How do I create “Bookmark This Site” on my webpage?

howard11792 · 12-04-2007, 07:42 PM

I would like to give viewers an easy option to automatically bookmark my site during their visit. What is the code and how do I do it?

Thanks

gregharaksin · 12-04-2007, 08:23 PM

awesome question!

jessiesc · 12-04-2007, 11:12 PM

Add this between your <head> </head> tags:

<script language="JavaScript" >
// script by http://www.yourwebsite.com
var urlAddress = "http://www.yourwebsite.com";
var pageName = "yourwebsite.com - Your page name here";
function addToFavorites() {
if (window.external) { window.external.AddFavorite(urlAddress,pageName)}
else { alert("Sorry! Your browser doesn't support this feature.");}
}
</script>

Place this in your <body> somewhere:

<a href="javascript:addToFavorites()">Click To Bookmark This Page !</a>

Change yourwebsite to whatever url you want to bookmark.

rvolk75 · 12-05-2007, 05:56 AM

or you can do something like this anywhere on the page:

<a href="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('http ://www.yoursite.com', 'Search my city Real Estate');">
<img src="http://picture/house.gif"> Add this Page to your
Favorites</a>

jessiesc · 12-05-2007, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rvolk75

or you can do something like this anywhere on the page:

<a href="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('http ://www.yoursite.com', 'Search my city Real Estate');">
<img src="http://picture/house.gif"> Add this Page to your
Favorites</a>

Nice one, definately an easier method and doesn't require access to the <head> tag. But the above doesn't work on my site, I think it's because of the semi colon. This does however work (I've removed the img):

<a href="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('http ://www.mysite.com','Favorites text')">Bookmark Us</a>

rvolk75 · 12-05-2007, 06:52 AM

It should work with the image. That's how I have it setup. Maybe the img tag just needs to be closed.

howard11792 · 12-13-2007, 09:59 PM

I cant get the picture to work...Any suggestions???

langard · 12-14-2007, 03:20 AM

Yes. Your site is built with PHP.

Use jessiesc's suggestion and put the function in the header. Backslash any full quotes (\").

Backslash any full quotes wherever you put it into the page also like so:
<a href=\"javascript:window.external.AddFavorite('htt p ://www.mysite.com','Favorites text')\">Bookmark Us</a>

Then it'll work fine. Try it on a test page if you think you'll have problems until it functions properly, then transplant it.