Advanced: Add a Random Quote to Your Page

How would you like your site to be slightly different every time a visitor comes to your page? It's fairly simple to insert a random quote or joke on your page.

The key is a special Freeservers.com HTML tag, the ISML tag.

First, create a text file with each quote that you want to use on a separate line. To see a sample text file, click here.

In your HTML file, find the place you want the random quote to appear, and insert the following code (use the name of your text file instead of quotes.txt):

<ISML type=file src=quotes.txt line=random>

Save your work and upload the necessary files to your site. Now, each time you view the page, a random quote will be displayed, such as this:

"I'll be back." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Refresh the page to see a different quote.

You can put text formatting around the ISML tag and it will apply to the text brought in by the tag. If you want to get a bit more ambitious, you can include HTML formatting in your text file to format the quotes, or even include an image. Remember, though, that each one must be on a separate line.