> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Epstein
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 2:49 PM
> I remember creating a similar page about 2 or 3 years ago that
> ... was all customized and fancy and i LOVED it...
>
> unfortunately, every friend i showed it too said -- "that's just too
> confusing..." or "I don't understand what all of that stuff is?"
>
> nowadays i just use my.yahoo mostly for convenience.
I don't understand why you gave up your own page. Just because your
friends didn't understand intuitively how to use it? Hey, I know
a fair amount about creating pages that the untutored find easy
to use, and I didn't use any of those tricks for my own home page.
It's mine, not intended for anyone else to use or understand. Even
my wife, on the same home LAN, has her own home page.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Lee Brisco
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 12:25 PM
>
> ... Last year in Boardwatch magazine, John
> Dvorak wrote a column echoing your sentiments. ...
In fact, I took a bunch of links that Dvorak had in his own "portal page"
and put most of them into mine. He had them formatted as a table, with
descriptive header and list of links in each cell. I converted each cell
into a pull-down list with the header as the selected item, so instead of
a rather bulky table, I have a compact 4x5 array of menus.
> But essentally, your bookmark list is your "portal". It's just a set of
> links that you like.
So the browser companies should have the initial home page be a nicely-
formatted version of the contents of your bookmark set. No, wait, they
are also selling portals, aren't they? In fact, it sounds like AOL was
mostly buying Netscape's portal site, not their browser business.
> 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.
Really? I would think things like current headlines, weather, stock
prices, television schedules, etc -- stuff that changes all the time --
would be the parts of a portal that are of most use.
Btw, I just added a 320x240 live video picture from an outdoor color
camera, plus sound, to my home page. Now I can see when a cat wants to
be let in. Next will be live weather data from a cute little rooftop
weather station that I just bought.
Bob Munck
Mill Creek Systems LC
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