For a long time, I always wished I had an easy way to add a custom set of links to my university’s intranet home page so I could easily access the pages for my current classes.
The idea was to have it look something like the image below. Notice the “Class Links” section above “Home.” The original page only had the “Home” section.
Originally, this seemed to be a bit implausible. Now, thanks to Greasemonkey and Instapaper, it’s actually pretty easy. In fact, the solution I’ve built is general enough that it could be easily adapted to a number of similar situations where you want an easy way to personalize a set of links on a non-interactive page.
I thought that some of my classmates might be interested in this, so this post is to explain how to adapt my code for yourself. This will require some very basic JavaScript skills at one point, but hopefully I’ll be able to make that part easy enough. Continue reading ‘How to easily add customized links to an intranet page’
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