Lorem Ipsum

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing, typesetting and graphic design industries. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Why do we use it?

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ´Content here, content here, making it look like readable English.Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ´lorem ipsum will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose.

A common form of lorem ipsum text reads as follows:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Revolver Maps

I added 'Revolver Maps' to the site about two weeks ago and I am happy with it's performance thus far.

Revolver Maps are interactive visitor globes rendered by the Revolver Engine. The Revolver Graphics Engine is a strongly specialized 3D renderer. It's available as a Java version as well as a Flash version. Now have a closer look: Every visitor leaves an eternal dot on the globe, recent visitors are tagged by the labels showing flag, city and state.

Providing live statistics to see where your audience is in real time, as well as long term records.

Customize Your Earthball

1. Select A Map

2. Choose Dimensions:

3. Choose Marker Color:

4. Advanced Settings:

• visitor counter

• recent hits

• stars

• custom background color

choose code version:

Flash version via JavaScript, display Java version if Flash Player is not installed (recommended)
Flash version via HTML (MySpace etc.)

[more code options for experts]

5. Copy The Code To Your Site...*

All in all I think Recolver Maps is a nifty tool and useful for tracking site traffic.

You can make your own at
Revolver Maps - Home 

Refresh Page Html/Java Scripts

Reload All By Itself

This one's nice and easy. I'll give you the code. Copy and paste it into the document you wish to reload. Once in there, change the number of seconds you wish the page to wait before starting the reloading process. This code goes in between the HEAD tags.


<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="15"> Right now, the command is set to reload every 15 seconds. I checked a couple of online sites and they were all set about the same. I found the sites displaying stock information were set to around five minutes or 300 seconds.
I don't have a refresh on this page because the darn thing would just keep refreshing and there's nothing on this page that will update.

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Reload From A User's Click

I've seen this done a number of ways, but this is my favorite because it, again, forces the browser to load from the server. It is true that pages can become cached if they are reloaded a great many times, but I have had pretty good success with this. Here's the code:


<A HREF="javascript:history.go(0)">Click to refresh the page</A> Rather than using a refresh command, I like to go to the history of the page and set it to zero. The zero is the current page since in JavaScript, lists (arrays) are numbered starting with zero. Here's the same effect in a button:

And the code:
<FORM>
<INPUT TYPE="button" onClick="history.go(0)" VALUE="Refresh">
</FORM>

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Use the Full URL?

Again, it's possible that a page using the methods shown above can get cached and can stop reloading from the server. A Webmaster friend told me that if you simply set up a link to the current page but use the entire URL, the page would always reload from the server because the request starts at the domain. For example, the full URL of this page is:


http://anintrospectiveworld.blogspot.com/2012/07/refresh-page-htmljava-scripts.html If you use that full URL in each of the elements above, you'll lessen the chance the page will cache. Thus, the Meta Refresh would become:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="5; URL=http://anintrospectiveworld.blogspot.com/2012/07/refresh-page-htmljava-scripts.html">
You would then change out the JavaScript formats above to simply go to the URL rather than looking at the history file. In fact, you could lose the JavaScript altogether and just make a simple A HREF link right to the current page. The trick is to use the full URL address so that the process starts at the very beginning.
Again, the effect is the same as you'll get with the code above. It just lowers the chance of the page getting stuck in cache.