Bed and Breakfast Travel - How 2 Create Random Jokefile

You make the Random Page Generator in three stages

- First you 'install the Jimco FrontPage^© addin for their Spawn function [a popup window generator, cross browser compatible]
- Make sure each of your page contains the timeout function.
- Next you populate the generator script below with the location and number of pages. Basically the Generator will become more random the more pages it uses.
That's it!

Timeout Function:
If you want the page popup to go away after 10 seconds the BODY tag of EACH page to be displayed must contain the code:
onLoad="setTimeout('self.close();', 10000);"
You can adjust the time.

Get the Spawn function here
http://www.jimcoaddins.com/
[This link will open a new window. Close after getting and installing the addin.]

Spawn must be added to your copy of FrontPage^© or none of this will work.

Highlight the script below and copy/paste to the HEAD section of your working page
[This starts the spawn function]

Next is the Random Page Generator

Highlight the page below and copy/paste it to a NEW page called random.html

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<title>Random Page Generator</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">

<!-- Begin
var howMany = 5;  // max number of items listed below [from "0"]
var page = new Array(howMany+1);

page[0]="joke1.html";
page[1]="joke2.html";
page[2]="joke3.html";
page[3]="joke4.html";
page[4]="joke5.html";

function rndnumber(){
var randscript = -1;
while (randscript < 0 || randscript > howMany || isNaN(randscript)){
randscript = parseInt(Math.random()*(howMany+1));
}
return randscript;
}
quo = rndnumber();
quox = page[quo];
window.location=(quox);
// End -->
</SCRIPT>

</head>

</body>

</html>

random.html edit instructions

- change 'var howMany = 5;' to the number of pages you will be displaying [+1 as you're starting at 0]
- change parameter 'page[0-n]' to the location of the page[s] you want displayed. In my example the pages are in the same folder as random.html. Remember to keep the numbers sequential!

Now - To start it running
Insert this on your web page where you want the user to select your random pages.
Change '../random-jokes/' to the location of your random page generator.

Test locally before publishing to web to make sure all the links/scripts are working.
Good Luck!