What?
Google.com

Why?
Spend most of my time searching for stuff and it's faster than most of the "portals".

What?
www.thedvdforums.com :blush:

Why?
It usually has all the latest movie news, DVD news in one forum. Others have the latest computing music, tv... everything i could ever want. The people seem ok and for DVD trading its awsome :)

Google.
Mainly because it is convenient and I am too lazy to bother changing!:)

Sheffield Forum.

Because I'm sad!:lol:

What?
about:mozilla

Why?
Internet Explorer loads lightning fast with a blue background.
(XP Tweak tip)
I suspect google would have the same effect though.

about:blank

This is quite simply because I never want the same website every time. Instead I have several common links in the "Links" toolbar and then use the favourites menu for other sites.

I also have the Google and Altavista toolbars installed, so if I want to search the web, I can use those as soon as my browser starts up - so no need to set my home page to Google...

:)

Thanks Tony! I was about to post thinking I'd be unique having the blank page as my homepage! The main reason I have it as blank is because I often open multiple windows and loading a website I don't need every time is pointless. I too have a links bar set up with my most visited/useful sites on.

Freeserve

why because its my ISP and its clean ;)

What?
Whatever I was looking at in my last browser session.

Why?
I want to continue reading the information, or I was just too lazy to close the tabs last time.

Originally posted by Hodge
What?
Whatever I was looking at in my last browser session.

Why?
I want to continue reading the information, or I was just too lazy to close the tabs last time.

Do you use Avant browser too then?

www.weather.com
I'm obsessed with the weather. I can't leave the house without checking it out every morning. I have to see the local radar for signs of rain, what the temperature is going to be, humidity etc.
I gauge my whole day on what the weather is going to be like. Do I park in the shady spot at the back of the carpark or near the front door of work?
Now that's sad!

iVillage, cos I'm a woman

my homepage is my first website.

Moon

Originally posted by t020
Do you use Avant browser too then?

No mate - either Opera, or Mozilla Firebird. Been a big fan of Opera for a few years now, and Mozilla Firebird is also coming along pretty well

BBC News

just check out whats going on before going to other pages

What...
christopher-hill.com (http://www.christopher-hill.com)
Why...
It is my own portal into the intermeweb. Bit slow at the moment though because my server is downloading 190 episodes of Seinfeld :lol:

Sheffield, Weather Forecast from Online weather.com.

Don't know why 'cos I just look out of the window to see if it's raining!

Can I be another vote for Google please

I always want to go somewhere else and it is a great place to start out from.

I've got myyahoo! as my homepage. Over the past couple of months it has just got better and better.

I noticed on another thread that Google do a personal homepage now too.

MSN also have a nifty looking one. For the meantime I'm sticking with Yahoo! as I know where everything is and it seems the fierce competition between the big players is going to keep on benefiting us.

Does anyone have any other homepages worth recommending?

(ahem... apart from SheffieldForum of course)

I have www.google.co.uk as my home page, cos I use Google more than any other search engine.

Yeh.

about:blank

*sigh*, that "your message is too short" warning is getting on my ****.

Lately its been MSN, I dont know why, as I never use it, but i suppose its just a typical homepage.

Before that I used to have Tiscali as my homapage.

I used to have a homepage with links on that someone created for me, but don't bother now...

Now I have TUTV portal - someone has a domain of TUTV.co.uk, and I have some links on therethat I regularly use - www.tutv.co.uk; then have the main sites I use as my favourites.

:)

I have never had one before but have just added one.

it is a Yahoo group i set up a couple of years ago but have since handed on because I could no longer be bothered to give it proper attention.

It currently has over 1500 members. Not bad.

Mine is Google

Then I can search for whatever I want, every other website is in my "bookmark"

Mines Yahoo

Reminds me to check my email.............

My home page is the skynews site, I like to get up in the morning and have five mins reading the news with a cup of hot choccy. Its better than mooching up to the shop to buy a paper
:thumbsup:

One of the sites that I help to run, as it reminds me to check on things at least once a day. :hihi:

Sheffield Forum is my homepage :blush: 'Cos I'm never away for very long :blush: :blush:

http://www.google.com/ig

Why, well take a look and see!

http://localserver.lan/ (the joys of running your own DNS server;)).

Contains direct links to many sites & domains that I need regular access to (saves me having a load of bokmarks).

