In the area I work with (genealogy) a LOT of users have free space on
Rootsweb.com, a sub of Ancestry,com, and they do not support server-side
applications.

Jeff

Axel Berger wrote:
>
>
> Jeff wrote:
> > I have a javascript which sets the last updated notice
> > on my web pages:
>
> Why? Nearly all decent space providers and servers (but not, admittedly,
> the rock bottom cheapo ones) offer Server Side Includes and PHP. The
> same bit of code on my pages is included in an eleven-line footer:
>
> <!--#config timefmt="%Y-%m-%d" -->
> <SPAN CLASS="lefttext">
> &copy; FDP Ortsverband Odenthal 2008,
> <A HREF="/pages/Impressum.shtml">Impressum</A>
> </SPAN>
> <SPAN CLASS="righttext">
> Design:
> <A HREF="mailto:Webmaster@...
> <mailto:Webmaster%40Berger-Odenthal.De>">Axel Berger</A>,
> Stand: <!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED" -->
> </SPAN>
> &nbsp;
>
> That footer is included into the real pages through:
>
> <DIV ID="footer">
> <DIV CLASS="infoot">
> <!--XXXXXXXXXXX Begin Footer includes XXXXXXXXXXX-->
> <!--#include virtual="/base/Footer.shtml" -->
> <!--XXXXXXXXXXXX End Footer includes XXXXXXXXXXXX-->
> </DIV><!-- end .infoot -->
> </DIV><!-- end #footer -->
>
> The date is that of the page, not of the footer include. (I was not too
> sure about that, when I first tried it out.) And yes, the double DIV is
> superfluous here. Of course the date is not an essential that has to
> work for everyone but a nice extra, so there's no real reason not to use
> scripting which may be turned off, but assembling the page on the server
> makes for leaner code.
>
> Axel
>
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