Do you take advantage of customizable homepages? i.e. iGoogle?

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For one of the new sites I'm developing I'm considering creating a drag and drop customizable homepage where the user would have to be logged in in order to customize the homepage, otherwise a default list of widgets would be displayed. Logged in users would have their widget settings saved for future visits to the site. These widget module boxes should also be collapsible like on the iGoogle page.

Does the homepage even seem like the ideal place to put this? If not the homepage, where? A user homepage? Would that work?

Looking for some good feedback here :)

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-Chris
(thats for you Rodger)
 


i have one homepage. netvibes.com

not a damn thing would change me of that. ;)
 
Netvibes is awesome. I've been using it as my homepage for months. Keeping all of the blogs that I read organized is its main draw for me.
 
;) yeah its pretty intense. glad i could help 'enlighten' someone.

feel free to +rep seeing as someone (cough geek cough) decimated my rep with a single neg one a while back ;)

but yeah, you should enjoy it. personally, i keep tabs/pages with different subjects of RSS feeds (ive got a business feed page, tech feed back, DIY feed page, etc etc)

the main page always has the email accounts and the weather and quick access links and a flickr search for new things to be looking at

hope you enjoy.
 
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This would be on a large content site with a very strong (hopefully) community aspect to it. Now that I get thinking about it, the whole point of the homepage is to get people off it and further into the site where you want them to go so unless you are creating a site like netvibes, then it would be best if you had control of your homepage. Is my logic correct with that?

Like for example, I would want my users to view stories, forum posts, reviews, resources, etc that might not otherwise be viewed. I can do this by featuring these individual stories or popular forum posts on the front page.

Does anyone have a great example of a homepage layout of a site like entrepreneur, businessweek, etc (I checked those out and didn't really like them) that is not cluttered but manages to feature a lot of content in a prominent way?
 
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Thanks guy
-Chris
(thats for you Rodger)
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Nice.

I never personally use those customizable ones. I mean the features are understandable, but I don't want to put that much time into making a site work for me unless it was some place that I visited multiple times an hour I guess. What is offered for vBulliten in the form of vbadvanced allows for multiple features on the main page to be displayed (newest posts, who's online, newest blogs, etc), but isn't customizable. Something like that works well enough for me.

Respectfully,
Joe Z
 
CLKeenan said:
This would be on a large content site with a very strong (hopefully) community aspect to it. Now that I get thinking about it, the whole point of the homepage is to get people off it and further into the site where you want them to go so unless you are creating a site like netvibes, then it would be best if you had control of your homepage. Is my logic correct with that?

Like for example, I would want my users to view stories, forum posts, reviews, resources, etc that might not otherwise be viewed. I can do this by featuring these individual stories or popular forum posts on the front page.

Does anyone have a great example of a homepage layout of a site like entrepreneur, businessweek, etc (I checked those out and didn't really like them) that is not cluttered but manages to feature a lot of content in a prominent way?
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YO CL.

If you search through the Techcrunch archives you should be able to find his reviews on the whole AJAX homepage era. There are a lot of them. If you were going to make one, i would make one to target a specific market.

For example,

A homepage that just shows stock market statistics

or something like that.
 
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