I've had an icon for my own page with tetris and all my own links for a while because the actual page is on my hard drive, but for other people it was harder - so I made a page called "startpage.html" with linked screenshots for 9 common sites that we (there are 4 of us) commonly go to. It loads fast because it doesn't have to get any content from the web except our gmail accounts and forecastfox. It's just marked "Firefox" on the desktop so everyone thinks they're just launching the browser rather than some odd page they don't understand.
You can make several of these pages if you want different ones for different members of the household.
My version of it looks like this:
Here's a genericised copy of the code:
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Startpage</title>
<link rel="Shortcut Icon" type="image/ico" href="pic.ico.png" />
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://www.link.com"><img src="pic.png" />
<a href="http://www.link.com"><img src="pic.png" />
<a href="http://www.link.com"><img src="pic.png" />
<a href="http://www.link.com"><img src="pic.png" />
<a href="http://www.link.com"><img src="pic.png" />
<a href="http://www.link.com"><img src="pic.png" />
<a href="http://www.link.com"><img src="pic.png" />
<a href="http://www.link.com"><img src="pic.png" />
<a href="http://www.link.com"><img src="pic.png" />
</body>
</html>Maybe I'm a fuss-pot for bothering to do this, but it solves an issue for my particular household and makes life a teensy bit easier for us, so I thought I'd share it in case anyone else is needing a similar solution...
Cheers,
Steve
