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(78 votes) Published: Jan 02, 2008 7:10 p.m. In 1 Favorites Lists Viewed 545 times
I was screwing around with my computer properties and I found out that you can put active links onto your desktop using a simple html file. It is a very simple process an its easier than saving multiple bookmark icons onto your desktop.
First you need to make the html file.
Here is a basic one that I’m going to use as my example:
< html >
< head >
< title > Your title < /title >
< /head >
< body >
< h3 align=right > < a href= http://www.rotteneggs.com > RottenEggs< /a > < /h3 >
< /body >
< /html >
I’m using the < h3 align=right > tag to align the links I’m going to use to the right. This is because the icons on my screen are on the left.
If you want a bigger font for your links change h3 to either h2 or h1
(If you don’t understand this code or would like to learn more basic HTML you could check out my other eggs found here and here or my REsite QuickRef tag page found here)
Save this file as an HTML file
Alright now right click your desktop and go to properties
To make it easy to find your file change the dropbox on the bottom to the HTML files option.
Now apply this as your background and there you go.
This looks fairly boring however.
To change the pictures on the background add this to the < body > tag of your code:
< body background="YOUR PICTURE LOCATION HERE " >
To change the colors of the background add this to the body tag of the code:
< body bgcolor="YOUR COLOR" >
If you need to change the color of the link because it is either too light or too dark for the picture/color of the background ad this to the body tag of your code:
< body link=YOUR COLOR >
Now if you add more < a href= > tags with more urls you can have a your favorite sites conveniently located on your desktop
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