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Webmaster Tips, Tricks & Utilities

CONFIGURING A SPLASH PAGE:
A Splash Page is a page that loads with a particular message prior to launching a main site. Splash pages are great tools to use if you need to track hits from other sites, as well as providing interesting or updated information to your visitors on entering your site or a page on your site. For example, if you wanted to place a Hit Counter on a splash page, you can see how many people come in to that page before jumping to your main site. This can track clicks from other sites if you use a separate splash URL for each. In the code example below, you will see there are two parts to this script. The first part is where you set the variables for your splash page, while the second part executes those variables in a working script. Also, be sure to use the div and layer tags to correctly target the script. Be aware that these messages are placed "absolutely" on a page so other elements, if you use them, will wrap above or below. You can play with the div positioning to see what's best. In this example, we will display a series of messages before jumping to another page. This message can be modified in the time of display and the actual text to display. You can add as many messages as you want but remember your visitor will eventually tire of this so try to keep it brief.

<html>
<head>
<title>Cool JavaScript</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="splashcontainer" style="position:absolute;width:350"></div>
<layer id="splashcontainerns" width=450></layer>
<script language="JavaScript">
var intervals=4000
var targetdestination="http://pattayacitythailand.com/"
var splashmessage=new Array()
var openingtags='<font face="Arial" size="4">'
splashmessage[0]="Welcome to the coolest site on the 'Net ..."
splashmessage[1]="where you can add cool stuff to your site ..."
splashmessage[2]="All you need to know is how to copy and paste ..."
splashmessage[3]="Hang on while we take you to Pattayacitythailand.com!"
var closingtags='</font>'
var i=0
function displaysplash_ie(){
if (i<splashmessage.length){
sc_ie.style.visibility="hidden"
sc_ie.innerHT ML='<b><center>'+openingtags+splashmessage[i]+closingtags+'</center></b>'
sc_ie.style.top=document.body.scrollTop+docume nt.body.clientHeight/2- sc_ie.o
ffsetHeight/2
sc_ie.style.visibility="visible"
i++
}
else{
window.location=targetdestination
return
}
se tTimeout("displaysplash_ie()",intervals)
}
function displaysplash_ns(){
if (i<splashmessage.length){
sc_ns.visibility="hide"
sc_ns.document.writ e('<b>'+openingtags+splashmessage[i]+closingtags+'</b>')
sc_ns. document.close()
sc_ns.left=pageXOffset+window.innerWidth/2- sc_ns.document.width/2
sc_ns.top=pageYOffset+window.innerHeight/2- sc_ns.document.height/2
sc_ns.visibility="show"
i++
}
els e{
window.location=targetdestination
return
}
setTimeout( "displaysplash_ns()",intervals)
}
function positionsplashcontainer(){
if (document.all){
sc_ie=document.all.splashcontainer
sc_ie.style.left=doc ument.body.scrollLeft+document.body.clientWidth/2- sc_ie.
offsetWidth/2
sc_ie.style.top=document.body.scrollTop+docume nt.body.clientHeight/2- sc_ie.o
ffsetHeight/2
displaysplash_ie()
}
else if (document.layers){
sc_ns=document.splashcontainerns
sc_ns.left=page XOffset+window.innerWidth/2- sc_ns.document.width/2
sc_ns.top=pageYOffset+window.innerHeight/2- sc_ns.document.height/2
sc_ns.visibility="show"
displaysplash_ns()
}
else
window.location=targetdestination
}
window.onlo ad=positionsplashcontainer
</script>
</body>
</html>
Try this script out click here
Try creating a page using this code and see what happens. You just have to change the variables in the top portion of this script to suit your needs. The rest of the code will perform based on the variables you edit. Have fun and track your stats with Splash Pages!
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REMOTE SOURCING OF SCRIPTS
There's no question about it, JavaScript's add functionality and fun to any Website. One drawback is they can clutter up your code, and people can take your code right from your page. To fix these issues, you can remotely source your scripts from a directory on your server. This will shorten your page code and your scripts will not be displayed. Of course, in order for the script to work, the visitor will have to download it so they can be found in a browser's temp directory or cache.
 Still, remote script sourcing is great because the script resides in its own file and it's easy to make site-wide changes. So, how do we do this? First off, we need a script. Here's a handy date generator you can use to display the current date on your site (remember, though, the date will be the one that a user's own computer is indicating).
Here's the script code.

<script language="JavaScript">
var monthNames = new Array(
"Jan.","Feb.","March","April","May","June","July","August","Sept.","Oct .","N
ov.","Dec.");
var now = new Date();
document.write(monthNames[now.getMonth()] + " " + now.getDate() + ", " +
2000);
</script>
We could place this on a page and it will show the date where we place it. Or we can source this code like this:


<script language="JavaScript" src='directory/script_name.js'>

 All you need to do is paste your code into a text editor, like NotePad, then save it with the JavaScript extension of ".js" Now place .js file into the right directory on your server and then place the source tag where you want your date to display and presto! This works for single component and multi-part scripts. For example if a two-part script is needed with variables in the top and display in the bottom, you can source the variable portion in one file, and the display portion in another.
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DISPLAYING HTML CODE ON A PAGE

There are a couple of ways to show actual HTML code on a page ... without it actually converting to what has been coded. This is important to know if you want people to display images, text, etc. from your site.
 An example might be a remotely sourced image or logo that you would like others to show on their sites. The best way to display code in HTML format is to use a TEXT AREA Tag. For example, to display HTML code for copying and pasting, place the code inside your Text area Tag:


<!-- BEGIN CODE -->
<form method="post" action="NULL">
<textarea name="text" cols="50" rows="3" Wrap="Virtual">
<font face=arial size=2>This shows the font tag!</font>
</textarea>
</form>
<!--END CODE-->

Note the "wrap" attribute, this causes the text inside the box to wrap and not flow in one straight line.
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