>> -----Original Message-----
>> Barry Lee Brisco
>> My feeling is that next year, "portals" will be forgotten
>
>This raises a question in my mind. Ever since I started doing web
>stuff, about 5 years now, I've done a fair amount of fiddling around
>with my own start-up/home page. It's now about 750 lines of HTML,
>style sheets, and JavaScript, 600 links, all fitting into a single
>non-scrolling, non-frame page. It includes such things as a pull-
>down menu of 150 comic strips (Alley Oop to Ziggy), control panels
>for my ISDN LAN modem, 200-CD changer, and home security system,
>indices into my Memex, clock, calendar, etc. etc. Some parts of it
>are generated dynamically by CGI code that goes out to get stock
>prices, weather, and headlines. Other stuff is downloaded overnight
>automatically, things like stats from several of my web sites and
>various cartoons like Calvin & Hobbs, Doonsbury, User Friendly
>(Btw, I download just the image files of these, not the ads and
>other cruft around them, and display them double size).
>
>Basically, it's my own private portal, with infinite customization.
>Yahoo, Excite, and the others seem to me to be the same kind of thing,
>but for people who don't want to do the work.
>
>Do other people on this list do their own home page like this, or just
>use one of the commercial portals or start-up pages?
Bob, your comments are well taken. Last year in Boardwatch magazine, John
Dvorak wrote a column echoing your sentiments. It's trivial to create your
own personal "portal", though admitedly not everyone will do this. Yours
sounds rather elaborate, but a simple one that is just a list of links is
nothing to do.
But essentally, your bookmark list is your "portal". It's just a set of
links that you like. Basically that's what most portals are, a set of links
with a few other functions that usually aren't of much use to most people.
IMO.
Barry
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Barry Lee Brisco <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Design & Development - Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
Web portfolio at <http://www.ToTheWeb.com/portfolio.html>
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