Talk:Home page/Archive 1

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This article was the subject of an educational assignment in 2014 Q1. Further details were available on the "Education Program:University of Michigan/SI 110: Introduction to Information (Winter 2014)" page, which is now unavailable on the wiki.

Kimpaul17 (talk) 02:44, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Planned revisions: Add image examples. Elaborate more on personalized homepages (i.e. cell phones, tablets, etc.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hallnate (talk • contribs) 19:44, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

• Perhaps add a "how to" in making a home page Asheshpr (talk) 19:48, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Add a tab "Purpose" to more specifically outline how the home page is used for different types of websites (commercial, business, social, etc) Asheshpr (talk) 18:31, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Added to the "Purpose" tab by creating a bulleted list regarding the typical use of a home page on a web site Dcreilly814 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:34, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Add a "Customization" showing how to customize homepages on the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers Hallnate (talk) 21:17, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Add "History" tab of how the use of the home page came about. Maybe also a "Spelling" section as home page may be spelled either "homepage" or "home page," and which term is more often used or considered correct. Kimpaul17 (talk) 21:45, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

a changing concept: talk about how home pages have become more complex and allow users to have more tabs on their "home page" Rachelenzer (talk) 15:52, 20 March 2014 (UTC) home page/home screen: explain what home pages are in terms of a mobile device such as an iPhone Rachelenzer (talk) 15:52, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Review: I like what you all did with the article. The pictures at the bottom of the introduction help people visualize what a home screen looks like. Adding the purpose page was also useful because it helps people understand the different reasons to use a home page. I would only change a few things. First, I think that "a changing concept" is a weak, and vague title. I think a more appropriate title would be "change over time", and maybe a better place for it would be as a sub header under the header "purpose". Also, I think you should have added a picture of a browser home page because that seems like the main focus of the page. GiladGranot (talk) 01:20, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

If anyone can find information on how many people actually change their "home page" (the page that shows up when you first start your browser. That would be interesting information to have available here. I'm actively looking for citations.

Tools - Internet options - select the general tab - Home page has three selections 'use current'- 'use default'-'use blank`' 

This is from my XP Spanish I am sure the English XP is the same or very similar.

Shouldn't this be called "homepage," not "Homepage definition"? --user:Daniel C. Boyer

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Re "It has the shortest URL: just the domain name": is this really so? Aren't many homepages located a number of directories from the domain root? A-giau 01:51, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Is this really true: "the website of a g ner face it being used this way by Germans who fell victim to a (IMO) false friend. I have checked a number of dictionaries and all agree that it can only refer to the main page of a web site. Also, the use as the browser's start page is very rare, if ever, and neither backed up by any dictionary. If it were widespread, OK -- but I don't think we should acknowledge occasional wrong usage in an encyclopedia. H005 12:42, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Is this really true: "the website of a group or individual"?

Yes

I have checked a number of dictionaries and all agree that it can only refer to the main page of a web site.

...pillow muncher jargon? Waste of time.

Also, the use as the browser's start page is very rare, if ever, and neither backed up by any dictionary.

Um, no...:

Mozilla/Firefox: Preferences > General > Home Page

Internet Explorer: Options > Home Page

It's fine as it is. ¦

14:00, 2005 September 12 (UTC)

Dictionaries on internet jargon are proper sources, not wastes of time.. This is from the American Heritage Dictionary:

The opening or main page of a website, intended animal lover visitors and provide information about the site or its owner.

Now then.. The website of a group or individual is an auxillary meaning more slang than literal definition, but could be still included on the article I think... Not entirely sure.. The important thing is to have sources to cite, as that is the most rampant issue with Wikipedia, the lack of citation, particularly in new information, so those dictionaries aren't a waste of time, but partially vital to the expansion to the article(even more important might be the development of the homepage, from what it once was to what it is now).--Vercalos 05:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

It is a "false friend": In Germany, "Website" is often used to refer to a certain, single page, because "site" sounds much like "Seite" - meaning "page". I'd guess that 95% have never heard of the actual meaning of site as in location, area, place. "Homepage" often means the entire site, or the first/main page of a web site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.63.63.162 (talk) 14:49, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

