OT: Useful start page

Mon Feb 2 16:53:35 UTC 2009

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> Hi guys& gals,
>>
>> I've been using the following for ages now and find it very useful. I think the original version 
>> came with Libranet (an old Linux distro that has now gone the way of the Dodo).
>> Perhaps someone would care to debug the 'Kubuntu Forums search' form as I can't get it to return 
>> a search query (my PHP is nearly non-existent).
>>
>> So here it is:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>Local Start Page</title>
>> </head>
>> <body onload="document.getElementById('Kubuntu').focus()">
>>
>> <h3>Useful search start page</h3>
>>
>> <p>
>> This is a local page to avoid using the network on disconnected machines.<br />
>> </p>
>>
>> <p>
>> <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/">O'RIELLY Linux Commands</a>
>> <br />
>> <br />
>> </p>
>>
>> <p>
>> <a href="http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?" >Kubuntu Forum Search</a>
>> </p>
>> <form action="http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?action=search2" method="get" 
>> accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">
>> <p>
>> <input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256" id="Kubuntu" />
>> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
>> </p>
>> </form>
>>
>> <p>
>> <a href="http://www.google.com/linux">Google Linux Search</a>
>> </p>
>> <form action="http://www.google.com/linux" method="get">
>> <p>
>> <input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256" id="Linux" />
>> <input type="hidden" name="restrict" value="linux" />
>> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
>> </p>
>> </form>
>>
>> <p>
>> <a href="http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=&tab=wi">Google 
>> Image Search</a>
>> </p>
>>
>> <form action="http://www.google.com/images" method="get" id="google">
>> <p>
>> <input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256" id="google-input" />
>> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
>> </p>
>> </form>
>>
>> <p>
>> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/?hl=en&tab=w1">YouTube Search</a>
>> </p>
>>
>> <form action="http://www.youtube.com/results?search" method="get" id="google">
>> <p>
>> <input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256" id="google-input" />
>> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
>> </p>
>>
>> </form>
>>
>> <p>
>> <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google General Search</a>
>> </p>
>>
>> <form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get" id="google">
>> <p>
>> <input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256" id="google-input" />
>> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
>> </p>
>> </form>
>>
>> <p>
>> <a href="http://directory.google.com/">Google Web Directory</a>
>> </p>
>>
>> <form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get">
>> <p>
>> <input type="hidden" name="cat" value="gwd/Top" />
>> <input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256" value="" />
>> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
>> </p>
>> </form>
>>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>>
> 
> Oops! I should have said to save the above as 'start_page.html' or something similar, and point 
> your browser of choice to it, then use it as your 'Home Page'.
> 
> I hope it's useful...
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Nigel
> 
> 
Nice one, thanks! I saved it and have every intention of using it as 
start for Firefox - and possibly add some stuff to it later

Sinclair