Bot-Page : Protopage

Andre Parrie calls himself an internet creative, and has developed a devilishly useful little tool for those of you that do not like to leave home without your homepage.

Protopage really is an amazingly simple tool to use, and yet it provides some excellent features. Start in the obvious place by clicking to create a new page.

The idea of this tool is that you can click to add boxes containing links, notes, images, pretty much anything digital you want.

To edit a box click Edit, of course, or if you want to add a new links box or sticky, note use the relevant option at the bottom. Personally, I have included links to my forums and groups, my webmail accounts, and a search, dictionary and encyclopaedia section too.

I have even put up an image I like, by posting a new sticky and then typing the appropriate source code around the URL where it can be found. For more information on how to do this click About Protopage and look at the tip about how to upload pictures.

Changing the background and colours is easy too using the Choose Colours button at the bottom. You can even have an animated background, though obviously this will affect the loading time.

Finally, to save your page you must register, and choose to make it either public or private. It will now be available wherever you find access to the internet, by typing into a browser window the Protopage URL followed by your own unique identifier.

Protopage [via BBC Online]
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