Once The Random Image
Display program has been successfully installed on your website, you
will need to perform three steps.
Please follow the
directions outlined in the next three steps to ensure your Random Image
Display works on your website.
STEP ONE
Copy and paste the
following HTML below into each HTML page that you want to have a random
image displayed.
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/ranimage.cgi"-->
STEP
TWO
After you have copied and
pasted the HTML into your pages, now you need to change the extension of
every page that includes this HTML from a .html or .htm file to a .shtml
extension. In other words, if you have an HTML page named index.html
that uses this random image display, then you need to rename the file to
include the .shtml extension.
The reason this step is necessary is so the server knows to interpret a
server-side include within the document. This is a line of code that the
server must execute and place in your HTML file before someone views the
document.
FINAL STEP
When you install Random Images on your
account, you specify a directory to contain the images to display when
you use the Random Images code. You must now upload the images to be
displayed into this directory. You can upload GIF or JPG image files,
and the program will randomly select from all of the image files within
this directory, regardless of the number of files it contains.
TIPS
When using the random
image program, it is best to use images of the same height and width.
This will ensure that any image selected by the program will be the same
size.
The program places an image tag in your HTML document. This image tag
has no border and does not specify a height and width. The alternate
text displayed is just the name of the image selected. For example, lets
say you have 20 images in your random image directory and the image
sky.jpg is selected. Assuming you specified the directory randomimage
as the directory to contain your images, the line below would be the
line of code displayed by the program:
<IMG SRC="/randomimage/sky.jpg" ALT="sky.jpg">
Do not put more than 1,000 images in your ranimage directory, as this
will greatly slow down the program and have a negative impact on the
load time of your website.
