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[laura]

I have been trying to produce an intranet for the past few months for a
small company. I'm almost there with it - it has some ASP, some JavaScript
and about 18 HTML pages.

What I need help on right now is this. They want to be able to have a very
short, two sentences maybe, Daily Notice on the home page of the intranet.
They will not have anyone there who can amend the intranet on a frequent
basis, so I thought I would try to do something like having a text file
which they can easily update and copy into the right directory on the server
and although I can do this using INCLUDE PAGE on an ASP page and picking up
the text and dumping it into a <div> </div> with scroll bars - I cannot seem
to be able to think of a way of doing it on the index.htm home page as this
is not and ASP page.

Is there any way in HTML to be able to read the contents of a text file into
the browser or can anyone suggest a better way of having this Daily Notice
type of thing work with current text on the home page of the intranet?

Hope this is not too confusing..
Laura TD

 

[Tom Gahagan]

cruise some of the asp script sites for a quote of the day script.... I know
there are some out there and it would seem that this would be pretty close
to what you want to do.

you might check at:

www.hotscripts.com
www.planet-source-code.com

www.aspin.com
is a directory of asp resources that might lead you to something.

Best to you.........
Tom Gahagan

 

[laura]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm familiar with the sites you recommended,
which is why I am able to achieve what I want, using ASP, but not on the
home page, "index.htm" because it's not an ASP page. Can the home page be an
ASP file, or does it have to be .HTM. - as far as I'm aware it has to be
..HTM.

Laura

 

[Ronx]

The home page can be index.asp, provided the server has index.asp in
its list of acceptable default file names. Check this with the server
administrator. index.asp can be added to that list if the
administrator is willing to do so.

 

[laura]

This might be the answer although I was also wondering if "include page"
would work somehow - can "include page" be a txt file or does it have to be
HTML?

 

[Ronx]

A FrontPage include page must be HTML, also it is only
included/updated when:
1) The containing page is saved
2) The web is published or recalculated (Open the web in FrontPage
then
Tools->Recalculate Hyperlinks).
3) The include page is saved within an open FrontPage web.

This would make it impractical for your purposes.

 

[laura]

Thank you very much for the explanation - much appreciated.
Laura