Your Start Page

[Jei]

Hi all,
my start page has been www.google.com for the longest while. now i've decided to use one of those portals that let you customize the content so you see what you want on your start page.

though, i really don't want to go thru all the trouble of registering and tinkering with all the portals to see which ones i like (ok so i'm being a bit lazy :D )

anywho, i read this article at CNet ( http://www.cnet.com/software/0-352105-7-1729259.html ) so that helped me some. i am thinking of trying excite's start page, but if any of you have a favorite or any recommendations or maybe what type of start page you have, i'd appreciate it.

[DJHK]

i just use google, there's nothing wrong with that. I'd rather have a fast simple start page than an elaborate, slow-loading one.

[TFA Network]

lol, mines been set at "about:blank" for longest time, i recommend it for a fast load start-page, ROTFLMAO

[roly]

I think http://lite.excite.com is a good start page

[Kaliber]

google for me :D

[invalid]

yep, i use google too

I wonder how much bandwidth google uses just for people that use it as thier homepage

[Kaliber]

Well the page is only text with an image up the top...wouldn't be more than 5k at my guess

[Bruce]

Obviously about:blank

[Kaliber]

Why do so many people love about:blank?

[Bruce]

Becasue you don't have to wait for a page to load after opening a new browser window.

[The Red Guy]

I use Yahoo!.

[Moonman]

mine is google aswell. Yahoo has too much stuff to download.

[The Red Guy]

Originally posted by Themanonthemoon
mine is google aswell. Yahoo has too much stuff to download. They provide news too. Google...I'm going to try them.

[is0lized]

about blank :mad:

[conkermaniac]

How about this site? ;)

http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/

[Jei]

haha interesting site conker :biggrin2:

ya, i like fast loading pages too, so that's why i've had google
never tried the about: blank -- clever

BUT now i want to see some news, weather, tv listings, etc instead for my start page. i guess the rest of you use tv or the newspapers for that eh? :D

[Archbob]

I prefer the about: blank

[manni]

I use my own start page. Containing about ten links to sites that I use a lot.

[olle]

I Love my startpage : about:blank
:biggrin2: :chinese2: :confused2 :D :bandit2:

[Akalon]

I use google too :p

[conkermaniac]

Originally posted by manni
I use my own start page. Containing about ten links to sites that I use a lot.

Yep, I do the same. I've created my own start page.

[Archbob]

Originally posted by conkermaniac


Yep, I do the same. I've created my own start page.

I probably should, but that would require effort.

[Jei]

hmm, that is a very good idea -- making a custom start page, it loads off your hard drive so no waiting

my friend recommended this one: C:\WINDOWS\Favorites :D
thought that was a clever idea too.

[Archbob]

About: blank doesn't require any waiting either.

[NFTNet.com]

I use freewebspace.net . This about:blank thing is very popular!!!

[Cyber]

Originally posted by conkermaniac
How about this site? ;)

http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/

thats acutally a pretty cool site

[Wezz]

about:blank for me also. :) c:\windows\favorites is a good one though!

[trenzterra]

I use http://freewebspace.net/forums/index.php as my homepage. Without adding index.php there could be troubles because it may ask me to download the file index.php

[rainplanet]

I use about: blank too.

I think it's interesting to make a poll about peoples' startpage. Who gonna volunteer to make the poll? Does this board support polling?

[Archbob]

Yeah, this board supports polling.

About: blank is popular because if gives you many options on where to go afterwards and never gives you the 404 error.

[Jei]

should i start a poll now instead? :D