On my portfolio website I have an About page, where I explain… who I am of course! So I have a picture of myself in the sidebar, but got the idea that it’d be nice to have the picture change randomly on page load. I looked around at a few different options. Some were Javascript, some were PHP. It wasn’t worth turning the page into a PHP page just for this effect, so I went with Javascript. There are a lot of different options, but here’s the one I went with.

I made a div to surround the image, with the class of “me-box”. I gave this div a border, so the images will all appear to have a border when they are loaded. Next comes the Javascript code. This is where you give the src to your images. This code is put right in the body of your page where you want the images to appear, not in he head tag. A quick little piece of code that got the job done exactly like I wanted!

See the random image loading in action.