After probably four or five years of having the same start page I took half a day to overhaul it.
Other than a handful of the links on the original version, 95% of the use I'd get out of it was the integrated Google, Dictionary, and IMDB search fields. For the new version I had several ideas. One was using tabs for various link categories, another was integrating more search fields and making it streamlined, and the third was displaying a random image. The latter two are what I went with in this new version.
There are 16 buttons across the top with Google selected by default. Whatever button is selected is what the search field will post to and if you CTRL+Click on one of the buttons it'll take you to that site. The whole thing is pretty much driven by javascript. On load, the page will randomly select an image out of a collection and set it as the background image. It cookies both the background image and search field for 1 day to keep it from resetting every page load. I've included a small refresh button at the bottom left which will clear the cookie, default the search engine back to Google, and randomly pick another background image.
I haven't tested it out thoroughly in browsers other than FF, but I will when I get a chance. The framework primarily loads PNG 24 images which IE 6 doesn't support without some trickery. But since I'm the only one who will likely use this I won't bother with older browsers as much.
If I'm bored or itching to play around for a bit I'll add a link library to the page arranged by category.
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ColdCourse
This is a pretty nice URL Rewriter for CF that supports MVC frameworks. I had a bit of trouble getting it to work initially only to find out the ISAPI Rewrite script I was using was for the wrong version. I'm curious to do some load testing to see what kind of overhead this script has.
ColdCourse
This is a pretty nice URL Rewriter for CF that supports MVC frameworks. I had a bit of trouble getting it to work initially only to find out the ISAPI Rewrite script I was using was for the wrong version. I'm curious to do some load testing to see what kind of overhead this script has.
