How do I create my own start page?

[NakaNaka]

I know Yahoo lets you edit your my yahoo page or whatever, but I don't like Yahoo's format. I could just do links, but I don't want to do that either. I would like to have dynamic content, pulled from multiple sources. The sports scores from here, the news headlines from here. Is that possible at all? I'm not sure if it is, but it would be cool if it was.

-Phil

 

[bmacd]

copy the source from your favorite websites. merge and edit to your desire. Find a good host. Get a domain if your heart desires so. Now you have a good webpage

-=bmacd=-

 

[Paulson]

Just make an html file on your computer and use that

 

[NakaNaka]

i know just make the html.

bmacd - how do i merge it together?? Also, how do i know exactly which parts to use from the source code?

 

[notfred]

What you want to do is way beyond your abilities at this point. What you want requires that you be able to parse several different websites for dynamic content every time your start page is loaded. I can't think of anyway to do this without running your own webserver (not that updates dynamically everytime the page is loaded). So basically, you need to have you own website and some fancy parsing scripts to get the data you want, and then you need to write a script that formats your paresed data to look like you want it to.

 

[DougK62]

Originally posted by: notfred
What you want to do is way beyond your abilities at this point. What you want requires that you be able to parse several different websites for dynamic content every time your start page is loaded. I can't think of anyway to do this without running your own webserver (not that updates dynamically everytime the page is loaded). So basically, you need to have you own website and some fancy parsing scripts to get the data you want, and then you need to write a script that formats your paresed data to look like you want it to.

You don't need to get nearly this complicated to do what the fella wants.

Are you familiar with HTML? Do you know how to do some basic web scripting or at least understand what you see? If so, then just grab the source from the pages that have info that you want on your start page, mess with the code so that it looks the way you want, save it on your hard drive, and set your browser to use that as your start page. I do this and it works great.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: DougK62

Originally posted by: notfred
What you want to do is way beyond your abilities at this point. What you want requires that you be able to parse several different websites for dynamic content every time your start page is loaded. I can't think of anyway to do this without running your own webserver (not that updates dynamically everytime the page is loaded). So basically, you need to have you own website and some fancy parsing scripts to get the data you want, and then you need to write a script that formats your paresed data to look like you want it to.

You don't need to get nearly this complicated to do what the fella wants.

Are you familiar with HTML? Do you know how to do some basic web scripting or at least understand what you see? If so, then just grab the source from the pages that have info that you want on your start page, mess with the code so that it looks the way you want, save it on your hard drive, and set your browser to use that as your start page. I do this and it works great.

And he's supposed to edit the file over again each time he wants the stock prices on his page to update?

 

[RossMAN]

I would PM FFMCobalt he has a nice active desktop background which has a picture in the center and links to his online banking, e-mails, personal website, forums, etc. right on his desktop.

Just figure out how he made that, code it into a simple notepad file and save it somewhere on your hard drive.

 

[NakaNaka]

ok Ross I PM'ed him.

Anyone else?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Well, what you're trying to use (in Windows) is called an "Active Desktop"
From what I understand, you're looking for a page that has multiple things available on it.
From what I know, the only way you can do that is coding your own HTML to show bits and pieces of other pages.
With Active Desktop, you can actually show multiple internet pages at once on your desktop.
If you do not know what an Active Desktop is or how to use it, here are two great sources:
how to configure the active desktop
how to enable active desktop

You can find these tools with you go into the system display properties, but you probably already know that - or I would hope you do. If not, lemme know and I'll walk you through it.

I have the Active Desktop that I use available on the web, even.

http://www.ffmcobalt.com/activedesktop/desktop.htm

If you want, safe the file and use it yourself. You'll want to save it to your own HDD, edit it, and use that one because the one online gets changed fairly regularly - and you can't edit it, either.

Anyway, if you're familiar with HTML, hack away at it to make it look like how you want it. If not, let me know what you want, what links, what colors, what pictures, what layout, etc. and I'll come up with something for you. Then we can tweak it together to get exactly what you want

Otherwise, there's one little format for you. If you'd like other formats or something, let me know.

 

[RossMAN]

Thanks nik