First off I wanted to thank everyone for there support. You are all a huge
help being that I just started looking at tango on Friday and as of today I
have something that is actually working. Does the @random function make the
images rotate at an even amount or is it totally random like the random
function of javascript, where the same picture can show up twice in a row
and not an even amount.
Just to show you what I am working on check out

http://action2.edudirectories.com/sab_tango/test/collegeabroad.taf

If you refresh a couple times you can see the ads rotate now.

Again I would like to thank everyone for their help.

Sincerely

Michael Dittbrenner

On 3/18/03 11:41 AM, "Nicholas Froome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I second the suggestion to use Witango to rotate the banners. It'd make
> everything simpler - development, imnplementation, logging, etc. It'd also be
> a great way to learn the ins & outs of Witango
> 
> I use the @RANDOM tag to display random header images like this:
> 
> <img src=/wide/<@RANDOM LOW=1 HIGH=@@Domain$WideNumber>.jpg WIDTH=484
> HEIGHT=68 BORDER=0 ALIGN=top>
> 
> There's nothing particularly clever about this - except that the HIGH number
> (in other words the number of Random images) is held in a Domain Scope
> variable. As this randow header code appears in 50 or 60 TAFs, changing the
> number of images would be a big job - so I store the number in a variable that
> can easily be changed site-wide
> 
> To me this is classic Witango elegance and you'd lose this kind of integration
> by using another advert rotation scheme
> 
> Of course you can also <@INCLUDE> Witango variables into poages - and these
> might contain Nav bars, sidebars, logos, etc
> 
> 
> 
>> You will need to use the @URL tag rather than the
>> @include tag. The web server will only process one
>> cgi program per page. That cgi program would be
>> Witango in this case. It would ignore your mgi code.
>> 
>> However, the @URL tag would work fine but be a
>> little slower since it has to resolve the URL twice
>> per page. An alternative would be to use Witango
>> to rotate your banners. :)
> 
> 
> 
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