WebDesign&Such

Websites need to have the copyrights on them. Usually this is found in the footer of the site. As I was updating a client’s site the other day I noticed his copyright info was still 2009; so I updated it in the template, applied it to the pages, and re-uploaded everything to the live site.

One of the worst things you can do with your website is to not make updates once it’s live. Fresh content is the only thing that will keep your users AND search engines returning. One of the best ways to let users know that you never update your website (saaarcasm), is to have a copyright in the footer of your website from 2003. It really is a pain to have to go in at the first of every year to update all of your client’s websites though. Luckily, Javascript can save us. Using Javascript we can add a copyright to the webpage that will automatically update with the current year. Check out the demo, and then keep reading to grab the code.

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The other day I was cutting and coding a website for a bank. One feature that was in the header was the current date, which would update daily (duh). I know in a previous project I had done this with Javascipt, so I back-tracked and got the code I used before. Here is the code, which will print the date on your web page in the following format:
July 18, 2009

The first step is to link your XHTML page to the external Javascript page, which has the code which will make it all happen. Paste the code below in the Head of your page.

Link to external Javascript File

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/date.js"></script>

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