Website URL shortcut is simply a file found inside your laptop or computer desktop that you can easily click and access. This web url will automatically bring you to Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, and other websites defending in the url that you put inside it.

sharingthat.xyz-web-url-shortcut

What do I mean by saying "defending in the url that you put inside it"? Is this possible, because most of the tutorial available in the search engines are just making an easy web link shortcut using web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Internet Explorer and more. All of the mentioned web browsers, indeed, have the capability to easily create a web url shortcut within its Settings.

But, what we are going to do for this tutorial is manual. We will be doing some coding to be able to have a website url shortcut right inside our desktop. The good thing about the shortcut that we are going to make is that they are all can be opened using any browsers. Unlike the shortcut created using the browser that you are currently using, it is accessible and can be opened by that particular browser only.

Take note! Saving a webpage is totally different in creating a shortcut. Saving a web url or page will save all the page's resources such as the images, css, and its html file, and many more. A shortcut us just a short that contains a website's url.

Now, let's do this tutorial...

STEPS:

1. Open your Notepad.

2. Inside your Notepad, copy and paste the given code below.
[InternetShortcut]
URL=https://www.sharingthat.xyz

Do not forget to change sharingthat.xyz with the website that you wanted to have a shortcut on your desktop.

3. When done, click File > Save As...


4. In the File name, input the name of the website for the url that you typed. Click Save button.


5. See your desktop and you will then find there the shortcut url with the name that you typed. If you are using Google Chrome as your default browser, then, it will be the icon of your shortcut.


6. We are now going to change this icon with our own. I already created my own icon for the sharingthat.xyz shortcut URL using the PNG to ICO converter online. To change the icon, right click the url shortcut and click its Properties.


7. In the window that will appear, click the Change Icon button.


8. Now, click the Browse button.


9.  Browse for the icon file inside your local storage and select it. After selecting it, click OPEN.


10. Now, click OK. Then click APPLY and lastly another OK.


11. See the web url shortcut on your desktop with the new icon.


12. Done!

Second way to create a web url shortcut inside your desktop is with the use of the meta tag.

1. Open your Notepad, and inside it copy and paste the given code below.
 <meta http-equiv = "refresh" content = "0; url = https://www.sharingthat.xyz" />
Don't forget to change the sharingthat.xyz with your own web url.

2. When done, click File > Save As.

3. In the File name, type the name of your url with the file extension of .html, and click Save button. See the image below.


4. You will now have the new url web shortcut on your desktop.


5. But, we cannot change the icon of this one for now. To be able to do so, right click the file and then click Send to > Desktop (create shortcut).


6. To change the icon of your second shortcut, just right click it and then click its Properties. Just follow the same steps above to be able to change its icon to the icon that you wanted.

7. Done!

If you have something to share or ask about this tutorial, please leave a comment below. Thank you!