What Makes You Bookmark a Website?

[David Jackson]

We all have things that attract us to certain websites on the Internet. What are the things that attract you? Is it the design, content, functionality, color, subject matter, name of the website?

What makes you bookmark a particular website?

David Jackson

[cwboaze]

For me, it's almost never design. (only very very very nice designs get my bookmark just for design style). I bookmark according to the resources on the site which I can't remember or get enough of. Example: A site housing 1000's of downloads or articles, which I like, I will bookmark and come back to check it out every day for new content. or subscribe to the RSS feed.

[cindybidar]

For me, bookmarks are temporary. Something I want to come back and buy later. A design or a plugin I want to try on one of my sites. An article I want to read in depth at a later time. They all go in my bookmarks toolbar, which is cleaned out on a regular basis.

The only sites that get long-term bookmarks are tools, like Google keywords, Picnik, IMDB, or Craig's List.

For everything else I use RSS.

[lisamariemary]

I like Cindy's viewpoint on this! I rarely ever bookmark anymore, because, I've made such a mess of my bookmarks. Can you say .... 'digital packrat'?

I should start all over and follow Cindy's way!!!

[wade_watson]

I bookmark many more particular pages than I do website main pages. I like to have an easy local link to get back to a useful article or feature. I've got about 3 well packed folders of Clicknewz articles as a matter of fact.

For the most useful articles, I've learned it's wise to save the page locally just in case the web page disappears for some reason. So I often both save a bookmark and a page file.

A site has to have a lot going for it for me to bookmark the main page, such as a compelling blog, or a useful service.

Wade

[cindybidar]

I like Cindy's viewpoint on this! I rarely ever bookmark anymore, because, I've made such a mess of my bookmarks. Can you say .... 'digital packrat'?

I should start all over and follow Cindy's way!!!

We transferred all my husband's bookmarks to a new computer last night (yay for xmarks) and it took for-EVER. Turns out he has one massive bookmarks folder with about a thousand links in it. Now that's a packrat!

[cwboaze]

lol, 1k aint nothing. My Current Favorites in FF is 13,092 links. and I categorize my favorites, organized. My IE is 10k and my Opera is 2k.

[cindybidar]

lol, 1k aint nothing. My Current Favorites in FF is 13,092 links. and I categorize my favorites, organized. My IE is 10k and my Opera is 2k.

Wow. Maybe David's question to you should be, "What *doesn't* make you bookmark a website?"

[cwboaze]

well, that would be useless content, or a crappy design. lol

[denkywarke]

I bookmark sites either because of some interesting functionality, or because of interesting content.As I'm a web developer I also occasinaly bookmark websites with a good design, but I don't think average joe does this (much).