Starting Page Tab

The starting page is the initial page retrieved for the channel. This page, and optionally, the pages it links to, are retrieved.

A starting page can be one of 3 things:

• A website URL Type in an internet address, or press the Browse showcase... button to choose an internet address from some featured Plucker-compatible sites.
• A local file Type in the location of a file [starting with the prefix file://], or press the Choose file... button to browse your disk for a file.
• A list of my links Press the Edit my list of links with HTML editor button to call up the Editor Dialog to edit a list of starting links. These links will all be spidered and the results made into a channel.

Beginner tip: If starting on a website URL, don't forget the http:// at the start.

Power user tip: "You can use Plucker to retrieve a password protected site (ie one where your webbrowser pop ups up a dialog prompting for username and password, not one where you enter the username and password somewhere in the webpage.) This is done by including your username/password in the starting url. The format is: http://myusername:mypassword@www.somewebsite.com. Be aware that your username and password will now be included in the referring page if you go offsite, so to prevent other sites from looking at your username and password in their weblogs, be sure that either stayonhost or stayondomain filter is switched on, in the Limits Tab .