Comments on: Show me your Start Page

Question: Show me your Start Page

ajr — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:25:14 -0800

I'm ready to redesign a new start page and need some inspiration. Anybody willing to share their personal portal to the web?

By: procrastination

procrastination — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:37:58 -0800

I suggest taking a look at the Open Source Web Design site. I have found great designs to work from there.

http://www.oswd.org/

Enjoy!

By: Satapher

Satapher — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:44:29 -0800

I like to use public domain images

http://www.delmorepilcrow.com

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:34:03 -0800

I just took all the links I normaly typed in and put 'em on one big .htm page.

By: ontic

ontic — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:39:17 -0800

How about the Astronomy Picture of the Day? It's usually a great picture with an explanation written by a real physicist/astronomer.

By: rafter

rafter — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:55:54 -0800

Here is my old one, though some of the search boxes don't work (and I lost the Wikipedia one somewhere along the way). I haven't bothered to fix any now that I use Firefox and do all my searching right from the address bar.

Right now I'm working on one without the bright bright blue and with some RSS feeds (NYT, WaPo, BBC) on the front page, but there's a long way to go.

By: grouse

grouse — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:59:25 -0800

Mine is about:blank. Anything I would want on a start page is either (1) a quick search, (2) a del.icio.us bookmark, or (3) a Bloglines feed.

By: sjvilla79

sjvilla79 — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:41:34 -0800

Here's a couple of screenshots of my custom design. I am happy to share the template with you if you want to learn from it. It's valid XHTML and CSS too.

By: Lanark

Lanark — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:02:45 -0800

Here's my 5 column start page

By: geeky

geeky — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:19:31 -0800

My portal to the web

What you can't see: There is a "site management" and "just for me" section that contain links to things like my websites and their cpanels, websites for work, my banking website, gmail, etc. Those sections are hidden to everyone but me, based on my IP address.

By: clarahamster

clarahamster — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:55:34 -0800

my start page is dynamically generated using perl! :)

in the middle is a list of favorite links, with the # of times i've clicked the link and the last time i've clicked the link. they're sorted so that the most-recently-visited ones are at the top. if i don't visit for a couple of weeks, they fall off the front page. the links are grouped based on how long it's been since i've visited them: less than eight hours, less than one day, less than two days, etc.

on the left, some of the same links are displayed under headings like "bills," "blogs," "daily updates," "tuesday updates," etc. for each heading, if the page hasn't been visited in some number of days, the text is bolded and bright red so that i know (for example) to pay the cable bill.

the right has a form to add a new link to the list (with an optional group for display on the left), the doppler radar from weather.com for my area, and a webcam image of venice beach for when the weather is bad where i am.

at the top, i have search boxes for google and the online guitar archive.

if i've made no sense, here's an annotated and mildly-censored screenshot