I have a page I wrote myself with all of my most used links, search boxes for things I use the most (Google, Amazon, Ebay) and several boxes showing RSS feeds from common news sites I look at (The Register, Slashdot, BBC news etc).

Oh, and a couple of the traffic pics from the council website so I can see what traffic is like near work for when I go home.

It's a bit cluttered but it does the job: http://img129.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop9rc.gif

Ooh, get me! :thumbsup:

http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/
why? because its local news and local footie...:D

Currently Google, but I'm tinkering with some portal software that I might try and develop semi-commercially.

Within a few weeks (I hope) I might change it to the portal so I can give the software some 'clog'. :)

Why Google - it loads up quickly and I often end up searching for soemthing - or just coming straight here.

Joe

Used to be google.com, but since getting Firefox and having a Google search bar always available I've just switched to about:blank.

Originally posted by RichD
...about:blank.

Isn't that some kind of spyware?

Originally posted by Deavon
Isn't that some kind of spyware?

Nah,

It's literally just a blank page.

Although...it MIGHT be a piece of spyware cunningly disguised as a blank page... ;)

It's Friday, time to spread soem Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt! :D



Joe

I use http://www.google.com/ig it's set up for my bookmarks, and all the other stuff I use. Including BBC news and a few other RSS feeds.

I used to use a page with lots of links on, however that looked cluttered - now I use the TUTV Portal that a friend started-up, along with my bookmarks. (http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b157/kentboy/tutvportal.jpg)

Originally posted by JoeP
Nah,

It's literally just a blank page.

Although...it MIGHT be a piece of spyware cunningly disguised as a blank page... ;)


Honestly! Sometimes I don't know wether I'm coming or going on here.

I googled it and got this result (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DVXA,DVXA:2005-19,DVXA:en&q=about%3Ablank)

Are google suggesting it's dangerous on purpose because it's a rival search engine?

Fear and doubt prevail.:suspect:

Originally posted by Deavon
Honestly! Sometimes I don't know wether I'm coming or going on here.

I googled it and got this result (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DVXA,DVXA:2005-19,DVXA:en&q=about%3Ablank)

Are google suggesting it's dangerous on purpose because it's a rival search engine?

Fear and doubt prevail.:suspect:

The about: blank Home Page CAN be hijacked by spyware to point to a dodgy search page.

Just as some web sites will change your Hoem Page without asking, so the about:blank one can be subverted as well.

But the legitimate use of about:blank to produce a blank home page is perfectly OK.

And I just LOVE to wind people up on a Firday evening. :D

Joe

Mine is currently www.sheffieldforum.co.uk on account of the fact I got kicked off my previous home site and the other site I had started to frequent closed down.

So there ya go - another sad person to add to the list.

Dragon

Mine is Sky News (http://www.sky.com/skynews/home) . I just like to know what's happening in the UK and around the world. I then navigate from my favourites, of which The Forum (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/?s=) is usually my first port of call.

Google - only coz i daren't make it SheffieldForum ;)

Originally posted by Strix
Google - only coz i daren't make it SheffieldForum ;)

:confused: Would Mr strix not approve? :confused:

about:offlineinformation

Dunno why...just because im random!

Mine's www.badmothersclub.com

..... because I am and I need ideas for fresh badness to wreak on my kids.

Originally posted by Draggletail
:confused: Would Mr strix not approve? :confused:
Once in a blue moon I manage to get online and not visit here ;)

Not very often though :(

If my home page was the forum, that would finish me off!!! :P

google....

cos i can then go straight to where i want by typing in either "kelvin flats" or "noddy holder"!:hihi:

Originally posted by scaramanga
What?
www.thedvdforums.com :blush:

Why?
It usually has all the latest movie news, DVD news in one forum. Others have the latest computing music, tv... everything i could ever want. The people seem ok and for DVD trading its awsome :)

mine used to be that. I'm lazy and mine is Tiscali. Will change it back to hungersite.com now I think on it.

What: ntlworld.com

Why: there my isp and I can find out wahts been happening

Originally posted by Zinger549
What: ntlworld.com

Why: there my isp and I can find out wahts been happening

Why would anyone want to keep up-to-date with that dreadful ISP???

:)

Originally posted by kentboy119
Why would anyone want to keep up-to-date with that dreadful ISP???

:)

I ment up to date with the news and ntl arnt that bad

http://www.google.com/ig

cos i use it the most for uni etc, and now its personalised with gmail on and a quote of the day hehe