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This is not an update!It's a complete rewrite.
I've been talking about doing a rewrite forever now, and after I noticed this got featured on lifehacker, I finally got to work on this last night. I've borrowed a good bit of *Gocom 's Estacado start page (thanks for using my favorite OSS license, btw.), to ensure some decent increases in userfriendliness (to be honest - I just don't feel like answering any more "how do I add more links?" qestions). No need to know HTML or read some of the various comments that used to be in the file to change links! Yayer!
Yeah, so the entire JS code switched from Mootools to jQuery (imo. the superior framework), and it's a lot cleaner and more organized than before (wasn't hard - it was a mess before).
I've removed the download link from here, because - let's face it - dA isn't meant for software distribution, and I don't feel like I have to go through the hassle of trying to make it cooperate.
Short feature list:
- *new*Unlimited link blocks
- *new*Unlimited links per block
- Google search
- *new*No HTML skills needed to add links
- jQuery dropdown animations on hover
If you want the new version, get it on github:
»Download«
Todo:
- Fix stylesheet for cross-browser good looks
Changelog:
2011.09.12
- Fix searchbar focus, added setting.
2011.04.18
- Added Google Image search
2011.02.20
- Added config file
- Added search engines
- Yahoo
- Wikipedia
- dict.cc
- dict.leo.org
- flickr
- deviantART
- Added setting to enable/disable opening links in new window/tab
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Comments: 291
I was able to figure our most everything I wanted but I got stuck on two things first even though focusSearch=true the omnibar is focused instead. This probably has nothing to do with the html file but probably something to do with chrome or New Tab Redirect. Second the Chrome:// addresses do not work. I thought maybe I messed something up but I tried your original file and they still don't work. so I am not sure what is up with that. any ideas on these things?
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focusSearch is a bit buggy, it really depends on the browser. It does work in Firefox.
As for the chrome:// link, I guess something changed in Chrome. I will take a look at it.
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Okay, so I am lost on editing the index.html file.... How can I create my own Headers and also how do I add my own links under each Header. Everytime I try to make changes using the format shown withing the index.html page itself, My links and headers are not coming out how I want them to. It is almost as if there is another setting somewhere (maybe in a css file?) that tells this page that Header one will have two links, header two will have one link, etc etc.
I want to be able to put how ever many links I want under the first header, and then put how ever many links I want under the second header, etc. Using this is provinf to be a pain in my side! Any help would be appreciated!!
-- Paratrooper Joe --
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I am having trouble making my own Headers with Sub headers for links. My First Header and sub headers (with two links) works just fine. My next header shows up but the Sub header should contain 3 links but it only shows 1 and it attached the next link to the subheader name. Here is the section of code pertaining to the links...:
****BEGIN CODE****
[link] " xml:lang="en" lang="en">
type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.5.min.js">
type="text/javascript" src="js/script.js">
College Links
[link] || My_Edison
[link] ||
Student Services
Banking
[link] || USAA[link] || Chase[link] || Money Network Card
Coconutty
[link] || NG
New Block
[link] || Lol, Wut?
Bananas
[link] || crshd.cc
[link] || rahforum.biz
***END CODE****
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Okay so the above code is all kings of messed up....I am going to try and repost it to see if it will show up correctly...:
Actually, I am not sure how to post the code on this site properly...any ideas?
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I know you comment is like a year old but did you put http:// before each link? maybe try posting the code again and give a screenshot of the page as well.
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Hey-o. I love this!
Is there any way to keep links visible instead of the animation-like hiding? It keeps bouncing when I try to navigate to it, and I'm using it to get to links quickly at work.
Thanks!
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Scratch that--I figured it out. x_x It was much simpler than I thought it would be.
Thanks again! This is wonderful!
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How can I disable the check for //?
If you don't use // in your URL, it;s not a link, but I would like to user callto: and mailto: url's.
