Display different image on homepage

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I want to display a different picture on the homepage, everytime someone visits the homepage. I am using dreamweaver and I am sh ite at HTML.

DonkeyStyle \o/

There are a lot of ways of doing it, but I'd say the easiest way is to google for a free javascript that'll do it.
Then all you have to do is copy & paste it into the html with only a few basic modifications needed.

GoneShootin

If you have access to a MySQL database you could use the RAND() function to return a truly random image each time a page is loaded.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Well... there's easy and there's tidy

GoneShootin

Mine's both

hostyle

GoneShootin wrote:

Mine's both

You call adding the extra overhead of using a database for something this simple "tidy and simple" ?

How about putting all the images (for our example we'll use 5) named masthead_01.jpg to masthead_05.jpg in an images/ sub-directory. We'll use PHP for this example, but something similar can be achieved just as easily in most languages.

[php]
<img src="images/masthead_0<?php $random = rand(1,5); echo $random; ?>.jpg" />
[/php]

GoneShootin

hostyle wrote:

You call adding the extra overhead of using a database for something this simple "tidy and simple" ?

Compared to messy aul Javascript or DHTML yes. But I like your solution too

DonkeyStyle \o/

GoneShootin wrote:

Mine's both

Well keep in mind the OP admits to a pretty poor knowledge of html... so I doubt there's any sql or php knowledge there either... 'easy' is a pretty relative term.

Compared to messy aul Javascript or DHTML yes.

There shouldn't be anything really that messy about a JS that'll do this... using something like document.write on the client side to achieve basically what hostyle's example does on the server side.
It's a good enough way of doing it if you've only got the most basic of hosting. (ie. no server side scripting at all)
And of course it's not really accessable, but for a beginner the page is probably not going to be in the first place.
Although certainly use hostyles example if you can.

LegacyUser

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

There are a lot of ways of doing it, but I'd say the easiest way is to google for a free javascript that'll do it.
Then all you have to do is copy & paste it into the html with only a few basic modifications needed.

your best bet