Controlling Images

whgill · whgill

Good afternoon,

I'm looking for a method to fulfill a mandate given to me recently. I have
been directed to "replace" our initial webpage (home page) on our Intranet with
a "temporary" image that will display for 15 to 20 seconds and then be replaced
with our standard webpage so that the users can "carry on" with their work. In
other words, have a JPEG picture display for 15 seconds, then disappear and be
replaced with our standard Welcome.html page. I've looked in some DreamWeaver
manuals here, and I can't find anything that seems to be able to do this for me
- but then again, I don't know "what" it is I'm looking for, so the task
becomes a bit difficult to fulfill.
The image that they want me to display is simply a picture image (a JPEG
image) with a brief message in it. The administration is VERY specific about
using THIS particular image. They have said that I can, however, do something
to cause this to ONLY display once per session (drop a cookie down to the user
perhaps?) so that this graphic image is seen only once per browser session.
I'm making an *assumption* that there is a method in DreamWeaver to do this,
or perhaps some nifty Java script floating around that might do a timed display
of some image and then complete the rest of the page for processing. What I
want to do is place some code into our Welcome.html page that will check for
some cookie in the user's brower and if it does not exist, display this JPEG,
drop a cookie into their browser, and then finish the processing of the
Welcome.Html page. - and I want the cookie to expire when the user exits the
browser.
Can anyone out there help with this? Can you point me to the right direction?
I'd be most appreciative.

Thanks and have a great weekend

Howard

jdsuave2003 · jdsuave2003

Well, I'm no expert by any means, but a simple way to do it would be to place a
flash on your index page that plays upon loading the page, and simply have 15
seconds of the same frame, and then when its over, the flash frame would
dissappear. (without going through the hastle of making a seperate page just
for the index to have a flash file, and then a second index which is your
actual home page, you'll probably want to just layer your index page and have
the flash file play in the front-most layer of the page, and have the condition
set to close upon finish of playback). Let me know if it works!

Css Lover · Css Lover

Best to use a redirect page, which would be there for a fixed number of seconds
when the jpeg or image is displayed and then 'bounce' the user to the home page.

For redirect code, use this, not sure of xhtml as of yet
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH"
content="0;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com"></HEAD>
<BODY>
Optional page text here.
</BODY>
</HTML>

Code Description:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="15;
url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html">

The content ="15; means the browser will wait 15 seconds, change as needed.

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