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If you run a web site or a blog, you can now incorporate the Universalis banner, which shows the feast of the day and links to the Universalis readings for that day:
If you are using a software package to design your web pages, you will need to tell it the following information:
Image location (URL): http://www.universalis.com/banner.gif
Image width: 468 pixels
Image height: 60 pixels
and make the image into a link to http://www.universalis.com.
If you write your HTML directly, here is the code you need:
<a href="http://www.universalis.com"> <img src="http://www.universalis.com/banner.gif"alt="Universalis" width="468" height="60" border="0"></a>
The code in red is the code that causes the image to be displayed; the code in black turns the image into a link so that people who click on the image can see the relevant page of Universalis.
A reader of this page has commented:
I tried right-clicking the real banner, copy then paste into my site, and hey presto, the deed was done - none of this frightful HTML - you could say at the end, if all else fails, try this - and it works like a dream for simpletons, and there are probably a lot of those about!
Just as you can select different local calendars within the main Universalis pages, so you can tell your banner to refer to a specific calendar, if you think that this will be more useful for visitors to your site.
To do this, first navigate to the calendar you want within Universalis and
then look at the address bar in your web browser. After www.universalis.com
you will see a calendar code. For example, if you are looking at the Westminster
diocese, the code will be England.Westminster. So change your image location
appropriately. The new location will be http://www.universalis.com/England.Westminster/banner.gif
and the new HTML code will be
<a href="http://www.universalis.com/England.Westminster/"> <img src="http://www.universalis.com/England/Westminster/banner.gif"alt="Universalis" width="468" height="60" border="0"></a>
Time zones are important because it's never the same day all over the world: whenever it's Tuesday in one part of the world it will be either Monday or Wednesday somewhere else. When you look at a normal page, Universalis uses some clever tricks in Javascript to work out what time zone you are viewing the page in and therefore what day you need. The HTML code we've given you isn't that clever and it will always show you the day in Greenwich Mean Time. There are a couple of ways you can get round this:
If you are running a parish site, the chances are that everyone who reads it
will be in or near that parish, so you can explicitly tell Universalis to use
a different time zone. For example, if you are in the eastern United States
and you aren't using daylight saving time, the banner will be http://www.universalis.com/-0800/banner.gif;
if, on the other hand, you are four hours east of GMT, the banner will be http://www.universalis.com/0400/banner.gif.
If you're really feeling generous, set up two banners, one for GMT-1200 and one for GMT+1200. One or other of them is always going to be right. Here's an example:
You'll see that the banner itself incorporates the name of Universalis, so we don't need any more acknowledgements apart from that. We do, however, ask that you make your banners link to the Universalis site so that anyone who wants to can get at the material we offer.
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