customisable homepage....?

[joko]

is there a way to make your own homepage for when you open your internet browser? so rather than having a load of stuff that IE or AOL or whoever thinks you might want there... a way to add your own links, icons, info etc?
such as an answerbank logo to click on... or a full moontimetable ... lotto results, your own fave games, train timtables, just for your route ... should you want it...and just whatver you want to see, set it all to a homepage?
but i mean your own personal choices... not just the ones they automatically choose for you...

thanks

[Buenchico]

I've got my browser set to load a blank page at start up. It saves downloading tons of stuff I'll never need.

The easiest way to create your own home page would be to design a simple one page 'website', using Word (or, for a more advanced page, either FrontPage or something like Serif WebPlus). You wouldn't need to upload it to the web; you can keep it on your PC. Once you've designed it, just double-click on its icon to view it in your browser. Then (in Internet Explorer) go to Tools > Internet Options and click 'Use current' to set it as your home page.

It would be easy to create a home page, by that method, with your favourite pictures and links to your favourite websites. However, including things like, say, up to date weather forecasts would involve using HTML code to call the data from other web sites. It's not particularly difficult but it's certainly more complex than just creating a page with links.

To download Serif WebPlus (for free) go here:
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/WebP lus/default.asp

Alternatively, iGoogle lets you create a customised home page to include, for example, weather forecasts for your area or BBC news headlines. It's not as flexible as creating your own home page on your PC but, if your needs are fairly simple, it might do what you want:
http://www.google.com/ig

Chris

[dougielogan]

www.netvibes.com is a great page to open with, you can pick your own modules and even get your e-mails from yahoo, hotmail etc.

[Ethel]

I use firefox as my browser, and everytime I start it it loads five pages of my choice - two ebay, gmail, the news and answerbank.

It will open as many pages as I set it to

[fo3nix]

Yes, you can do this, and it's pretty easy.

You can change the homepage to be any HTML file you like -- either online somewhere (like google.com), or on your own computer.

If you know a bit of HTML yourself, or just use Word or Publisher or something, create a HTML file with your links, and store it somewhere on your computer. Then tell firefox to use that file as its homepage.

[fo3nix]

(BTW, you might have to use file:// in front of the address.)