# Recommend me a new homepage

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-new-homepage/678104>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 7, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-new-homepage/678104 "2014-01-07T03:21:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-new-homepage/678104/2 "2014-01-07T08:36:00Z")

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Every time someone asks this question, I always answer

> **[Create your own Protopage](https://www.protopage.com/)**
>
> Protopage is your own personal page that you can access from any computer. You can monitor news headlines from almost any web site, even obscure ones.

Fully customizable including background colors. I have boxes with my often-used links (about 20 of them including this board), rss links to top 15 stories in NY Times, Atlantic, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, Time, Wired, plus Rotten Tomatoes, and a few others. I have a calendar, a digital clock, a list of my top stocks with updating prices, a widget with phases of the moon. The free version has an ad banner at the top, but if you scroll down a bit, you can hide it. You can also have multiple tabs. There’s nothing visible on the page that you don’t put there.

I change the colors to match whatever wallpaper I’m currently using, as I don’t like my active windows filling the whole screen.

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