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I would also like to add callto: and mailto: URL's
The script checks for // and if not, It's not a URL.
How can I disable that?
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I guess I can make it run several tests, maybe even configurable through the config file. I'll get back to you once it's done, if you're still interested.
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How do you add a picture background? It's in style.css, but I don't know how to do it
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background: url(/folder/image.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
This is for style.css
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Change background to use a picture...
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why the hell on mac i cannot edit index.html using text edit ??? if edit the index with text edit i loose formatting.............
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Prolly because you're using a word processor to edit a plain text file. Use a proper text editor instead.
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This is drop-my-pants awesome. I just have one request. I want to point some of the sub-menu links to internal chrome pages (i.e. chrome://bookmarks/#recent) but there's some trouble with the way your js interprets the url. I can half-way trick it by adding http:// before the internal string but it still drops the following colon (chrome://). Could you change the way your js interprets the urls to be more universal? Maybe a special none url character (*) in the syntax before each new url.
Either way I'm definitely using this hence forth. Thanks!
Steve
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(Hopefully) fixed in ea61ff0 . It should now identify everything containing "://" as a URL and create a link.
It creates a "chrome://" link just fine in Firefox, too lazy to install Chromium for testing purposes right now.
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Works great. Use new revision on desktop, web book and Android tablet.
Have made some layout changes and added a background picture.
Only problem is I want to add date and clock. Have java clock code that does the job but can not add it to index.html because javascript does not know when to stop reading in headings and urls. Any code I add between body tags is read as a header.
Have looked at your code but need to study jquery to figure out how to exit read at some point so 1 line of code can be added in the body to display the date and clock. Any suggestions?
Thank you for the startpage, great work.
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No need to touch the index.html, you can add a clock completely in JS/jQuery: [link]
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Had it working yesterday. Just needed to read your code better/closer. Our code is similar, difference is caused by my choice of layout. Thank you for the files and effort. Think about trying jDigiClock for a little animation.
Thank you, great work.
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Complete noob problem/question here: I went to edit the index file, didnt touch any of the HTML code, rather just changed some of the titles and urls...now I try to open the page in Chrome and Safari and all I see now is text, rather than the HTML page. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Raj
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I figured it out, textedit on my mac was messing it up.
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Ummm... I was modding this. It's absolutely beautiful but I was wondering if we could add links to it. If I can, how?
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It's documented. If you were seriously "modding" this, you would have stumbled upon it already.
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I see in the style.css file there is a way to change the color of the background and text and all that, but is it possible to use a picture as the background?
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This is a good page. Does this derive off of html/css or jQuery?
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I'm really new to this stuff. I have safari and Adobe CS5 how do I put the start page as my start page on safari?
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open preferences, change the homepage to file:///Users/whatever/whatever/index.html
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Not sure. Don't have Safari on my Linux box, and I'm too lazy to move to the other end of the table to reach the Mac...
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Get the mac. Greatest investment ever.
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oh, when you said "I'm too lazy to move to the other end of the table to reach" I thought you were speaking metaphorically! lol. I rather enjoy my mac, though.
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Nope, I was as serious as chicken soup.
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thank you for sharing my question is how to change the color of 01 and 02 and 03 and 04 and 05 and 06 ... if i wanna make each one with deferent color and thank you for the great work
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0 thank you thank you thank you very very much
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Try "background" in the style.css...
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i ve problems when i open this startpage with cursor at the position of a dropdown menu.. then menu is pulling down and up again and again.. (when ye use "disable opening links in new tab" it happens quite ofter while going back from the visited site to start page..
is there a way to fix this?
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It should stop after you move the mouse out of the area of the dropdown. Unfortunately there's no other way to fix this...
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Any chance you still have a copy of the old one?
I lost it on my old hard drive, and preferred it...
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Nope, I don't... Maybe on my second external, but that one's halfway around the globe right now.
How about you tell my why you preferred the old one, maybe I can make some improvements...
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