The home button on your favorite browser can be set to your favorite page. (Actually, that's not completely accurate. I've seen at least one edition of a browser, distributed by a popular web newspaper, that had the home option locked on the opening page of the newspaper. The only means available for changing the pre-set home page of that browser was to delve into the code, and very few of us are going to do that.) But I've chosen to call that page the opening page, doing so solely for the purpose of avoiding confusion. From my experience surprisingly few people are aware of the fact that they are able to decide what they want the opening page to be, and perhaps that's further proof that most of us are still very far from starting to identify the web as possible work-space.

For the record, at least, I identify a homepage as the first page of a personal site. A page such as this usually contains basic, if boring, information about the person who has decided to make his or her identity known to the world via the web. That homepage can be made into an opening page, and a large number of vanity writers probably choose to do just that, but they are two clearly distinct entities.

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