I love seeing these! Think it’s given me some ideas for mine, too. I’ve shared mine before but:
It’s a tad sterile right now compared to what I’d probably build more recently, but it features:
It also functions as the page I see when I open a new tab, so it’s super useful as a quick way to get places.
I love seeing all the creativity on display here! Everyone does theirs slightly different so that it suits the individual. It’s almost like the individuality of personal webpages, only moreso, because it’s only meant to be useful for one person.
Here’s the current iteration of mine. It needs a few things added, but I don’t usually touch it for long stretches.
Dark mode (current favorite)
Light mode:
I’ve purposely made it a bit over the top to suit my tastes. I’m also thinking about making it change with the seasons/weather.
I know this is so old, but I am so in love with this, it seems like it could be a good first project for myself! What do you use to host? Man, I have so many ideas lol
no host! just a locally saved file ^^
Mine is really simple: just a clock and some links to pages I like
I have mine on my regular web site in a sub folder, but that’s only because I like to access it at work too. If you’re only using one PC, and don’t need it elsewhere, locally works totally fine.
I was literally today sitting at my desk thinking “I need some way to organize the stuff I look at online every day.”
Thank you so much! This is going to be fun.
Ooh okay, thank you!
I made one! Nothing super complicated yet, but I’m sure I’ll find all sorts of random things to add lol
I decided I wanted something I could access from anywhere, so I made a single page in Neocities with the help of the LCARS CSS: take the conn
Love this!!! I’m a fellow Star Trek fan myself, but I’ve never put together a LCARS layout before. It’s so comfy and nostalgic, even if it isn’t the best in terms of readability.
I got the layout from thelcars.com. my current CSS skills could never, lol.
I love it.
I tried many times to make one, but it never gelled before. However, this thread inspired me, and my new attempt might actually go somewhere for a change: Nosy Cat Go!
OMG I’m having a lightbulb moment! The startpage is the one the browser opens up to when you open it, right? Ohhhhhhh! 
That’s such a cool idea. And everyone’s pages are great. I want one too now. Of course.
That’s the one! Firefox for example shows something useful by default on a new tab. Other browsers can only be told to open a specific page. And it can be tricky to figure out what should be on it! But I’m getting the hang of this at last.
i’m LOVING y’all’s start pages, wow! :D it’s so awesome to see us taking back our attention and digital wayfinding :)
After reading this thread yesterday I started setting up my very own custom startpage. I actually only wanted to set some sections up and then go in later to make a busy, fun design. Mostly with things I don’t know how to do yet, like what some of you have posted.
But then I continued to play and out came this very simple, yet happy design. I am now thinking of re-designing my homepage with something similar.
What I enjoy with a locally saved startpage is that you can do anything you want. Anything.
I’ve been fiddling with it all day yesterday and also today. Adding links, moving things around, etc.
I am currently using an iframe widget from timeanddate.com for the clock and some copy & pasted JS for the date. I want to change that eventually, but have to learn so much more for that.
I also would like to have the greeting change with time of day at the top, so that it says “Good Morning” in the morning, “Good Evening” in the evening, etc. I don’t know how to do that yet, or if this is even possible. But it would be cool if it was.
Anyway, thank you all for the inspiration. I had a fun afternoon setting this up yesterday.
Is that a mini-text editor that saves to local storage? Cool! I should at least add a calendar to my start page. Got the script for that.
It’s just a text box that does not save anything. I would love if it did. I don’t know how to do that, though. Or if it’s even possible. But right now it’s working just fine as it is. All my links open in a new tab, so the start page is always open. Upon refresh, e.g. after changing the HTML or CSS, everything I have typed in the box is still there. Just, of course, when the tab gets closed everything’s gone.
Sure it’s possible! Check out this one for example: https://browserpad.org/ but of course you know best.
