Need to make a customizable homepage. Will Javascript work?

[webfrog]

Hello,

I need to make a customizable homepage for an Intranet. (Similar to the begining simplified versions of MyExcite, MyYahoo, etc.) Can I do this with javascript and cookies?

Depending on the employee's username, they would see a custom homepage for their department. (Either they could choose their elements or I could pre-set them) I realize the easiest way would be to make 10 different homepages but I would like it to happen automatically with cookies.

I can edit javascript & php enough to make it happen but don't know enough about it to create my own from the ground up... obviously. ;)

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've been searching javascript sites all day and I'm getting the impression I'm barking up the wrong tree.

Thanks!

[swon]

I wouldn't do that with javascript, you know PHP, why do you not make it with PHP and MySQL, simply user login, select user,location and locate him to the specified pages.