What is a good home page?

[Bleedin Thumb]

Hi folks, I've been using optus as my home page for a while now but they have recently "upgraded" their site so now it takes forever to open because it has all this "entertainment"/ "multimedia" garbage that I dont need and dont want.

OK call me old fashioned...........

when I click on that e symbol I just want to see maybe a few news headlines, a bit of weather...maybe....hell I can look out of the window for that, you know, I don't need the latest film clip from Britney frigging Spears flashing in my face or real time stock market reports.............

I'm more a cuppa tea and a Bex sorta guy....... any suggestions? What are you using?

[Wood Butcher]

My home page is google.com.au mainly because it is quick to load and most of the time (except when I am online here) I am looking for some info on the web anyway.

[masoth]

Well, I use 'about blank' which displays nothing other than a clean page, and then open (usually) three forum sites before getting to the reason I'm sitting. The weather, date and time are in the task bar, and I want nothing else.
Pop-ups are blocked, also because I prefer to control what I see.

soth

[Shedhand]

www.abc.net.au/news

[ptc]

Blank page it's quicker.

[Terry B]

I use http://www.smh.com.au/
It loads reasonably fast and has the news on it. Doh:D

[fred.n]

google.com.au

[Gra]

Your looking at my favorite homepage...

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Hi folks, I've been using optus as my home page for a while now but they have recently "upgraded" their site so now it takes forever to open because it has all this "entertainment"/ "multimedia" garbage that I dont need and dont want.

OK call me old fashioned...........

I would, but I know exactly where you're coming from 'cos I'm in the same boat. :((

Gra got it right... This (http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/index.php?) is my new home page, 'cos in any browsing session it is normally my first port of call anyway. :D

[Big Shed]

I use Google as I use Gmail and I can also add any other news or other service to it.

I have ABC News and other bits and pieces as well as my Gmail inbox which updates automatically,

[Article99]

Make one for yourself. A home page can also be a local HTML document. Have a few news feeds on it and perhaps a java applet pulling weather from somewhere. Whatever you like. :2tsup:

[Honorary Bloke]

I like to use Reuters as a home page. That way I can at least see if the world blew up before puttering off to here and elsewhere. :rolleyes:

[bsrlee]

I use 'blank' as a home page - its easy to re-set if some dodgy site tries to re-direct your home page to their ad-farm.

Yahoo has a 'reasonable' home page facility - you just add or remove junk as YOU want making a semi-custom page.

IE7 is a PITA with blank page tho' - keeps trying to load it from the 'Net for a minute or more where Firefox just goes to blank in a second, just like IE6 used to. Come to think of it, IE7 is also a PITA when you try to shut it down too - seems to take forever:~

[Grunt]

You can now configure your Google page to have feeds from The Age, SMH etc, plus the weather etc.

Pretty quick to load.

[journeyman Mick]

I use blank, then come straight here. If I want to know what the weather is doing I look out the window, if I want to know what it's going to do I either consult my old bone fractures :rolleyes: or I go here (http://www.bom.gov.au/). If anything really catastrophic and earth shattering has happened (beer strike or the outlawing of woodwork) I'll hear it here soon enough.

Mick

[Bleedin Thumb]

OK seems blank or google so far.

It would just feel way too tragic to have this place as my home page - I need to be one click removed from such .

I might give google a go ( that even sounds good) as having a blank screen appear in the morning may be too confusing for my poor addled brain.


Cheers

[journeyman Mick]

Bleedin',
either of those would be far preferable IMHO to having some news based site as a home page. Years ago I decided to use a clock radio to wake up as I thought some soothing music would be a good way to start the day. I used to get the 5am news though and starting the day to the latest world wide carnage was actually worse than the raucous noise the alarm used to make. Enough crap happening during the day to send the stress levels up without starting with bombings in the middle east etc.

Mick

[Bleedin Thumb]

Yes some years back I had the alarm clock set to Allan Jones in the morning with the clock on the other side of the room. That worked - I had to get up just to turn him off but found it was a real shytty way to start the day.

[forunna]

add another vote for Google here.
I usually want to search for something otherwise I jsut go straight to a bookmark before anything is showing. (dialup gives plenty of time to do that)

[NCArcher]

BT, my home page is ninemsn.com.au
Can quickly scan the headlines, check the weather report and click on anything that looks interesting. The work computers are set to this as well.

[Stuart]

I always use blank, and have a google toolbar. If I want to search, why go to google's actual page.

[Pat]

Gooooogle, then hit Favourites for some WW board :roll:

[Bleedin Thumb]

Thanks one & all, I have gone the blank page for now, can't get any faster than that, but it will take a bit to get used to IE whats happened to the screen?

I might miss Britney just a bit though.