Originally posted by thePurpleGiant:
<STRONG>G'day all,
What I want to do I'm sure is quite simple. When people go to my website:
www.jeremy.burge.com
I want the main page to be randomly selected each time. Say I have like 4 pages, everytime a person goes to my site, it should randomly give them a different one.
I've seen Apple do this on their site a bit when they have different products that come up each time
Thanks for any help
Jeremy</STRONG>
There's another thread about this but it goes this way:
You can do it a few different ways:
1. Client side
A javascript would decide which images and content to pull based on a random number
2. Server-side
An ASP or PHP or [insert server side scripting language of your choice] would:
1. generate a random number for that visitor to show them that page
2. go round robin and show each successive visitor the "next" page
3. show a visitor a particular page based on his browser type or any other HTTP header you can think of
I would try to guarantee (if that's what you want) that a given visitor (if he hit the home page n times where n=number of "random" pages) sees all n pages by [trying to] place a cookie to let your site know which page they awe (you can't guarantee that they were looking or turned their head or hit stop or closed their browser because you have to write the cookie as the 1st thing - or write the cookie on a subsequent page which they may never do).
I'm assuming you're a designer (vs. developer) so tell us exactly what you want and we cna get you started writing the code.
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