How to do something like my.yahoo?

[dopcombo]

My boss just asked me a question which he thought was easily done but seemed like a lot of work to me.

What he wanted to know was.... how do we do something like a customizable front page for users that access our website?

Something like my.yahoo concept, where the user gets to choose what he wants on his access page. Maybe his email, or today's news, or the weather, etc.

What sort of software am i looking at? Or am i totally misunderstanding this and its just a simple case of cookies and html??

thanks for any help. Desperately seeking some.

 

[RSMemphis]

Yes, it is a simple as sending out cookies, but the server side needs to read the cookie back and send out a special page for the user.

It's easy to do with any server side scripting language, PHP, ASP, Perl, etc...
Basically you read the info stored in the cookier and customize the page for the user.

 

[FOBSIDE]

basically you have to have some way of recognizing who accesses the page. this can be done through cookies and logins. once you know who is accessing the page you want to spit out content dynamically. basically you have templates of sort you want to spit out content with from a database.

 

[dopcombo]

Thanks for all the advice guys.
Just told my boss that and he seems pleased that the solution isn't too difficult.
AT has saved the day again? LOL.