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MANUAL FOR CREATING YOUR OWN STARTPAGES FOR YOUR BROWSER

For the people who are curious and want to make their own startpage for your browser from scratch using html-codes. It is relative easy. In short:

make (easiest on your laptop) a webpage in HTML code (the extension must be .html)
Put the file in your phone or laptop (local), or upload it to a website-provider (extern).
Then make a shortcut of this webpage on your laptop or add to it your home screen on your phone.

You can make a startpage in HTML with Notepad or you may want to use a program which create ready-to-use startpages *However* (or even download an already made startpage).
Your startpage may look different on your pc and your phone because the screen sizes are very different. You may want to make one startpage for your pc and a bit different one for your phone.

MAKE a start page in HTML code with Notepad

I made a couple of very rough and basic example startpages to show what html-codes do. You may also use them as templates and please edit them the way you want for your purposes. Don't be afraid to try thing out.

a basic one for laptop startlaptop with code
a basic one for phone startphone with code
a more extensive one for laptop startlaptopplus with code
a more extensive one for phone startphoneplus with code

You have two possibilities: create a link to an extern startpage hosted on an provider or to a local one on your laptop/phone.

EXTERN: Make an external shortcut on your laptop/phone in firefox

Upload your files to your webspace provider and put the url-address of your startpage in the url-address field of your browser and click enter. Then:
for Laptop: in the browser click top right corner on the three stripes, choose 'Settings' / 'Home' click on 'Use Current Page' and close the page. Ready.
for Phone: in the browser click top right corner on the three dots, choose 'Ad to home screen', click 'Add', click again 'Ad'. Ready.

LOCAL: Make a local shortcut on your laptop/phone in firefox

for Laptop: open your new startpage in your browser (eg go in filemanager to your new startpage and dubbelclick), click top right corner on the three stripes, choose 'Settings' / 'Home' click on 'Use Current Page' and close the page. Ready.
for Phone: send your new startpage to your phone, download the file, open with filemanager and then open it with firefox, click top right corner on the three dots, choose 'Ad to home screen', click 'Add', click again 'Ad'. Ready.

SOME easy to use HTML codes

< the first character of every html code, close at the end with </attribute-name>
<!-- this way you can add comments which has no influence on your webpage -->
<br>  makes a break at the end of a line
<b> makes characters bold, close at the end with </b>
&nbsp;  creates a space between characters/words
<table> creates a table, close the table at the end with </table>
<tr>  creates a row in a table, close the row at the end with </tr>
<td>  creates a column in a row, close the column at the end with </td>
<td style="width:10%"> sets the size of the column, close the column at the end with </td>
<td valign="top"> align the text to the top of the column, close the column at the end with </td>
<img src="bloem-a.jpg" width="100"> add an image on the screen and forces it to 100 pixels wide
The image must be in the same place (directory) as the startpage, however you can also use external images.

However
Most of these online programs require you to create an account or log in with a google account. You are then bound by their terms and your privacy is in their hands and they can do whatever they want with it.