Home Page?

prcscct · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: Home Page?

More advice needed. I've been using Yahoo as a home page for years. Now however they are dropping content left and right, probably because of non-renewed contracts with the news providers/advertisers.

What I want is a home page where you can customize it with many different sources of news content, sports content (hopefully Premier League also which my Yahoo does not offer), worldwide weather, world stock exchanges, and other misc content....all in a nice compact package that is easy to navigate and view.

Appreciate any suggestions for good sources/sites others have found and like. Thanks. Pete Cheers

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buksida · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject:

My home page opens up onto this forum naturally!

I use news.google.com for a general news source combined with a few choice RSS feeds.

Windows Vista does a lot of this stuff, it has a side bar function that allows you to add components such as weather, forex, newsfeeds, sports updates etc.

Will be interesting to see what others use.
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chelsea · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject:

Pete, I do not think that you can go much past the http://www.bbc.co.uk site, has local and world sections, all the sport that you want, and most of what you have said you are looking for.

I suppose that you can look at say CNN or something like that for news, but cant pass comment on it as I have never used it
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prcscct · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject:

I'm playing with BBC now, we'll see how it goes. CNN I've tried and it takes ages to load. They use a lot of photos and other 'slow' loading things. As of this moment, BBC seems much faster. Pete Cheers

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caller · Ace Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1959 Location: Londonistan

I use the BBC sites and have a skim through them before getting on to the interesting stuff - unless something catches my fancy!
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redzonerocker · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:43 am Post subject: homepage

you might want to try this one www.delluk.myway.com/
i have been using it for a few years now & its excellent for news, sport, weather etc.
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webmaster · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:19 am Post subject:

Try Google any country domains will do (com, co.uk, etc).

https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=http://www.google.com/&hl=en

If you have an account with them (i.e adsense, gmail, webmaster, beta tester, etc) first login.

When you visit the site, use the menus and get to the Reader section, then, you will be prompted to customise the page (home page) with all the features that Google has to offer (news, sports, currencies, etc).

It takes a bit organising in the beginning but it's free and you can login from any computer and your home page is there.
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buksida · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject:

This has got the cogs turning now, can we have a list of what you'd like on a local, say Hua Hin based home page?

I'd have the following:

Local news feeds
Regional news feeds
Time and Date in select countries
Local weather report
Exchange rates
Links to useful related sites
Latest topics on local forum
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prcscct · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject:

OK, here we go, soup to nuts in addition to the above. Then you have a one-stop-shop that will keep everyone up to date on everything:

Reuters World News+Business+Sports+Internet

BBC World Edition+Sports

AP World News+Sports+Asia

AFP "/"/" + World Soccer

CNN

Guardian

Tech Web

AFP Technology.

A lead in line with the top 3-4 topics in each sparks interest. Pete Cheers

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Norseman · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject:

Yup Buksi - spot on.
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buksida · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject:

Keep going with them .... could be something in the pipeline here, as long as all of the news resources have RSS feeds it can be done.
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prcscct · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject:

buksida · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject:

RSS is just a syndicated news feed, it actually stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication and is a format for delivering regularly changing web content.

There is a feed on HHAD's homepage showing the latest topics on the forum, its all automatic and updates itself every time something new is posted.

Yahoo, Google and the like get paid through ads in their search results so they allow users to add feeds to customise their "home pages".

A lot of news sites actually don't run content and just syndicate it from others, the most successful one I know of is www.drudgereport.com.

All major news sources have their own feeds (I don't count Fox as "news"!) so building a local one with a combination of them shouldn't be too difficult.

The difficult bit is actually getting local news as any form of reporting or journalism seems to be frowned upon in Hua Hin so all we have are a bunch of glossy advertorials.
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