How to Create and Build a Netvibes Start PageNetvibes pioneered the personalized startpage, an alternative to traditional Web portals. With millions of users in more than 150 countries, Netvibes lets individuals assemble all in one place their favorite websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, widgets, and everything else they enjoy on the Web.
Instructions Difficulty: Moderate
- Visit the Netvibes website : www.netvibes.com/
- In the top right corner of the screen click on the “sign in” link
- To create a new account click on “Sign up”. You will need a valid email address to sign up for a new account. This will be your login.
- To create you account type in your email address and a password for your netvibes page. Make sure the password is secure and one that you will remember.
- When you first create your account and login you will see the default content for Netvibes. Before you add your own content you need to delete the default content :
- When you roll over the title bar of the module box, the content editing options should appear in the top right corner of the box.
- Click on the grey X to delete the module
- Now that you have cleared the default content from your page you are ready to customize it :
- Before you add a RSS feed to your page you will need to get the URL from your favourite blog or web page.
- In the URL (web address) browser field you will notice this orange icon . This rss icon indicates that you can get the RSS feed for this site.
- Click once on this icon
- You will be transferred to a new page. On the new page copy the web address (URL). You will copy it by highlighting the address and pressing CTRL + C. (or Edit> Copy)You are going to paste this into your Netvibes page
- Go back to the window displaying your Netvibes page.
- Click on the link Add content link in the upper left corner.
- A new menu pane will appear. Click on “Add a feed”.
- A new window will appear. Click in the field next to the Add Feed button and paste your URL by pressing on CTRL +V.
- Click on the “Add feed” button. Netvibes will then verify the feed and it will show up below the area you pasted the URL.. Once the feed is verified you can click on the Feed title bar and then click on “Add To My Page” button.
- A new box will appear on your page displaying the most recent additions to your favourite website
- You can repeat the steps for this activity to add the feeds from others website and blog sources