THING 28. CUSTOMIZED HOME PAGES

I set up a home page using iGoogle. I added the weather, Dow Jones, a sticky note, calendar, CNNMoney. com, the BBC news, the National Geographic picture, Hulu and other features. Many of the news organizations came up by default. I chose a theme for the top. This was easy and fun to put together.

I was concerned that if I created a home page with iGoogle, this would replace the home page we have on our staff Intranet. I didn't want this to happen. After asking around, I learned that to change the home page default on Internet Explorer, you have to go into Tools and then Internet options. So I won't do that. Come to think of it, I didn't find a link on iGoogle where you could make that your home page. Netvibes has an obvious link at the top of the screen to set that as the default home page.