Protopage.com – Create and customize your very own online start page

Getting started

Protopage is your own personal page, which you can access from any computer or mobile phone.

To try Protopage, click here to create your own page

You can choose your own selection of news from thousands of sources.

To read a news article, click the headline inside the news widget.

There are thousands of different widgets that you can add to your page.

To see the list of available widgets, click the ‘Add widgets’ button at the top of the page

Most news sites and blogs make their headlines available to Protopage using a technology called RSS.

To add a news site or blog to your Protopage, simply click the ‘Add widgets’ button, enter the web address, and click ‘Go’.

Your widgets are arranged into columns. You can drag and drop widgets to re-arrange them by clicking and dragging the title bar.

You can resize a widget by dragging the corner.

Some widgets have settings that you can edit. For example, a weather widget will let you choose your city by clicking ‘edit’.

You can remove a widget from your page by clicking the ‘x’ button.

Use bookmark widgets for fast access to all of the web sites you go to most.

Click the ‘edit’ button on a bookmarks widget to enter your favorite web site addresses.

You can add sticky notes on your page. To edit the text, simply click inside the widget and start typing.

You can also add to-do lists, calendars, photos, and much more.

Access your page from most phones, including the iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens, Palm, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Windows Mobile.

After you’ve registered your page, access protopage.com/mobile from your phone.

Protopage works with all major web browsers, including Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari.

To download the latest Firefox web browser (for PC or Mac), click here

You can organize your widgets under different tabs.

To add a tab, click ‘New tab’. To rename the currently selected tab, simply click it and start typing. Drag tabs to re-order them.

If you want to move a widget to a different tab, simply drag it to the new tab.

Click the arrow on the currently selected tab to see options.

You can make your tabs different colors, change the way widgets are arranged within the tab, or delete the tab.

Click the double arrow on the far right of your page to see the advanced ‘category’ view.

You can organize your tabs into categories, and either keep categories prviate or share them with the world.

When reading news stories, you can press the ‘Z’ key to skip to the next unread story.

To see the entire list of shortcuts, hover over the ‘keyboard shortcuts’ text in the top right corner of the news reader.

Click the ‘Colors/Settings’ button to customize your page with your own choice of colors and wallpaper.

Use the search bar to quickly search hundreds of popular search engines.