Google Redux [Face-lift]
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Not to shabby eh? Give your Google homepage a fresh new look inspired by Andy Rutledge. You’ll need Firefox for starters, then the Greasemonkey extension.
I’ll assume everyone can get those two to play nice before attempting to install the Google Redux Greasemonkey script which turns the boring plain Google into something a little less early 90’s, and a little more 2005/06. If you run into a brick wall and need some sort of assistance, drop a comment below and someone will help you out.
You might want to try Kamambe.com. It lets you create a customized userscript to modify the Google menu tabs, so you can hide or add links that you want.
You know what, I dreamed of making this! Weird!
That’s pretty sweet. I am not sure if we could see it to be offically google because they would have to expand that to all google, and they do a fairly good job using the whole page except the main page.
I bet its my comment that inspired it ;)
No, they are not to change the original google main page, they want it to be extremely compatible with all the browsers (even IE 3.0) so they can’t apply layers or CSS
google should invest in possibly implementing some sort of script for serving different front pages depending on the browser.
Man, I can’t even remember the last time I was at the main Google page. I mean, that’s why we have Google Search bars in our browsers now. So I’d pretty much only really be interested if there were a script or something that would change the look of the actual search result pages. But then, I don’t know how interested I’d really be, since the search result pages are actually pretty good the way they are.
That said, backwards compatibility doesn’t need to come at the expense of style. R032E5 seems to be under the impression that moving to a CSS-based layout would make it “incompatible” with older browsers. Aside from the fact that nobody uses those browsers anymore, except for maybe the 5 people who I’m sure will suddenly be drudged up as examples of “someone I know who still uses IE 3.0,” the site would still be just as viewable in earlier browsers. Sure, they may not look the same, but the simple fact of the matter is that it’s impossible to have a page look the same in EVERY browser, no matter what the die-hard tablists may think. CSS-based designs will, on the other hand, work in every browser all the way back to Mosaic. They may not look the same, but they will work. Feel free to read more on the subject at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/
Wow…i blogged that sometime back…its a fineidea…i’m already running a modded google search page ;-)
Here’s that old link that Jacob sent me
http://sheckel.home.mchsi.com/google/
http://shoutsofnothingness.net/blog/?p=101#comment-215
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