As I recall from the early days of the web, "The URL or local file that is automatically loaded when a web browser starts" was the original meaning of the term, but I could be wrong.I agree with the concept as similar I have heard at: http://www.webdesigningcompany.net This would be a good place space olympics to come to find out where the phrase really comes from, and how and when it came to be used for these other things as well. It is not clear, and seems unlikely, that following any of these disambiguation links that will answer any of those questions. Having just a disambiguation page without an actual article doesn't work. 67.168.216.176 16:35, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Possibly, though in the early days of the Web, browsers didn't usually automatically load a Web page as the Home page. Unless and until there is a better article here, though, it's still a dab page. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the edited portion was promoting websites, but world-home.org is an excellent homepage, and just the sort of page I was looking for when I searched the web for "homepage", finding it in Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hhhsss (talk • contribs) 05:48, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

it is clearly the predecessor of blogs. it needs its article. --AaThinker (talk) 13:09, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

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Thank You..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.7.71.23 (talk) 19:56, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

The fifth item in the list of meanings of "homepage" seems incomprehensible to me. At the time I write this comment, it says:

Home page also webpage . the web page set by default setting of browser that web page consider as home page of that particular browser

I am quite sure that there must be an error, also because the period/full stop is in the wrong position.
Can someone, who understands what this sentence intends to mean, please correct it? 84.115.137.46 (talk) 19:25, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Okay, obviously someone was just at the same moment editing the page, because shortly later, the sentence has been corrected. Anyway, I deleted the fifth item, because in my opinion, it explained the same meaning as the second item.

Home page: The web page set by default setting of a browser that a web page considers as a home page of that particular browser

84.115.137.46 (talk) 19:34, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't understand why Google Chrome is referenced on this page, especially as no other specific browser is mentioned.

This start page can be a website or it can be a page with various browser functions such as the visual display of websites that are often visited in the web browser Google Chrome.

What's the meaning of "visual display of websites"? Doesn't a browser normally "visually displays" websites? Is this referring to an overview (icon-like) of recently visited websites? This feature wouldn't be limited to Google Chrome; also a Firefox wouldn't show "websites that are often visited in the web browser Google Chrome". --91.14.126.4 (talk) 11:02, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Is the open compound (2 words) still preferred? I would have thought to find the closed version more common by now/?

Ed8r (talk) 20:04, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I think that you did a great job of elaborating on the very basic idea of what a home page is. Some people have heard other words used other than 'home page', so I think it was very beneficial to include those alternative terms. I think that some of your bullet points were repetitive and needed some more explanation or details off of those definitions. I think you could accomplish by expanding your purpose section of your article to continue to talk about the different ways that home pages are used Also, your idea to add a picture example was very smart, but the picture does not show up. Overall, I think you guys did a good job of adding quality and helpful information to this article. Good job! Eotann (talk) 17:47, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

This article had a lot of good information on the topic of home pages. One thing that could be changed to make it better is to take away the bullet points. I believe that the article would read much more smoothly if it were written in paragraph form. I found the information that was presented in the article to be very interesting and also helped me to understand what a home page is, in all senses. On the other hand, this is a very short article, but I also am not sure how much information is out there on the topic of home pages. I think that this is well-written and with a few minor changes it could be a wonderful article on the topic of home pages. Jrberns (talk) 17:58, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Overall, this is a well done wikipedia assignment. The brevity can be excused based on the little relevant information related to home pages. However, I do believe the the history aspect could have been expanded. I think it would be interesting to see why and exactly when home pages came about. Moreover, when was the term coined? Also I think it would be useful to note how home pages have been expanded over time. Think about the Michigan website for example. While in the early 2000's it was extremely simple with basic colors and few links, it has dramatically become more complex in recent times. The home page now boasts a seemingly never-ending scroll feature, with many pictures and information about school events. All in all, nice job! Bmarvisi (talk) 04:38, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I believe that this article had good information and was very concise and to the point. The information was clearly stated and did not stray from the point that was trying to be established. That being said I would have liked to seen more information and more depth regarding the history section of the article. I feel like there could have been more information that was not included. I also believe that the subsections could have been more detailed. Granted there may not be much to talk about regarding the "main page", however I believe that you could have better dissected the topic. While there was not much information, the layout and consecutive information was all very clearly stated and organized. This team did a great job of siting and linking their information. Good work friends! Aborghi (talk) 13:21, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I think that as a whole this wikipedia assignment was executed very well! I think that the length of the information could have been expanded; however, I do understand that it was hard to find information on the topic matter. The history section of this home page was very short and I think that it could have been increased. I believe that there must be more information on the history of a home page because it is such an important topic matter relating to the Internet. In the changing section, the Iphone example could have been explained in more detail. I wasn't exactly clear on what the person meant by it. I think the explanation part describing what a home page is was the most lengthy and best part of the wikipedia page. Overall, I think that this edit was done very well but could have been a little bit longer and more descriptive. Melisser464 (talk) 14:08, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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