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bzmhmommy
04-08-2007, 10:21 AM
Does anyone have any idea why my "date last modified" function at the bottom of this page http://www.beckwith-wiedemann.info/index.html is working, but the one at the bottom of this page http://www.beckwith-wiedemann.info/q_and_a.html is not?? I've copied and pasted the code from the index page to the "q-and-a" page, yet only the one on the index page works. I'm totally confused. Any help will be greatly appreciated.



-Julie
jscheuer1
04-08-2007, 03:48 PM
The one that doesn't work looks like so:


<p align="right"><font face="Century Gothic" size="1" color="#000099">this page
last modified: </font><font face="Century Gothic" size="1">
<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="&#37;d/%m/%Y" --></font></p>

The one that does work:


<p align="right"><font face="Century Gothic" size="1" color="#000099">
this page
last modified: </font><font face="Century Gothic" size="1">
<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d/%m/%Y" startspan -->06/04/2007<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" i-checksum="12566" endspan --></font></p>

I imagine the server has inserted the date (06/04/2007). Apparently the endspan comment is required or else the startspan comment will not work.

It may be a little more complicated as there is a checksum involved. This appears to be a FrontPage extension. If so, for best results, it should be inserted using FrontPage, not a text editor. But, I'd try using:


<p align="right"><font face="Century Gothic" size="1" color="#000099">
this page
last modified: </font><font face="Century Gothic" size="1">
<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d/%m/%Y" startspan -->
<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" i-checksum="12566" endspan --></font></p>

on the problem page, just to see if it works.
bzmhmommy
04-08-2007, 05:14 PM
Thanks John. It was indeed inserted via FrontPage. Now I'm using Expression Web which is the Vista version of FrontPage. Unfortunately the timestamp isn't offered with Expression Web so I thought I might be able to get the timestamp to work by figuring out the code. It's weird that the timestamp didn't get altered in the index page when I did updates on Expression Web, but it did in the other pages. In any case, I'll try your suggestion and see if it works. Thanks a bunch!

-Julie