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The Ideal Homepage

Homepage Startup

By Catalin Bocanu, Web News Editor

5th of April 2008, 11:41 GMT

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By using the browser Favorites menu or a common bookmark manager, the time consumed to navigate to a certain URL could be a lot for a big number

of stored links. In order to simplify the Internet navigation process and to gain more time and an increased accessibility to navigate to certain websites, you can use visual solutions.

Homepage Startup is a website that allows you to create a personal page containing your favorite websites organized in a visual manner. Practically, your bookmarks will appear as a collection of boxes displaying the websites thumbnails corresponding to all valid URL links. You are allowed to have multiple collections of links corresponding to a tabbed navigation menu.

The default number of boxes is 12, but the homepage appearance can be easily customized by creating an account. If you want to automatically log in every time you navigate to Homepage Startup website, the web browser must have cookies enabled and set with an undetermined lifetime. While you are logged in, certain features of the homepage can be modified such as the number of boxes, background color and more.

The page defined on Homepage Startup can be accessed from any computer with an URL having the next structure:

CODE

http://loginname.homepagestartup.com

As a consequence, you can set it as the default browser homepage or share it with other people. The entire system is AJAX-based and as a consequence all of the users' actions take place without the reloading of the page. In your homepage there is integrated a search facility that by default uses Google search engine. The default search engine can be changed by selecting the desired icon from a dropdown menu. The available search engines are: Google Search, MSN Search, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com Search, Wikipedia English, Yahoo! Answers and Answers.com.

The modality of organizing favorite websites on a homepage that permits the navigation in a visual manner will save you
a lot of time and will improve your browsing experience.

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User opinions:

Comment #1 by: Jason on 05 Apr 2008, 22:54 GMT	reply to this comment
The technology of the site is cool however I still think that JingleTree.com is far superior. You can't customize Jingletree but you also don't need to log-in and you can get a ton of info quick.

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