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 Post subject: Your Home Page
PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 01:38 
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Most smart Internet users set their browser home page to point at a search engine, and the smart choice these days is Google.

Safe Speed has a deal with Google for adverts and for search clicks.

You can help support Safe Speed by using our special page with a Google search box for your browser Home page. It's here: http://www.safespeed.org.uk/home.html

It's all a bit new, and the content of the page is subject to revision. Ideas, suggestions and so on very welcome.

Does anyone know how to implement a 'make this page your home page' link? Google has one, but it's clever and I can't see how to capture it for examination...

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Can you make the google query edit control receive the focus automatically when the page loads, and the search button be the default button? That way you can load the page, type a search string and run the search without needing to use the mouse, which is something I do with google rather a lot...

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JT wrote:
Can you make the google query edit control receive the focus automatically when the page loads, and the search button be the default button? That way you can load the page, type a search string and run the search without needing to use the mouse, which is something I do with google rather a lot...

It already does this for me using Firefox.

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JT wrote:
Can you make the google query edit control receive the focus automatically when the page loads, and the search button be the default button? That way you can load the page, type a search string and run the search without needing to use the mouse, which is something I do with google rather a lot...


Good idea, but I don't know how. Anyone?

In Opera, one tab puts the focus on the entry box.

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 Post subject: just found this.....
PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 04:49 
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A quick google <grin> reveals two options - tried neither:

Code:
<!--[if IE]>
<font face="Arial" size="3">
<A HREF="#"
onClick="this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepage)';
this.setHomePage('http://www.codelifter.com');">
Make CodeLifter Your Homepage
</A>
</font>
<![endif]-->

and
Code:
<script language="JavaScript"><!--
isIE = false;
navVer = navigator.appVersion;
ver = parseFloat(navVer);
IEPos = navVer.indexOf('MSIE');
if (IEPos !=-1) {
  isIE = true;
  ver = parseFloat(navVer.substring(IEPos+5,navVer.indexOf(';',IEPos)));
}

isIE5up = (isIE && ver >= 5);

function setNSHomepage(URL) {  // this HAS to be signed if it is to run on the web
  var Text = '';
  Text += 'Due to Netscapes security handling, making this page your homepage, will show you a dialog with a warning.\n';
  Text += 'If you do not wish to grant this site the access to your browser settings,';
  Text += ' you can manually copy the current location and paste it in the location field in Edit / Preferences / Navigator.';
  if (confirm(Text)) {
    netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalPreferencesWrite");
    navigator.preference('browser.startup.homepage',URL);
  }
}
//--></script>

<a href="javascript:;"
onClick="HomePage = top.location.href;
if (document.layers) setNSHomepage(HomePage);
else if (isIE5up) {
   this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepage)';
   this.setHomePage(HomePage);
}
else alert('Sorry, not supported in this browser,\n please change this setting
manually');
return false;">Make this page your homepage</a>

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Yeuch, you don't need all that nastiness to get focus on a particular field on a page.

Firstly you need to name your Google form (add name="Name Here" inside the Google form tag). Then in your body tag, you need to add an onLoad event to bring focus to the search field, which if you look in the source is named 'q'.

So, in your body tag add the following (note, I've named my form "Goog", so replace that with whatever you name your form when you make the changes):
Code:
onLoad="document.forms.Goog.q.focus();"

And the job's a good'un. Here's a version with the modifications already done, you should find your cursor in the search bar field on page load:

http://c.....st.html

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CarlP wrote:
And the job's a good'un. Here's a version with the modifications already done, you should find your cursor in the search bar field on page load...


Great stuff Carl. I've grabbed your vesion and installed it at Safe speed without even looking at the code.

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I've grabbed your vesion and installed it at Safe speed without even looking at the code.

Excellent, I should have full root access to your web box in just a few seconds...









:P

Seriously though, no probs, only took me 5 seconds to do and another 5 to upload it!

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CarlP wrote:
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I've grabbed your vesion and installed it at Safe speed without even looking at the code.

Excellent, I should have full root access to your web box in just a few seconds...


:yikes: :hoppingmad2: :judge: :reaper:

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:P



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CarlP wrote:
Here's a version with the modifications already done, you should find your cursor in the search bar field on page load:

http://c.....st.html


Carl, can you take it down please? I've realised that Google might detect it as a fraud attempt, with clicks to my account coming from a third party web site. :yikes:

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Heh, Google are honestly nowhere near as draconian as you seem to think - unless you scam them for a few thousand clicks you'll be fine, but it's gone anyway, I took it down about 5 minutes ago. :)

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CarlP wrote:
Heh, Google are honestly nowhere near as draconian as you seem to think - unless you scam them for a few thousand clicks you'll be fine

Hey, you just wait until they get their new "click cameras" installed, along with the safety click partnerships to administer the fines...

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CarlP wrote:
Heh, Google are honestly nowhere near as draconian as you seem to think - unless you scam them for a few thousand clicks you'll be fine, but it's gone anyway, I took it down about 5 minutes ago. :)


Thanks. I have absolutely no experience of this on which to draw.

I could well imagine some bit of software detecting an illegitimate click and putting the account on hold! They would appear to be quite vulnerable to illegitimate stuff.

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A few questions and developments.

I've signed up with Tools n Stuff for their affiliate programme. This means if you click on our link to their site and buy something we earn a modest commission. See the link on the [b]User Home Page[/b.

I've requested a sign-up to the Amazon affiliate programme. This takes a few days. Same sort of deal. I'll publish links when I have them.

Are there any other affiliate suggestions? Companies I should sign up with (effectively) to advertise their services?

How's the home page looking? Does it fit your screen OK? Any problems?

Is there anything else it should contain?

Who's using it?

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I've set up the new Safe Speed home page as my main search engine and I'm using it all day, every day. I suppose every little helps.

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Are there any other affiliate suggestions? Companies I should sign up with (effectively) to advertise their services?

Yeah, millions! A good start would be www.tradedoubler.co.uk which lets you sign up to everything all from one place.

There are a million and one other affiliate schemes, what sort of thing in particular are you interested in?

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CarlP wrote:
There are a million and one other affiliate schemes, what sort of thing in particular are you interested in?


The model I have in mind it mainly to take a little commission out of things that Safe Speed visitors are already doing. The Google search is an ideal example. The many folk buy books (and other stuff) from Amazon, so I thought if they did that via a SS link - same cost to them - benefit to SS.

I'd want to be reasonably confident that any suppliers were offering good service.

And I suppose the final criteria should be that it can provide a worthy income stream.

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