Various tools that can help you effectively navigate Web documents are available in your Web browser, the most common of which are the Back and Forward buttons that appear on the toolbar. Using these buttons allows you to quickly move forward and backward through Web sites that you've been viewing. Two additional tools that can help you effectively navigate effectively and manage the sites you visit are favorite sites listings and browsing histories. For example, Internet Explorer includes a Favorites feature that allows you to identify useful sites as favorites and then store the addresses of those sites in folders on your computer. Then, rather than retyping the address of the site when you wish to return to it, you can simply select the site from your Favorites subfolder and let the Web browser automatically retrieve it for you.
Navigator offers a similar feature, known as Bookmarks.
As you browse the Web, you may frequently find that you run across sites that, although not relevant to your current research task, might prove useful later. Storing the locations of these sites among your favorite or bookmarked sites will assure that you do not forget about, or lose the address of the site before you've had the opportunity to explore it. To add a site to your listing of Favorites in Internet Explorer , open the site in your Web browser and then click the Favorites option on the Menu bar. To do so, select Edit Favorites from the Favorites pull-down menu and click the New Folder button to create folders. You can even opt to display your folders of Favorites in the Web browser work area by clicking the Favorites button on the toolbar.