I have an HTML file that has all of my bookmarks. This is my home page. The reason I do this is so that I don't have to import bookmarks into any web browser, and I have only one file to keep current. Almost wevery web browser has an easy "Go Home" button or command, so I use that instead of drop down bookmark menus.
My home page is just that: my personal web page. Hey, it's hosted from my own computer, so it's almost like a blank home page. No time to load at all, and I can go to my links page if I want - it's like a bookmarks file.
I used to have www.excite.com, but I usually use Google, which has a built-in homepage of omniweb:/StartPage/. I either don't see it because I'm opening up something from SlashDock, or I want to search for something, and OmniWeb's built-in homepage has links to a bunch of different search engines.