window. The default setting for Netscape will take you to Netscape's homepage and the default setting for Internet Explorer will take you to Microsoft Network's homepage. As a 2 Fords customer it would be most desirable to have our main page as your homepage. John often posts important news about 2 Fords Network there; such as: any problems we may be currently having, scheduled maintenance that will mean one or more of our computers will be down for a short while, or any changes such as the new outgoing mail server mail2.2fords.net. Your browser will also pull up the homepage it is set to if you hit the homebutton on the toolbar.

Setups For:

Netscape Navigator 2.x, 3.x, 4.x

  Across the top of Netscape Navigator you will see the words:
FILE    EDIT    VIEW    GO   BOOKMARKS    OPTIONS   DIRECTORY   WINDOW    HELP

First click on OPTIONS, then on the popup window click on GENERAL PREFERENCES. 
When the general preferences window comes up it will be on the appearance window. At the bottom of this window you will see:
    BROWSER STARTS WITH:
( ) Blank page
(*) Home page location
Click on the homepage circle to select it and then type in the box next to it:

http://www.2fords.net
Press OK at the bottom of that window to except changes, then quit Netscape so that Netscape will save the changes. Otherwise if for any reason Netscape crashes you might not get your changes saved permenantly.

Netscape Communicator:

Across the top of your Communicator window you will see the words:
FILE    EDIT   VIEW   GO    COMMUNICATOR    HELP

First click on EDIT, then on the popup window the last item should be preferences. Select preferences to bring up the configuration window. You will then see the choices:

(+) APPEARENCE
(+) NAVIGATOR
(+) MAIL&NEWSGROUPS
(+) ROAMING ACCESS(this may or may not be on your version)
(+) COMPOSER
(+) OFFLINE
(+) ADVANCED

Click on the word NAVIGATOR not on the + sign. The right-hand side of the preferences window will change to  the navigator preferences. The first two sections are:


Navigator starts with
( )  Blank Page
(*) Home Page
( )  Last Page Visited

Home page

 Location   http://www.2fords.net


  Click on the home page button in the first section. This will have your browser automatically load your selected home page at startup. If you use blank page instead then Navigator will not load any page at startup, but the home button on your Navigator toolbar will open up your selected home page.
  In the Home page section you will see the word location followed by a long white bar. In this section type:
http://www.2fords.net

Press OK at the bottom of the preferences window and you are done.


Internet Explorer 5.0

The only real differences in the way the different versions of Internet Explorer are configured is how you get to the options or preferences window. The internet preferences window can be found under the words:
EDIT  VIEW  or  TOOLS

On the 5.0 version click on the word TOOLS and scroll down to the last choice INTERNET OPTIONS.

When the Options window comes up you will see a list of tabs across the top. You should already be on the GENERAL tab, if not then click on GENERAL.

On the General Options window the first  section is:

Home page

You can change which page to use for your homepage.
Address:         Http://www.2fords.net
Use Current   Use Default   Use Blank
Type in the box next to address:   Http://www.2fords.net
Then press the OK button at the bottom of the options window
If you want the home button on the browser window to work you have to have a homepage entered here. If you start up with a blank page, then the blank page will be your homepage.
 



 

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