Posted: 11/3/2009 12:10:25 PM EDT
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I've been thinking of constructing a webpage, to live on my own file server, that loads when I bring up a browser, automatically.
I want it to have all the links I normally use in the course of a day online, weather, news, financial news, links to trading accounts, forums, including this one, various e-mail addresses (webmail interfaces), etc. I have no intentions of sharing this webpage, or making it available online, more than anything else I want an easier, quicker alternative to browser bookmark and favorite list functions. Getting the links together and posted on the webpage would be the easy part. My question involves something else, the actual display on my private page of important information, like a thumbnail of the US radar overview, the US cloud cover, a graph or near realtime readout of major stock indicies, the price of certain equities or commodities, an atomic timeclock readout, that sort of thing. My questions are as follows: 1. Is this illegal or frowned upon by the websites that publicly display this data? Wil they be upset with me using their data this way, and will they attempt to block me from using it, legally or using technology? I'm not looking to break any rules here, in fact, just the opposite, I want to find out what the rules are so I can avoid breaking them. 2. If they usually don't care about this type of activity, how difficult is it, codewise, to get such displays onto a website that lives only on my home network? 3. Are there tiny bits of code floating around the free download websites that accomplish this, from a black box perspective, for use by people who know how to cut and paste, construct a simple website, but who really don't understand code well enough to animate something like this line by line from scratch? 4. Are there websites that display this type data who actively encourage people to link to it, and provide tools to ease the process of doing so? 5. What are the chances that code downloaded from recognized repositories like C-net and Download.com would contain easter-eggs, bits of code that could damage my compters, funnel private info elsewhere, or open doors in my network security provisions? 6. Would a standard firewall configuration, namely browsers allowed to use port 80, accomplish this, or will I need special firewall rulesets to get the job done? Thanks for any help you can offer. |
| I know that you said you wanted a "quicker" alternative than bookmarks, but what I do in Firefox is build a bookmarks folder with all of the websites that I frequent, and then when I open Firefox, I use the 'Open All in Tabs' feature and it opens them all at the same time. Not sure if that's what you're looking for or not, but it works great for me. |
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I know that you said you wanted a "quicker" alternative than bookmarks, but what I do in Firefox is build a bookmarks folder with all of the websites that I frequent, and then when I open Firefox, I use the 'Open All in Tabs' feature and it opens them all at the same time. Not sure if that's what you're looking for or not, but it works great for me. That is prob your best bet... There is also a "most visited" folder in the toolbar you could most likely do the same for too.. since you check the same websites all the time. |
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You want a page that has little windows onto all your favorite sites? Or you want a page with links to all your sites?
The first could be done easy with iframes. I'm not going to do it for you, but you can google "iframe example" to see how it's done. You just need to do a little html work, which is very easy coding. The second could be done with just easy html. Google "href example". |