VIDEO: Pocket-lint homepage tutorial

A guided tour of the new features on the site

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1 October 2008 0:29 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Unsure about how to get the most our new homepage? Check out the video above to see a live walkthrough.

Homepage modules
We write a lot of news and reviews on a daily basis here at Pocket-lint covering lots of subjects. In September alone we've written almost 700 news stories and 90 reviews. Making sense of that information if you aren't visiting the site on an hourly basis can be confusing so we've introduced modules.

From today you can now create a module of every major channel we list, from over 200 of our tags, and plenty more including latest news and most commented on stories.

Why would you want to do this? Well the result means that you can make your technology news and reviews on Pocket-lint incredibly personalised. Don't want camera news or reviews clogging up the homepage? No problem. Only want Apple news? That's fine too.

You can load new modules via the "Customise homepage" link in the blue bar under the logo at the top of the homepage and you can drag around modules in the first two columns in the order you want giving you the most personalised gadget website around.

Customise homepage
So you load up new modules. You'll also be able to customise the modules themselves giving you even more choice in how you view news on Pocket-lint. Clicking Edit gives you the chance to select just news, just reviews, whether or not to display images, as well as how many stories you want to see in the module.

Quick view
In the past we had a "most read" box that sat on news and review pages on the site. It was helpful in showing you what was hot, but not great if you wanted to see the latest news on other areas of the site. From today you can now load any of the modules on the homepage into the "quick view" slot and then see that information on any page on the site. It's like your own personal quick view to the news or reviews that interest you the most.