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How to Add and Access Website Links in AOL Favorite Places

© Cheryl Lewis

AOL’ s “Favorite Places” is a bookmarking system; a place to keep direct links to different websites that you like and want to visit often. It's relatively simple to use.

 You can find the Favorite Places on the top of the AOL menu browser bar. In the 7.0 program it will be in the dark purple area on the right.

When you are using AOL and you go to a particular website you will see a small heart icon in the upper right hand corner of the site window. It's just to the left of the _ (minimize) and X (close) buttons.

If you want to add a particular site to your Favorite Places, just double click on the little heart. A pop-up menu will appear and you give the options to Add to Favorite Places, Insert in Instant Message, Insert in Mail or Add to Menu Bar (in version 7.0; they may differ slightly in other versions). To put it in the Favorite Places, select Add to Favorite Places. The menu also gives you the option to Cancel in case you hit the heart button accidentally.

Adding Favorite Links to the Browser Bar

If you have three sites that you particularly like or visit very often, you will probably want to put them in the browser bar for easy access. By default, there are three different icons in this bar, to the right of the Favorite link. In version 7.0 they are Calendar, Radio and Quotes. These can be removed and replaced with sites of your choice. Place your mouse over the one you want to remove and right-click. Select Remove From Toolbar.

In order to put something else there, simply use the mouse to drag and drop the little heart icon into that area. You will get the option to pick one of the icons AOL provides for the spot in the browser.

Accessing Your Favorite Pages

Once you have some Favorite Place sites and you want to access them again, the easiest thing to do is click on the icon that shows a file with a heart in the center and says My Favorites. Your file of Favorites will open. Scroll down through the list and click on the one you want. It will take you right to the website you bookmarked.

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