If you haven’t yet, don’t forget to include your vote for the new banner. Some people are ranking them, others are giving 1 or 2 favourites. Whichever design gets the most support will become the new banner for this site. FYI – to the best of my knowledge, I can’t use more than one (but if that ever changes then I will certainly do that).
Go vote!
Eric says
If you want to do rotating banners in the future, here is an excellent “how to” on the javascript coding behind it. http://www.tutorialcode.com/javascript/rotating-banners/
Crommunist says
Thanks. I will suggest it to our webguru.
aspidoscelis says
PZ’s Scienceblogs copy of Pharyngula loads a randomly chosen banner from a set each time the page is loaded / refreshed; I don’t know how it’s done on the SB Pharyngula, but this code does the same thing:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”Javascript”>
function image() { };
image = new image();
number = 0;
image[number++] = “<img src=’banner1.jpg’ border=’0′ alt=”>”
image[number++] = “<img src=’banner2.jpg’ border=’0′ alt=”>”
image[number++] = “<img src=’banner3.jpg’ border=’0′ alt=”>”
increment = Math.floor(Math.random() * number); document.write(image[increment]);
</SCRIPT>
Sticking something like this in is dead simple if you’re just editing html manually. Messing with the blogging software might make it substantially more complex, but I wouldn’t know.
The linked article above does something different–it changes the banner at a set time interval. Which is preferable is a matter of taste, I suppose.