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I have been looking for a Javascript countdown, but I haven't had much luck. There are heaps online, but not like the one I need. I need a countdown that lasts 24 hours. After 24 hours, it should restart again.

ASP 500:100 error pages
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301 redirect
Plz keep in mind i'm a noob at this. I need to 301 redirect and i'm on IIS. I went from html to .asp. I read around and noticed the following solution everywhere: * In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect * ...


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How To Handle Web Surfers Who Disable JavaScript

By Michael Kashirin

This article describes how to create a web page that can be viewed by users, who have disabled JavaScript support or whose web browser does not support it.

There are hundreds of millions of Web surfers today. Each of them uses one of multiple web browsers available now. You as a Webmaster create cool web pages that are full of graphics and JavaScript and look very impressive in modern web browsers like Internet Explorer or FireFox. But ask yourself: "What will my cool web page will look like, if the web surfer uses Linx browser (text based) or just disables JavaScript support?" You may think that the number of Linx browser users is quite small today and you can ignore them, but (some) search engine spiders do not support JavaScript either. You cannot ignore search engines in the modern world.

There are some safe ways how to handle search engine spiders and web surfers, who do not support JavaScript, at your web page.

One of the approaches is provided by HTML. It is a NOSCRIPT tag. You can enclose in NOSCRIPT tags HTML code that will be displayed in browsers that do not support scripting. You can place navigation hyperlinks here, if you use JavaScript menu for this purpose. Instead of content, dynamically generated by JavaScript, you can place some static text between NOSCRIPT tags. NOSCRIPT content is invisible for web surfers, who use modern web browsers, but it will be very useful for Linx users and search engine spiders.

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The second, more flexible approach includes using JavaScript. Yes, you can use JavaScript to handle visitors, who do not support JavaScript. It is simple. In the web page, you can place HTML elements with the content that should be visible for those who does not support scripting. Then place at the bottom of the page, place a simple script code that sets the ".style.display" property to "none" for such elements. Therefore, if your web page is viewed in a browser, which supports scripting, script code will be executed and all additional elements become invisible. If your web page is viewed in a browser, which does not support scripting, script code will be ignored.

So, using these simple approaches, you can handle all possible web browsers and provide search engine spiders with additional relevant content, which is very important as well.


About the Author:
Michael Kashirin is a webmaster of TRY-2-FIND.COM Meta Search Engine and LOOK-4IT.COM Meta Search Engine.



The Top 20 Things You Can Do To Make Your Website Accessible

By Rachael Willis

In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed by Congress. The law was designed to protect people with disabilities from being discriminated against, because of a physical or mental disability.

The act was put into place to help guarantee equal opportunity for people with disabilities in any public area - and it covers regulations for employment, transportation, state and local government services, telecommunications, etc.

But what about your Website? Have you done all you can, to assure that your Website is accessible?

Here is a checklist you can use, to determine if your Website is as accessible as it could be. (Note: These actions vary from fairly simple to complex, and this list is not meant to be considered the only options or actions you can take to make your site more accessible).

1. Have you provided a text equivalent for every non-text element on your site? Non-text elements include: images, graphical representations of text (including symbols), animations (including animated GIFs), image map areas, programmatic objects and applets, ASCII art, scripts, spacers, frames, images used for list bullets, buttons, sounds (whether automatic or by user interaction), video, audio tracks of video and stand alone audio files.


2. Have you ensured that any information conveyed with color is also available without it?

3. Are changes in the natural language of all pages on your Website and any text equivalents (such as captions) clearly identified?

4. Are all documents on your Website organized so that they can be read without style sheets?

5. Do you update all equivalents for dynamic content every time you update the dynamic content itself?

6. Have you eliminated any special effects from your Website that cause the screen to flicker?

7. Are you using clear and simple language in all content placed on your Website?

8. If you use images and image maps, are you providing redundant text links for each active region of your server-side image map?

9. If you use images and image maps, are you providing client-side image maps (instead of server-side) whenever possible?

10. When using data tables, have you identified the row and column headers?

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About the Author:
Rachael Willis is the webmaster of http://www.infoproductscentral.com and the publisher of "The Genuine Truth" newsletter.

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