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The Basics
We give you many ways to find and add content to My Yahoo!, and they all start with the same basic steps. If you like, add a new tab before adding content. Tabs offer a way to organize your content into meaningful groups. You can have up to 9 tabs each with their own content.
Note: Though you’re unable to write your own content, you’ll find that we cover many areas of interests. For example, if you’d like to include content with links to your favorite Web pages, add the Yahoo! Bookmarks content item. You’ll find it by searching (it’s labeled Bookmarks without Yahoo!).
Here’s How
View the tab to which you want to add content by clicking its name in the tab bar.
Click Content.
The content gallery opens below the tab bar and displays a variety of content and ways to find additional content.
From here, you can:
add content that’s already displayed by clicking the Add button next to the content you want. Click the next and previous buttons to scroll through your choices.
preview content by clicking Show Preview, which you see when the cursor is over content.
browse for content by clicking categories and then clicking the next and previous buttons to scroll through your choices.
add RSS content by typing the URL for the feed. What’s RSS?
add preloaded tabs by selecting a tab filled with related content. What’s a preloaded tab?
search for content by typing keywords in the search box.
When you’ve added the content you want, click the I’m Done button (not necessary when adding a preloaded tab).
All new content appears in the left column (or right depending on the tab’s layout) with the last one added appearing at the top of the column. You can move content within a tab by dragging the content’s title and dropping it into a new location.
Each tab has its own content. If you want the same content on multiple tabs, you need to add it to each tab.
If you want to learn the different ways to read content, click here.
What’s Next
You can also add content when a friend shares content with you. You’ll receive an email with a link to the content and can add it if you like. Learn more in Sharing Content With Friends.
Words to Know
- Yahoo! Bookmarks: an online service that lets you save links to your favorite web sites and access them from any computer anywhere in the world.
- Content: information in My Yahoo! that changes on a regular basis, such as news items, sporting events, and the weather.
- Drag and drop: the ability to move an object from one place to another by placing the cursor over an object, pressing the left mouse button, dragging the selected object to another location, and releasing the mouse button.
- Preloaded tab: a pre-defined tab of related content created by the people at Yahoo! and made available to you as a quick way to add tabs of content to My Yahoo!.
- RSS: a standard distribution format that Web sites and blogs can use to send updated headlines to users through a service like Yahoo!. (The acronym is commonly expanded to Really Simple Syndication.)