I have my own custom home page stored on my computer. I snagged the logos from all the sites I visit daily plus a few I hate digging through my poorly organized bookmarks for. The logos open the websites in question in new windows. For ages my EN World one linked to the news page, but I only need that once a day at most, so I set the blank spacer graphic next to the EN World logo to link to the message boards and now I have handy links to both.
Even though my browser will keep track of what sites I had open and reopen them all for me when I restart, I seldom leave windows besides my home page open. Instead I dump them into the blackhole that is my bookmarks, and hope I can find them again when I want them. I usually can't.