In my company’s Intranet site, my group maintains an extensive site of it’s own to disseminate research papers and installation instructions. I was looking for a way to make the opening page “look” fresh all the time even if the content was behind the times.

I had been wanting to learn JavaScript and this seemed like a ready-made application. I looked all over the web for something similar but everyone had the same 5 applications. Enjoy!

• What you are looking for is in the background and the masthead. I wrote a little ditty that changes the Background Color based on the month. For example, White (FFFFFF) in January or Vomit Yellow (E6E600) in February. .
• There is a second script that changes the JavaScript image at the top based on the day of the week.

Remember in JavaScript that zero (Ø) is the first logical number so Sunday or January corresponds to zero.

Following is the code for the page.

Last update: 30 March 2001