Returning to old Safari pages

I save an Internet Explorer web page to the desk top.
I log off and shut down the computer.
Later when I log onto the internet with Explorer I can easily find that web page again by double clicking its desktop icon.
Safari doesn’t let me do this. It can save a web page as an html desktop file but clicking its icon later gets me nowhere. The file name begins with
file:///Users/.....
Safari doesn’t accept this as a URL and announces ‘it can’t find the server’.
Is there a way around this, other than bookmarking the page?

Jack,
According to Aaron Wyatt:
If you want to save a link to the page as a file, just drag the icon next to the URL in the location bar to the finder. A file with an "@" icon should be created and double clicking it will bring back to the original URL.
This sounds exactly like what you want to do. You say: "... It would be much easier to doubleclick that file in its folder and be immediately logged onto its update ..."
The way I interpret it is that you want basically an icon you can click on (just like any other file) that contains a URL to the page you want.
Or, you may want to save the page as it is at the time of viewing, to avoid seeing the updated version. Then you just click "Save As...". I did it with this page, and it saves all images and even the text I have typed in this field so far.
Are either of these correct? If not, your response seems a bit confusing.
Regards,
Tim

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