Could someone give a short list of pros and cons for using a "last updated" javascript like Mona has asked about? Like, I have many pages in many sub-sections. But once I put up a Will for John XXX in the sub-folder "Wills", there's rarely reason to do anything more with "that" page. It's written once and updated/changed never. I may add another Will for George ZZZ but other than changing the index.htm page for that folder to add in the new Will, George ZZZ's will page would rarely if ever change. So should the "last updated" javascript just be put on the main index.htm and on the sub-sections' index.htm pages? Or is it of any value to add this script at all? Wouldn't it just be as easy to use a bottom "include" and type something like "This site is updated weekly or monthly with additional material" ? Judy On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Mona <HeritageHunt@sandyviewinfo.net> wrote: > Can someone please tell me where I can find the script to have Rootsweb > automatically add the "this page was updated" notice at the bottom of my > index page? > > Thanks! > > Mona > --

I agree - having the script on every page is not useful. Actually, it can look like you don't update stuff. I have it on pages that do get updated, such as the main page, the index pages to submissions and the resource page. I will put a copyright date on a new addition (such as a publication scan/transcript) showing when the information was placed on the site. Changing that date automatically every year is lot logical to me. If I change the page for some reason, than I can manually change the copyright information. Most pages, as you suggest, don't get touched again. Susan Lackawanna Co. PAGenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/ On 1/9/2010 9:31 AM, J.A. Florian wrote: > Could someone give a short list of pros and cons for using a "last updated" > javascript like Mona has asked about? > > Like, I have many pages in many sub-sections. But once I put up a Will for > John XXX in the sub-folder "Wills", there's rarely reason to do anything > more with "that" page. It's written once and updated/changed never. I may > add another Will for George ZZZ but other than changing the index.htm page > for that folder to add in the new Will, George ZZZ's will page would rarely > if ever change. > > So should the "last updated" javascript just be put on the main index.htm > and on the sub-sections' index.htm pages? > > Or is it of any value to add this script at all? Wouldn't it just be as > easy to use a bottom "include" and type something like "This site is updated > weekly or monthly with additional material" ? > > Judy