All-Purpose Homepage

@Sky_CaptainNov 05.2004

I like having all my frequent destinations handy on one page. I’ve designed a homepage for our computers at work with this in mind. Search boxes for Yahoo, Google, Ebay, Amazon and Dictionary.com are all included, which saves time typing in addresses and waiting for pages to load.

Feel free to make it your homepage, too:
~~[url]~~http://animatusstudio.com/mbhome.html[/url]

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@ray326Nov 05.2004 — #What? No weather? ;-)

@Stephen_PhilbinNov 05.2004 — #Ya had to go and put a downer on it didn't ya, ya miserable old coot. ?

lol. Just kiddin'

@Ben_RogersNov 06.2004 — #Heh. Give it a good ol' CSS layout, and change the colour scheme to something niftier, and I'm... not sold. No offense, but w007 for Firefox. Search box for all popular engines built in, "I'm feeling lucky" Google functionality by typing a phrase into the addy bar, Homepage is my gmail client, daily comics in a bookmark toolbar folder, daily blogs in another bookmark toolbar folder, and the freq. visited pages in a 3rd bookmark folder. I repeat, woot. Firefox panders to the lazy! ?

@ray326Nov 06.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by Mr Herer [/i]

[B]Ya had to go and put a downer on it didn't ya, ya miserable old coot. ?

lol. Just kiddin' [/B][/QUOTE] Well, ya got the [b]old coot[/b] part right for sure. 8)

@Sky_CaptainauthorNov 06.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by Ben R. [/i]

[B]Heh. Give it a good ol' CSS layout, and change the colour scheme to something niftier, and I'm... not sold. No offense, but w007 for Firefox. Search box for all popular engines built in, "I'm feeling lucky" Google functionality by typing a phrase into the addy bar, Homepage is my gmail client, daily comics in a bookmark toolbar folder, daily blogs in another bookmark toolbar folder, and the freq. visited pages in a 3rd bookmark folder. I repeat, woot. Firefox panders to the lazy! ? [/B][/QUOTE]

Well, I never meant it to be everything to everybody, but it works for me.

I've been playing with the colors a lot. Still not crazy about the pink/purple. This is a fairly straightforward page, and I'm a meat & potatoes page designer - I haven't learned CSS yet.

I use the google search in my Firefox browser, too. But sometimes I need more search options. And I really hate loading the front page of IMDB, Amazon, Yahoo, etc. Especially on dial-up.

I really only use bookmarks at home. When I'm at work, I divide my time between several computers. When doing design work, I might be testing on either Explorer or Mozilla. That's why I find it handy to have a common homepage.

What is "w007" and "woot"?

@Ben_RogersNov 06.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by Sky Captain [/i]

[B]Well, I never meant it to be everything to everybody, but it works for me.

I've been playing with the colors a lot. Still not crazy about the pink/purple. This is a fairly straightforward page, and I'm a meat & potatoes page designer - I haven't learned CSS yet.

I use the google search in my Firefox browser, too. But sometimes I need more search options. And I really hate loading the front page of IMDB, Amazon, Yahoo, etc. Especially on dial-up.

I really only use bookmarks at home. When I'm at work, I divide my time between several computers. When doing design work, I might be testing on either Explorer or Mozilla. That's why I find it handy to have a common homepage.

What is "w007" and "woot"? [/B][/QUOTE] I know, I know, I just wanted to do a Firefox-is-awesome rant. ? You no know woot? :o

@Sky_CaptainauthorNov 06.2004 — #Well, Firefox is pretty darn cool. I just wish I could save shortcuts to my desktop like I used to do with Explorer.

As for using Firefox to search... I just discovered A9.com. Their site combines Google's web and image searches. Plus a toolbar plug-in for Firefox. Pretty neat: http://a9.com/-/company/whatsCool.jsp

Hey, I'm no genius. I no know woot. ?

