webphant.com is a service to store favorites of websites at a central place.
Imagine following situation: you are at home surfing on the web and discover some really interesting sites. Later you visit your friends and tell them about these sites. If you now only knew the links? Save them at webphant.com and you can access your personal favorites from every computer with internet access.
But webphant.com is even more. Share your favorites with other users, send messages to other users and search for more links in the public catalogue of the Open Directory Project – the widest web catalogue created by humans.

Yes. webphant.com is for free and can be used everywhere and by everyone.

To use webphant.com, you first have to create a user account at webphant.com. Simply click on Sign up and fill out the required fields. After your registration an eMail will be send to you containing your personal activation link. After having called the given activation link, your account at webphant.com is activated. You can now create your free definable folder structure and comfortably store your favorites at webphant.com.

Your eMail address is needed, when signing up at webphant.com. To approve your information and to ensure, that nobody else signs up using your personal data, an account at webphant.com is only available, after you explicitly call the activation link that has been send to you by eMail.
Further your eMail address is used, when you forgot your password and therefor need to request a new one.

At webphant.com simply click at the link Forgot password, This link is also available at the login form. On the following screen please enter eMail address you used for registration at webphant.com. An eMail will be send to this eMail address. This eMail contains a link, with which you can create a new password.

Your favorites are stored in a central database, that is accessed by all actual and upcoming services of webphant.com. That makes it possible to access your personal favorites at webphant.com from any place where you have access to the internet, without installing additional applications first. All you need is a browser and internet access.

Every bookmark at webphant.com has a unique ten digit code of letters and numbers. This code not only identifies the link – it also gives you a way to shorten long URLs to an adress http://www.webphant.com/[QUICKLINK] (where [QUICKLINK] is the respective code). When a visitor calls such an address, he will be directly forwarded to the underlying website. You no longer have to keep lengthy addresses in mind – all you have to enter or tell to friends, relatives or other people is this ten digit code.

webphant.com does not only consists of your personal favorites. It also provides access to the links of the Open Directory Project – the widest web catalogue created by humans – to group and search at.

Currently you can import bookmarks in Opera-.adr-Style or bookmarks in Netscape-Style. .adr-Files can be directly exported out of Opera. Netscape-formatted files are supported for the browsers Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Seamonkey and Opera.
At the menu Settings you will find the option Import bookmarks. Here you can select your local file and specify, into which folder the bookmarks of that file should be stored. Please keep in mind, that the import may last a few seconds. Do not cancel the import. After finishing the import you will be redirected to the selected import-folder. Your local favorites are now available at webphant.com.

Click on the properties icon on the right side of the folder toolbar. You now get a popup with all available options for the current folder. Click on "Create subfolder". On the following screen you can now make further details on the new folder.
After saving the new folder ist available - and you are automatically redirected to it.
To change a folder. again click on the properties icon on the right side of the folder toolbar. The same popup as before will be displayed - containing all available options for the selected folder. Click on "Properties". You can now change the details on this folder.

Click on the properties icon on the right side of the folder toolbar. You now get a popup with all available options for the current folder. Click on "Create bookmark". On the following screen you can now make further details on the new bookmark. e.g a description and keywords. Hit the "Save" button  - the new bookmark is stored at webphant.com.
To change a bookmark, click on the properties icon next to the respective bookmark. A popup will be displayed containing all available options for the respective bookmark. Click on "Properties". Now you can change the details on this bookmark.

Yes – sometimes it makes sense to assign a bookmark to multiple folders as this bookmark might touch multiple topics.
Of course this is possible, too. The number of assignments is thereby unlimited.
When you delete a link in a specific folder, only the assignment will be deleted. If the assignment was the last remaining one, the bookmark itself will be deleted, too.

Of course you can share your bookmarks with other users. There are two ways to do that. One way is to publish your bookmarks - they will be visible then for everyone and will be displayed, when a visitor at webphant.com gets your bookmarks listed as a result of his search.
The other way to share bookmarks is by sharing folders. Doing so will share all bookmarks in this folder with the users that were defined by yourself. By sharing folders you can define fine-grained permissions on the shared folder, so that e.g. one user is only allowed to browse your folder, while another one can create but not delete bookmarks.

Publishing is available for bookmarks. Publishing a bookmark makes it visible to everyone. Your published bookmarks will be displayed, when another user searches with criterias matching to your published bookmarks.
Sharing is an option for folders. To share a folder, you have to define a username, for whom you want to release the respective folder. Depending on the permission you grant to the user, he can browse this folder or even add new subfolders, create new bookmarks and delete existing objects. Anyway - the share permission is only granted to the owner of the folder.

No. An export function is not available.

Yes. You can create folders with the same name.

Yes. You can create bookmarks with the same name.

Yes. You can create bookmarks with the same url. This might also happen automatically, when you import bookmarks from local files. To remove bookmarks with identical urls, you can call the duplicate check. This check selects all bookmarks from your own folders with identical urls. You can decide on your own, which of the duplicates you want to remove - or leave as they are.

At your public profile you can tell details on your person, that can later be seen by every webphant.com user. Of course all information are optional and can be enabled or disabled selectively.

At the moment your profile does not get displayed at any part of webphant.com. This is an option, which might come in closer future.

With the IM system (IM = Internal Message) you can communicate with other webphant.com users. You can easily send message to others as long as they have the IM system activated.
The IM system is also used, when other webphant.com users start sharing folders with you. When having activated the respective option in your settings, you will be informed by IM on every new permission and/or status change.

The number right to the Link "Messages" tells you, how many new messages are in your webphant.com inbox.

Per default settings actions on bookmarks and folders can only be performed on single objects. So if you want to delete all bookmarks in a folder but not the folder itself, per default settings you need to delete every bookmark separatly. At your display settings you can enable the option "mass options". Now there will be a checkbox on the left side of each object as well as on the bottom of each list. With a single click you can now delete all selected objects.

At the menu Settings you can find the option Duplicate check. Here you can check your bookmarks for duplicate entries and select, which of these multiple entries you want to delete.

Of course you can define, to which page you will get forwarded after a successful login. You can choose between

• the start page
• the public catalogue
• your personal bookmarks
• your webphant.com inbox

With webphant.com you cannot only collect your bookmarks for your own – you can also share them with other users. Depending on the rights you grant them, the user can browse the released folder or can also create subfolders and/or bookmarks or even delete them. The permissions can be defined on a per user level and of course can be changed at every time.

You can always reach webphant.com at the eMail-Adress support@webphant.com where your request will be proceeded immediately. If you have a question that would suit good to our FAQ, we are glad to get your recommendation and extend the FAQ referring to this.