Understanding Internet Explorer 8 - #8 - Favorites in Internet Explorer 8

In Internet Explorer 8 the Favorites bar is much more versatile and intuitive than in previous versions of IE. It can serve as the home for Web Slices, RSS Feeds, as well as your Favorite Web sites.

Hi, this is Michael Callahan “Doctor File Finder” and welcome to part eight of our special Butterscotch.com ten-part series on Internet Explorer 8. Now in this segment I'm going to take a quick look at the improved favorite functions on Internet Explorer 8. They have it running across here. The favorites bar and see whether browsers like Firefox is called the bookmark bar. But this favorite bar is vastly improved. In the earlier segment you saw that we could put web slices here, right and see there's an update in traffic for Gallatin and Tennessee. You can click on the favorite here and see what you’ve got feeds, favorites and history. You can also take and do a quick add so for example, let say we want to add Butterscotch.com as a favorite, a wise choice. Just click right here on this little star that’s got the green arrow on it. Add the favorite bar, click and there it is added to our favorites. Another thing you can do is add it an RSS feed so we’ll click on the RSS feeds link, go here and say I want to see all the episodes of the A-List with Amber Mac. I click right here on the little star with the green plus button. Ask me if I want to subscribe, I subscribe and now if we look in our favorite list under feeds there it is the A-List. So we can have these things in our favorites. There's also by default a suggested sites button that brings up sites based on what you’ve been looking at recently. I've been looking by site pertaining to Tennessee so there are some suggestions there. If you’re in the favorite bar and you right click you can go down here. You can customize the wiz so that for example I can do icons only which gives me a lot more room, so as long as you know what the icons stands for you're doing okay or you can have short titles rather than long titles, here's the traffic, here's weather, Butterscotch, suggestion. You can also click here and you can refresh all of them, you can delete. So this is the favorite functions in Internet Explorer 8 and that concludes part eight.