Q:
I have gathered sayings of what Saints and others have said about
the Eucharistic Lord. I want to have a random selection of the quotes
like you have (see Random
Quotes), but I don't know how you did the page. Does each meditation
go on a different page? How does a particular page turn up when
I click on the link? I don't get how I can make it random.
~ Cindy
First of all,
each quote goes on a separate page. It's best to name each page
in a sequential order, such as quote1.htm, quote2.htm, quote3.htm,
etc.
After that,
it gets tricky, because now you have to use JavaScript. You insert
the JavaScript into the html codes. Here's how:
1.
After the <head> tag, insert the following, substituting
the sample URL with the full URL of the Random Links page.
<BASE
HREF="http://www.domain.org/quotes.htm">
2.
After the </head> tag and before the <body> tag, make
a blank line and insert the the following Javascript (copy from
here and paste it in):
<script
language="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide this script from old browsers --
var links
= new Array(10)
links[0] = "quote1.htm"
links[1] = "quote2.htm"
links[2] = "quote3.htm"
links[3] = "quote4.htm"
links[4] = "quote5.htm"
links[5] = "quote6.htm"
links[6] = "quote7.htm"
links[7] = "quote8.htm"
links[8] = "quote9.htm"
links[9] = "quote10.htm"
function go() {
var a = 1+Math.round(Math.random()*10)
var i = a
location = links[i]
}
// -- End Hiding Here -->
</script>
3.
After the <body> tag, where you put the link your visitors
will click on to get their random quote, use this (substituting
the words "click here" with whatever is your linking
text or image):
<a
href="javascript:go()">click here</a>
I colored
the number 10 red
in two places, because this number will vary, according to how
many pages of quotes you have. If you have 15 pages, change the
number in both places to 15.
If you have
more than 10 pages, you must add to the list of links:
After
links[9] = "quote10.htm"
add
links[10] = "quote11.htm"
and so on.
If you have
less than 10 pages, you must delete some from the end of the list
that you see in this sample.
Also, make
sure that your quote pages are located in the same directory as
the starter page that contains this Javascript. The starter page
is the one with the link people click on to get the random quotes.
See mine
as an example. This is the only page you put the Javascript into.
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EXTRA TIPS
This
is just one sample of working with a JavaScript. There are other
types of randomizing you can do, such as playing random midi files,
random graphics, random links and random text. Find the JavaScript
that does what you want your website to do by searching through
websites that give our free scripts.
Sources
of free Java and JavaScripts:
• Javascripts
• Freecode
• Code
Generators
• JavaScript
Source
• WebMonkey
If
any of these links go bad, please report
it!
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