Bookmark Keywords
Some of my most-used features of Firefox are the advanced bookmarking techniques. First is the “Keyword” feature. Let’s go through bookmarking a site and setting up and using the keyword feature to get into StaffWeb fast.
Click on the Bookmarks menu and choose Organize Bookmarks. If you click on the New Bookmarks button at the top left.
This box will pop up.
In Name you can put StaffWeb. In Location http://staffweb.ccci.org (or http://staff.uscm.org if you go there more often). Here’s the awesome part – just put the word “staff” in the Keyword box and hit OK.
Close the bookmark window, type “staff” into your location bar and hit Enter. Voilà! It goes right to the GCX login screen and to the staff site of your choice.
In my Firefox I have this set up for my email login, my feedreader, church website, router settings, ebay, online voicemail access, calendar and a number of other sites… if you combine this with the CTRL-L (or CMD-L for Macs) shortcut that takes your cursor directly to the Location Bar I can be to my Inbox in 5 keystrokes!
