Tired of Changing Copyright Year?
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Topic: Tired of Changing Copyright Year?
Posted By: dpyers
Subject: Tired of Changing Copyright Year?
Date Posted: 01 January 2006 at 4:31pm
It's that time of year again when I go around changing the copyright year in the includes for html pages. Don't have to do it for asp pages though as they have this include at the end of the page...
/inc/copyright.asp contains this code...
CSS class looks like this...
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Posted By: site master
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 12:08pm
| never thought about this, i chang the year in the bottom include page |
Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 2:22pm
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i just code in © <%=Year(Date)%><%=Year(Date)%> ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: site master
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 4:16pm
| it will show you the same year all the time... |
Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 6:25pm
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it's the same year all year ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: site master
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 7:15pm
| amm it needs to be the first year the software came out and the currect year no? |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 7:32pm
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Better to use © instead of ©. Works better with XML. Back in the days before I knew better, I made some sites with .htm/.html home pages. Can't change them now to end in a scripting extension like asp, php, or aspx without having to do a lot of redirects for the search engines. For those sites, I have to annually update includes. Now, for windows sites, I try to use a .asp extension on all pages that just contain html to cover extingencies like this. The asp processor on the server can handle html so there's no signigicant time lost. With the php processor, it flip-flops between itself anf the windows server html processor so pure html pages take a little longer to render with a php extension. -------------
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Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 9:17pm
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i agree dpyers. sorry about my post. i didn't see your "copyright.asp" code at first.....i just saw a scroll bar thinking it was an image and wondering what it was doing there. ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 10 January 2006 at 12:34pm
 ive been doing this for .... well as long as i can remember though when i first make a site it has to be static or it'll be "copyright 2006-2006"so i gotta wait a year before i add my dynamic copyright i dont tend to have a "copyright.asp" file, i tend to use "footer.asp" ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 10 January 2006 at 10:28pm
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well you could just do:
<%
if year = year(date) then
response.write © & " " & year
else
response.write © & " " & year & "-" & year(date)
end if
%>
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 10 January 2006 at 10:41pm
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It is kinda pointless to do this at all. If you created a page say in 2000 and it says © 2000 it remains copyrighted for your life + 70 years. So if you make it another 30 it'll be good to the year 2100 even though it still says 2000. Now that is fact when you register it but from what I recall as long as there is no lawsuit there is little difference between registered and non-registered copyrights. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 10 January 2006 at 10:45pm
| methinks we won't still be using the same webpage copyright script in 70 years time.... and that assumes we die right............... now! discussing the longterm (decades) validity of a script in a language that'll no longer be supported in 5 (or less) is rather pointless... |