Why make U3A my home page?

Then, every time you log onto the internet, the U3A website will automatically be displayed and you will immediately see if there are any new notices.
	The link to     on the navigation side bar of the U3A Home Page even makes it convenient for you to travel from there and surf the big wide grown-ups' world outside of U3A.

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        Or .....

Perhaps you would prefer to create an icon on your desktop which you can click on to take you directly to Moraira-Teulada U3A? Click icons for easy-to-follow instructions

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Make U3A your home page:

If you access the internet with Microsoft Internet Explorer (you might find it easier to print a copy of these instructions before you begin):

• Click on this Home Page link to display the Home Page.
  (Problem?     Well, I did say that you might find it easier to print a copy of these instructions before you begin!)     
• On the top menu bar, click on "Tools"
• From the drop-down menu, click on "Internet Options"
• In the window that opens, you will probably find that the "General" tab is already selected. If not, select it now.
• The first item is entitled "Home page" and the first button in this item is "Use current". Click on the button to make the U3A home page your home page.

OR

• Stay on this page and, on the top menu bar, click on "Tools"
• In the window that opens, you will probably find that the "General" tab is already selected. If not, select it now.
• The first item is entitled "Home page" and in its address window you will see the URL (web address) of your current home page. To change it to the U3A home page, overwrite your current home page URL by copying and pasting
  http://www.u3amoraira-teulada.org/index.html
  in its place.

If you access the internet using Firefox, the only difference is that, after clicking on "Tools" you click on "Options" (instead of "Internet Options" as in the above Internet Explorer instructions).

If you access the internet using Safari:

• On the top menu bar, click on "Edit".
• From the drop down menu, choose "Preferences" (which is probably the option at the very bottom of the list).
• Copy and paste
  http://www.u3amoraira-teulada.org/index.html
  into the Home Page address window (or, when you have the U3A home page open, click on the "Set to current page" button).

Alternatively: create an icon on your desktop which you can click on
to take you directly to Moraira-Teulada U3A

• First, highlight and copy this link:   www.u3amoraira-teulada.org
• Right click on any empty space on your desktop
• On the menu that appears, select 'New' then click 'Shortcut' on the sub-menu
• A window entitled 'Create Shortcut' will appear. In the empty box, paste the link copied above, or type www.u3amoraira-teulada.org
• Click the 'Next' button
• In the next window 'New Internet Shortcut' will be highlighted in the box. Press the delete key to remove this and type a name for your Icon (e.g. Moraira-Teulada U3A)
• Click the 'Finish' button
• There will now be a new Icon with the name you specified on your desktop. If you double-click this it will take you directly to the Moraira-Teulada U3A Home Page

If you want to get more sophisticated still,
you can change your desktop icon to the castle picture

• Right click on the above icon
• From the drop-down menu, choose 'Save Image As'
• 'u3a-icon.ico' should appear in the 'File name' box
• At the top of the window which opens, you will see the 'Save in' box. Make a note of which folder the picture is going to be saved in. (It will probably be in 'My Pictures' or 'My Documents')
• Left click on the 'Save' button
• Now right click on the 'Moraira-Teulada U3A' desktop icon which you created earlier
• From the drop-down menu choose 'Properties'
• If it is not already displayed, left click on the 'Web Document' tab
• Left click on the 'Change Icon' button
• In the window which opens, click on the 'Browse' button and locate the folder in which the u3a-icon.ico file is located
• Left click on the u3a-icon.ico file
• The filename 'u3a-icon.ico' will have appeared in the 'File name' box. Left click on the 'Open' button
• Left click on the 'OK' button
• In the window which opens, left click on 'Apply'
• Left click on the 'OK' button
• Your Moraira-Teulada U3A desktop shortcut should now have the new icon

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