Wait, I just looked it up. Are you talking about this? http://www.woot.com/wootinfo.aspx

@MstrBobNov 06.2004 — #http://www.langmaker.com/db/eng_woot.htm

@Ben_RogersNov 06.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by MstrBob [/i]

[B]http://www.langmaker.com/db/eng_woot.htm [/B][/QUOTE] Good ol' Bob. :p There it is. [i]http://www.langmaker.com/db/eng_woot.htm[/i]

[b]When hackers had achieved "root access" on a target, they would shout "root", eventually as mistyping and slang took over, this became "woot". This evolved into a yell of accomplishment.[/b][/quote]That's intersting, never heard that before. But wouldn't it be toot, foot, or doot?

@MstrBobNov 06.2004 — #Woo, Root! Wooroot! W-root! Woot!

@Ben_RogersNov 06.2004 — #Ah. Now I get it. See, I was previously not under the impression that hackers were [i]retards[/i].

@MstrBobNov 06.2004 — #Just goes to show how much [I]you[/I] know. BUt I never said it made any sense. I think that it's a bs origin, and it was just somebody thinking they were cool.

@Ben_RogersNov 06.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by MstrBob [/i]

[B]Just goes to show how much [I]you[/I] know. BUt I never said it made any sense. I think that it's a bs origin, and it was just somebody thinking they were cool. [/B][/QUOTE] Uh, right. I think they just started W007 cuz it's fun to say. On a slightly related note, "woo" sucks. <http://www.theaterhopper.com/comics/030604.jpg>

@Sky_CaptainauthorNov 07.2004 — #Okay...

Thanks for the explanation. I'm not sure I'm better off knowing this little bit of hacker humor.

I'm getting flashbacks to the time someone tried to explain to me the phrase, "All your base are belong to us."

@PromptracerNov 07.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by Sky Captain [/i]

[B]I like having all my frequent destinations handy on one page. I've designed a homepage for our computers at work with this in mind. Search boxes for Yahoo, Google, Ebay, Amazon and Dictionary.com are all included, which saves time typing in addresses and waiting for pages to load.

Feel free to make it your homepage, too:

http://animatusstudio.com/mbhome.html [/B][/QUOTE]

Nice page dude.

Is it ok to use but alter it to suit (Ie add some of the things i would like on it too) ??????

@Sky_CaptainauthorNov 08.2004 — #Feel free. I'm just piggybacking code from other sites anyway.

@PromptracerNov 08.2004 — #Makes me wonder if it would be a good idea to offer a "Customised Home/Start Page Designing.

I no heaps of people that just use their service providers home pageand it would not even occur to to have thier own to a spec that suits

Almost as good as ScreenSavers! Better in my Book LOL

Perhaps we on this thread should corner the market!

@Sky_CaptainauthorNov 08.2004 — #It makes sense. I've done this several times over the years for various computers at home or at work.

When I worked at a radio station, we needed to have research material at our fingertips. So I designed a page for the studio PC to search "This Day in History," IMDB's Birthday list, music sites, etc.

My current page is more geared towards film and animation. Whenever I need to know how to draw something, whether it's a windmill or a toothbrush, I can do an image search right from the homepage. In writing press releases, a dictionary or thesaurus comes in handy, so there's the reasoning there.

Any business would have needs specific to their field, so there could be a market for specialized homepages.

@PromptracerNov 08.2004 — #this is something that a group of us could get a web site together for and once set up could advertise this very service.

I for one would be very interested in getting a link to such a site/service on my websites that are up and coming so would be well up for working with others on such a project.

In fact i am gonna check suaitable domain names now!

I dont know about anyone else but if you had a choice between a cutom home/start page or a screensaver i think i know which sounds most interesting to me.

Back in a min perhaps with a domain name for it!

@PromptracerNov 08.2004 — #is available

What do ou think guys

Should i get it?

Not for me but to set something up as a "possible" extra revenue source for all who have read this thread primarily. Especially Sky Captain

Sounds and looks like to me like something that could be turnede into an actual comapany.

Decided to buy it

www.custom-homepage.com that is LOL

@PromptracerNov 08.2004 — #Fancy getting

www.custom-startpage.com ?

Its available (Well it was b4 i posted this)

I also got earlier got www.worlds-domains.com

& www.domain-worlds.com

to go with ukdaddy.com and chiefofdomains.com and chiefofhosting.com which i shall all redirect to domains-4-u