MTI562 Week 4: Research Question – What tool should I use to build an internet start page for our students?

Article 1: Make Your Own Beautiful Customized Start Page

By Adam Dachis

Adam provides information about using deviantART’s download and editing the index.html to make an internet start page.

Article 2: How to Build your Custom Browser Start Page

By Tina Sieber

Tina outlines her need for her own start page and recommends the use of service called Awesomestart http://awesomestart.com/ to make an internet start page, or ‘yourminis’ to create a desktop of bookmarks (though that service seems to have been bought out by Aol and no longer functions). Her favorite is Pageflakes an Ajax homepage bought out by LifeUniverse.

Conclusion

I decided to go with Protopage (http://protopage.com/) which is still around after a good number of years, is easy to set up, meets all our needs and doesn’t require the installation of special apps and gizmos.

Bibliography

Dachis, Adam. "Make Your Own Beautiful, Customized Browser Start Page." Lifehacker. Lifehacker.com, 26 Jan. 2011. Web. 17 Oct. 2015.

Sieber, Tina. "How To Build Your Custom Browser Start Page."MakeUseOf. Makeuseof.com, 7 May 2008. Web. 17 Oct. 2015.