Now you need to find out which browser version you are using. Click your browser's Help menu, and select About Navigator or Communicator or About Internet Explorer. The browser version will be shown at the top of the new page; for example, Netscape Communicator 4.74.

Once you've determined which browser version you have, use your browser's back button to return to this page and follow the appropriate set of instructions below using your other window.

Netscape Navigator

Version 4.0 or higher:

1. Click on the Edit menu
2. Choose Preferences
3. Under Category, click Navigator
4. In the Location box enter: http://teachers.net
5. Click OK

Version 3.0 and lower:

1. Click on the Options menu
2. Choose General Preferences
3. Select the Appearance tab
4. In the Startup section, click the Home Page Location button
5. Enter http://teachers.net in the text field
6. Click OK

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Version 5.0 and higher:

1. Go to http://teachers.net
2. Click your browser's Tool menu
3. Select Internet Options
4. Click the General tab
5. In the Home Page section, click Use Current
6. Click OK

Version 4.0:

1. Go to http://teachers.net
2. Click your browser's View menu
3. Select Internet Options
4. Click the General tab
5. In the Home Page section, click Use Current
6. Click OK

Version 3.0 and lower:

1. Go to http://teachers.net
2. Click your browser's View menu
3. Choose Options
4. Click the Navigation tab
5. Click Use Current
6. Click OK

NOW CHECK IT OUT
If you want to make sure you were successful, click the Home button at the top of your browser, it should take you to http://teachers.net. Now every time you log on you'll have the world's best teachers' network and support system at your finger tip.

The next time you open your browser, http://teachers.net will appear. No matter where you are on the Web, anytime you click your browser's Home button, you will be back home at Teachers.Net!

"THAT WAS EASY", YOU SAY!
NOW HERE'S THE INSIDE SCOOP ON WHAT THE REALLY SUPERDUPER TEACHERS DO
Highly productive teachers use every trick they can find to quickly get from here to there. They reach their favorite locations in record time by putting their Netscape Personal Toolbar or Internet Explorer Links Toolbar to work. These toolbars are simple and quick to set up and will prove to be very handy.

Netscape Navigator

1. Click your browser's View menu
2. Select Show
3. Click on Personal Toolbar to make a check mark appear in front of it

Note: If you don't see this option, you are using a version that is too old. Go to http://home.netscape.com/download/0222101/10000-en----_qual.html to find your way to a newer version. For now I suggest that you stay away from Version 6, Version 4.76 will do just fine.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Click your browser's View menu
2. Select Toolbars
3. Click on Links to make a check mark appear in front of it

Note: If you don't see this option, you are using a version that is too old. Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/?IE to find your way to a newer version.

Netscape

1. Hold your cursor over the bookmark icon in front of the word Location. Your cursor will change into a cute little chubby hand
2. Click, hold and drag that icon to the left end of your Personal Toolbar. As you drag you will see the icon change to a + link icon indicating that you are about to make it a link
3. Drop it onto your Personal Toolbar

Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Locate the "e" icon in front of the http in the address box
2. Click hold and drag it to the left end of your Links Toolbar
3. Drop it when you see the line appear indicating where the link will be

Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer
Go to http://teachers.net/mentors

Follow the directions as before to add a link for this page to your Personal Toolbar or Links Toolbar.

You can edit the word/words that appear on the toolbar buttons.

Netscape

1. Click on your Bookmarks button
2. Go up to Edit Bookmarks and click
3. Find the entree that you want to rename
4. Right click on it or click and hold for Mac
5. Select Bookmark Properties
6. In the Name dialog box type the word/s you want to appear on the corresponding Personal Toolbar button
7. Click OK

1. Right click on the button you want to rename
2. Select Rename
3. Type the word/s you want to appear on the corresponding Links Toolbar button
4. Click OK

In either browser;

1. Go to your address location box and type; C:\ (note, this is a backslash, not the one used in URLs)
2. Press your Enter or Return key
3. Scroll to a folder or directory that you frequently access
4. Click on it
5. Add a link to this location on your Personal or Links Toolbar by following the steps in the above instructions

To explore some great little time savers, go to http://www.bookmarklets.com Bookmarklets - free tools for power surfing. You'll find them to be very handy. A good example is the Stop Music Bookmarklet. When you are surfing late at night and come upon a page with blaring music, you can quickly hit Stop Music in your Personal or Links Toolbar to quiet your machine so you don't wake your significant other, the neighbors, the baby, the dog or the cat.

Windows OS and Microsoft Internet Explorer Only
You can add a toolbar that will give you quick access to a good search engine by going to http://www.google.com/options/toolbar.html and following the directions.

A little time spent now setting up your Toolbars can save you a great amount of time later. Explore the possibilities and don't be afraid to try something new. You'll wonder how you ever got along without some of these tips and toys.