Homepage

Custom Start/home page (multi LIVE Search) with live animated weather and news ticker - written in HTML/JS. Minimal, self-hosted, and dope.

DEMO: https://seanvree.github.io/homepage/

Last Updated: 17 NOV 2019:

• Added Google Analytics (Action Required).
• Code maintenance.
• Updated jQuery, Bootstrap.

Features:

• Self hosted, VERY minimal(ish)/lightweight.
• Live searching.
• Customizable Bookmarks.
• Mobile ready.
• Fully functional multi-search input form (Google, YouTube, Wiki, IMDB).
• Live custom news ticker provided by: feed.mikle.com ($1/month).
• Background auto change (day/night).
• Monthly calendar modal (Click on date) (Appears only on desktop browsers - screen height > 730px).
• Live DTG with click-to-convert time (12/24hr).
• Weather data auto generated via Geolocation.
• Weather API provided via OpenWeatherMap.
• Click-to-convert Celsius/Fahrenheit.
• 5-day forecast data (Click on right weather icon).
• Page hit counter (PHP) (bottom right).
• Stand-alone weather app can be found here: https://github.com/seanvree/Weather
• Check out my other self-hosted apps here: https://github.com/Monitorr

Screenshot Desktop:

Screenshot Mobile:

Animated Weather Icons :

Notes:

• Add desired background image files:

/css/main.css: LINE 38 & 55:

background: url("background_day.jpg");

NOTE: Background DAY displays from 0800-2000 local browser time

• Turn ON search auto-complete by changing the value to < "autocomplete="ON" > at the following location:

/index.html: LINE 265:

<input type="search" id="flexbox-input" name="s" value="" placeholder=" Search..." autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false" autofocus>

WEATHER DATA:

• Acquire your FREE API key at https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up
• Replace the default key:

/js/weather.js : LINE 12:

   var weatherApiKey = ' YOUR KEY HERE ';

• Change the default temp unit from F to C by changing the following two items:

/index.html: LINE 128:

<div id="unit" class="unit hidden">&degF</div>

/js/weather.js: LINE 8:

var unit = 'metric';

• Weather auto refresh default setting is 30 seconds (2 calls per minute), or 30000(ms). Max is 60 API calls per 1 minute. Change at the following location:

/js/weather.js : LINE 201:

var t = window.setInterval(searchByLocation, 30000);

TICKER DATA:

• Create a customized feed.mikle ticker widget for RSS news sources and style. Go to https://feed.mikle.com, create an account, and replicate the settings of the screenshot image /img/feedmikle.jpg located in this repo.
• Input the custom ticker widget URL at the following location:

/index.html : Line 293:

<script src="https://feed.mikle.com/js/fw-loader.js" data-fw-param=" YOUR NUMBER HERE "></script>

GOOGLE ANALYTICS:

• Acquire a FREE Google Analytics site ID at: https://analytics.google.com/
• Replace the default site ID UA-XXXXX-Y at the following location:

/js/analytics.js : LINE 9:

   ga('create', 'UA-133756821-1', 'auto');

LIVE Search Usage:

Key Searching:

• Make changes to the live search behavior and/or bookmarks in /js/tilde.js .
• When using commands, the desired result MUST be selected from the suggestions result list below the input field.
• To view the bookmarks and site keys, press ? for the help menu.

(NOTE: The help menu only appears on desktop browsers).

Search any of the sites by typing a colon after the site's key, followed by a search query.

For example:

• Entering g:tilde would search GitHub for tilde.
• Entering s:radiohead would search SoundCloud for radiohead.

If an input doesn't match any of the commands, a generic Google search will be triggered.

Specific Locations:

Navigate directly to a specific location by typing a forward slash after the site's key, followed by the location on the site.

For example:

• Entering r/r/startpages would redirect to www.reddit.com/r/startpages
• Entering h/popular would redirect to hypem.com/popular

URL Redirects:

If a full domain is entered into the search field, the browser will be redirected to that domain or URL.

For example:

• Entering stallman.org would redirect to: stallman.org
• Entering https://smile.amazon.com would redirect to: smile.amazon.com

About Me:

• seanvree (Windows Wizard)

• I usually hang out here

• Buy me a beer

Credits:

haltdev | jonfinley | leram84 | causefx | cadejscroggins

Featured on: https://startpages.github.io/