HOMEMAKER

Keep making the web your own! Create your own custom static homepage!

live demo: https://home.domdit.com/

Features:

Customizable background images
Background images persist in new tabs and browser instances through the use of a cookie
Customizable links
Links have keybinds so you can type a letter and automatically be redirected to the page of your choice
Tabbing system to sort your links
Customizable fonts, colors, links, page title
Configuration file based generation

Quickstart:

Clone this repository
Modify homemaker.conf
Put your favorite wallpapers in the folder bg/
Run python3 homemaker.py build to compile your homepage
The compiled homepage is now in a folder called build/
Run python3 homemaker.py serve
Go to http://localhost:8000 to view your homepage
repeat steps 2 through 7 until you have a homepage you are happy with.
Take the files in the build/ folder and host them wherever you host everything else
Update all of your browsers so that the home button and new tab button point to your new homepage

How to Host:

With your own server using nginx

I am not going to go in depth here. If you have your own server, I would:

put the compiled files in the build/ directory in /var/www/homepage
create an nginx config entry that looks something like this:

server {
        server_name home.<my-domain>.com www.home.<my-domain>.com;
        
        location / {
                root /var/www/homepage;
        }
}

reload nginx and you are good to go!

Hosting locally

Similar to hosting remotely, probably, just read for yourself: https://tcude.net/hosting-internal-sites-with-nginx/

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