[sdilley14]

Hey, just wondering if anyone knows where I could find a JavaScript or some other code for a professional, clean, small calendar and clock to put on the website I'm developing. Not a big deal but I'd like to add a professional looking clock and/or calendar to add another neat looking element to the page. The page is almost finished and it's looking excellent. The page is actually for a financial firm I work for (mortgage company to be particular), so if anyone has any other elements I should add or other suggestions things to add for this sort of website, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!
-Shane D.

[registered_user]

Don't take this the wrong way, but a clock is probably the best way to waste space on a web site.

Perhaps as much as a hit counter.

I have the time and date at a glance on my computer, why waste real estate on your web site with the time when you could fill it with the stuff a visitor is likely to be interested in: relevant content?

[SirCastor]

I agree with Registered user, It's a waste of space and computing cycles (Albeit, very few...) to have a clock on your site. If you specifically needed it for some reason, such as "This is the time our clock is set at" in which case you wouldn't want it to be Javascript anyway.

As for the calendar, displaying the day month and year is more appropriate.

[sdilley14]

I just wanted a small clock with the day's date on it just to put in a little empty corner on the page. Something small, professional looking, and unintrusive.

Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - 2:12 P.M. CST

Something like that. Standard text, small, nothing flashy or complicated. I'll put it on the edge of the page somewhere most likely.

Thanks!

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by sdilley14

I was thinking a very small clock...like [---------] that big. Just a little touch to add to an empty corner of the page or something. I suppose I'll keep thinking about it. It'll be very unintrusive and small.

The other problem is that you'll probably need to wrap the clock in a div tag and have the div block reload/refresh periodically. All of this puts a small load on both the server and the browser. What do you gain from this? Not much...

I've developed a little visual calendar thing in PHP, but I'm not sure if it could be adapted for your site. What were you hoping the calendar would do, simply color in the current date within a calendar of the current month? Anything more?

[besson3c]

Here is what my calendar script looks like:

http://www.netmusician.org/webkitdemo/itinerary.php

[sdilley14]

I like that calendar. I guess I was more so looking for a simple date and time stamp. Our industry revolves around the 9-5 p.m. hours with every formal holiday off. Though the functionality is pretty minimal, I thought it might be nice having a small time stamp on the frills of the page, incase someone was surfing our site and wanted to come to our office or call us, they chould take a glance and see that we were closed for the day or open or whatever. I may just nix the idea all together. No one seems to be able to grasp the logic in it...maybe it is a bad idea.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by sdilley14

I like that calendar. I guess I was more so looking for a simple date and time stamp. Our industry revolves around the 9-5 p.m. hours with every formal holiday off. Though the functionality is pretty minimal, I thought it might be nice having a small time stamp on the frills of the page, incase someone was surfing our site and wanted to come to our office or call us, they chould take a glance and see that we were closed for the day or open or whatever. I may just nix the idea all together. No one seems to be able to grasp the logic in it...maybe it is a bad idea.

Does your site/server support the PHP language? You can do this easily with a bit of PHP.

[sdilley14]

Yup, it supports PHP. However, I have NO knowledge of PHP. Like I said, I'm by no means a pro, lol. Are there any easy PHP tutorials to follow?

[registered_user]

name the page with .php instead of .html and do this:

<?php echo date("Y-m-d"); ?>

that'll about do it.

details about Y-m-d are here: http://us2.php.net/date

[besson3c]

I like to use:

<?php
echo date ('F j, Y h:i A');
?>

Like registered_user said, you can substitute your own date format just by checking out the URL he provided.

[sdilley14]

Awesome. Thanks guys!