Posted on 03/21/2021 2:27:01 PM PDT by poconopundit
How much private information are you giving to the deep state that way?
How is this better than just using “bookmarks” in Firefox?
FRiends,
I built a personal homepage for myself, and I figured there may be a few FReepers out there who would like to have this capability, especially if it’s easy to update.
Creating this was a learning experience for me, especially figuring out the Javascript necessary to switch between Google and Duckduckgo.
I originally played with adding a cookie, but opted instead to open a new web page every time you use search from this homepage. That way, the homepage remains one of your tabs (until you delete it). And it also means you can keep the last keywords you searched for, just in case you want to modify the search or change the search engine on the fly.
BTT for later.
Well, since this page lives on your laptop, it makes a little harder for private information to be extracted since your personal links do not go through the search engines.
I'm currently using the Firefox addon Group Speed Dial as my home page, which is a similar idea and I love it, but it won't accommodate as many links as yours does.
It’s a personal choice. I use the Firebox bookmarks to find links for short term needs. Links I use every day I move to my private page.
Firebox also has a left-side tree structure for links. I agree, this is another way to go.
I have Chrome browser with the DDG extension, combined with Adblock. I’ll try it l8tr..
I just got a 8x10 envelope and letter from some company who said they were working with Google to be for the web like Nielsen is to tv.
inside was a crisp dollar bill, it said take a survey to see if eligible and get a 5$ amazon gift card, and if eligible another 20$, install their modem/router and an app on your cel phone get $200 and then $16 per month for every household member who also puts the app on their phone.
Sounds like a Great Idea.. Not
I have been very frustrated when trying to create a website of simple links with logos. Lists of links by topic. This looks like an easy way to do that. Am I correct?
PP, thanks for the info. Perhaps one day, we’ll get
around to it in working on a home page.
Bookmark to try later
I just tried to look for HTML examples to point you to, but could find absolutely none.
Take a look at this page: https://start.me/start/us/startpage
I think this may be what you are looking for. Unfortunately, when search for the source code, you can’t find it because the author is trying to protect his code by hiding it somewhere through the use of scripts.
Let me help you develop an example of what you are looking for.
But first, can you point me to a page that does what you want it do? Or create something in Word or PowerPoint or Excel and send to me.
And you say “logo”, but company logos are of various shapes. If you use an icon or symbol, it will be look much nicer on your page. But either way will work.
Will the text go on the bottom of the icon or to the side?
Let me know.
Sounds like a Great Idea.. Not. ...
I get calls from India every day with good deals or IRS threats of arrest if I don’t send money. Been hacked a few times.
When I see GOOGLE I see CIA deceit.
Bump to the top
Start page? In the era of tabbed browsers?
Try Qwant or some of the lesser-known engines. Qwant is so good, I have been using it on a daily basis for months.
Never heard of Qwant, but I checked it out and agree with you. On first glance it definitely appears better than Duckduckgo.
It’s also more graphically appealing than both Google and Duckduckgo.
As for Google, I would ask: are you in business? If so, it’s important that your company have a presence on Google because that’s what 90% of searches in North America use.
Apart from its political bias, Google sets a valuable standard of excellence in search quality and search security. And it’s certain that Bing, DDGo, Qwant and the rest of the search engines use Google search as their main source of search results in the English language — then modify those results to suit their target audience or their own agenda.
But I like Qwant. It deserves to be given more attention, so perhaps I’ll make that available in this homepage as a substitute for Duckduckgo.
I think the Deep State has an interest in seeing a not-so- professional search engine like Duckduckgo being available.
On the same question you raised, I have coded a change to the 6th column in myhomepage that shows the links appearing as logos (or icons).
Here's the sample page for that.
To make that work, you need to find all the icons and insert them into the icons folder. Then the width attribute in the img element needs to be set to 120px or whatever your choice is.
Here's the code which you can drop in as a replacement to Column 6:
<!-- Column 6 -->
<div class="column">
<h4>Travel</h4>
<a href=https://www.orbitz.com/>
<img width=120 title="Orbitz Travel"
src=icons/orbitz_icon.jpg>
<a href=https://www.southwest.com/>
<img width=120 title="Southwest Airlines"
src=icons/southwest_icon.jpg>
<a href=https://us.megabus.com/>
<img width=120 title="Megabus bus lines"
src=icons/megabus_icon.jpg>
</a><!-- closing anchor -->
</div>
Note, I added the "title" attribute which enables a mouse-over text description of the link just in case the logo doesn't explain itself. Of course, the use of the "title" attribute is optional.
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