Post Your Custom Startpage

The_Doctor · 18-10-2008, 02:04 PM

Inspired from this post: http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/5...-post8116.html

Here is mine,

So whats yours?

vickystormo · 22-10-2008, 08:18 AM

By startpage do you mean homepage??

The_Doctor · 22-10-2008, 08:18 AM

Yeah.

vickystormo · 22-10-2008, 08:25 AM

Thats fine...its youtube...but how can you customise your homepage...can you tell me how you did it??And can it be done in Google Chrome?

Ayeffen · 22-10-2008, 11:26 AM

Here's mine:

The_Doctor · 22-10-2008, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vickystormo

Thats fine...its youtube...but how can you customise your homepage...can you tell me how you did it??And can it be done in Google Chrome?

You can either do what Mr A & I did above and make one using html, or you could use something like AwesomeStart.com they all work with any browser.

Mine is stored locally so I opened it in firefox then set it as homepage.

vickystormo · 22-10-2008, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Doctor

You can either do what Mr A & I did above and make one using html, or you could use something like AwesomeStart.com they all work with any browser.

Mine is stored locally so I opened it in firefox then set it as homepage.

I liked what I saw but it does not have Google Chrome.

vickystormo · 22-10-2008, 04:10 PM

I really want to do it the way Mr.A has done it.I want to put my custom image on it and put the links in the whole page.

The_Doctor · 22-10-2008, 07:23 PM

You don't actually need a certain browser for anything. You can just make one and "set as homepage" in your browsers options.

vickystormo · 22-10-2008, 07:38 PM

How can I just 'make one'.
I am not asking about AwesomeStart.I want to know how Mr.A did it. It looks really cool.

Ayeffen · 23-10-2008, 02:11 PM

Thanks.

I made it using XHTML and CSS in a basic text editor along with images I put together in Photoshop. You can open html documents in any browser and set it as your homepage.

As Steve mentioned, you can open the same html document in all sorts of browsers. I.e. Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera without issues, usually.

If you do choose to use AwesomeStart, any documents you download "for" Firefox or "for" IE, will work in Chrome just as well I should think. It might be because web documents tend to render slightly differently from browser to browser, so the code itself might reflect that. I'd give it a try anyway.

Making one like mine will involve books and learning markup languages as well as using a few features on Photoshop or similar image editors.

Aaron · 23-10-2008, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr A

As Steve mentioned, you can open the same html document in all sorts of browsers. I.e. Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera without issues, usually.

... yeah, sure.

Ayeffen · 23-10-2008, 02:20 PM

Ha.

Well I just meant the opening of the file, rather than it looking fine.

I'd imagine that AwesomeStart thingies have conditional comments involved so that they render correctly in the different browsers. I actually haven't tried testing anything in Chrome yet... I should get round to it.

Do things often break in Chrome, Aaron?

Aaron · 23-10-2008, 02:24 PM

Not really, no. It's based on WebKit, so it's just like Safari. I ran into some issues with it (and Safari) yesterday when using negative text-indent, but that was my own fault for specifying a huge number. WebKit doesn't like extremes, it seems.

I don't really bother to test in Chrome (no Mac version is available anyway, which doesn't help). The results I see in Safari are good enough.

Lauren · 25-10-2008, 09:43 PM

Gears of War Start Page

RobRsafc · 26-10-2008, 06:03 PM

How do you make these?

Lishman · 26-10-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Lauren

Gears of War Start Page

oh dear god

18-10-2008, 02:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
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23-10-2008, 02:11 PM	#11 (permalink)
Ayeffen EA Veteran Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: London, England Age: 19 Gender: Male Posts: 20,314 Blog Entries: 2	Thanks. I made it using XHTML and CSS in a basic text editor along with images I put together in Photoshop. You can open html documents in any browser and set it as your homepage. As Steve mentioned, you can open the same html document in all sorts of browsers. I.e. Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera without issues, usually. If you do choose to use AwesomeStart, any documents you download "for" Firefox or "for" IE, will work in Chrome just as well I should think. It might be because web documents tend to render slightly differently from browser to browser, so the code itself might reflect that. I'd give it a try anyway. Making one like mine will involve books and learning markup languages as well as using a few features on Photoshop or similar image editors. __________________ Twitter \| Ayeffen.co.uk \| deviantArt

23-10-2008, 02:20 PM	#13 (permalink)
Ayeffen EA Veteran Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: London, England Age: 19 Gender: Male Posts: 20,314 Blog Entries: 2	Ha. Well I just meant the opening of the file, rather than it looking fine. I'd imagine that AwesomeStart thingies have conditional comments involved so that they render correctly in the different browsers. I actually haven't tried testing anything in Chrome yet... I should get round to it. Do things often break in Chrome, Aaron? __________________ Twitter \| Ayeffen.co.uk \| deviantArt

23-10-2008, 02:24 PM	#14 (permalink)
Aaron EA Veteran Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 27,982	Not really, no. It's based on WebKit, so it's just like Safari. I ran into some issues with it (and Safari) yesterday when using negative text-indent, but that was my own fault for specifying a huge number. WebKit doesn't like extremes, it seems. I don't really bother to test in Chrome (no Mac version is available anyway, which doesn't help). The results I see in Safari are good enough.

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