Google Set Homepage Script

[jscheuer1]

Since I posted I tried this out, this is all you need, goes in the body:

<span id=hp style="behavior:url(#default#homepage)"></span>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<!--
if (!hp.isHomePage('http://www.google.com/')) {document.write("<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"style.behavior='url(#default#homepage)';setHomePage('http://www.google.com/');window.location.href=window.loction.href;return false;\">Make Google Your Homepage!</a>");}
//-->
</script>

However, both instances of:

http://www.google.com/

must be changed to your domain or page and be identical to each other as well as to the domain root or (if doing a page) to the address that shows in the address bar. It must be live on the page. If you are doing a domain, it must be live in the root of the domain. As mentioned before, it is IE only. Of course, you should also change:

Make Google Your Homepage!

To text appropriate to your page or domain.

You can also do the root of a subdirectory, following all the same rules as though it were a domain. That last part I only tested on a domain name server so, it may not work if you have a directory on say freewebs or something like that.

[pistolpapa]

I did the same thing! If you go back to the first post of this thread, you see i have the same piece of code. However, it doesn't disappear after you click on the link. And I did change the google.com part to my own domain name.

Does your link disappear after you set the page to be your homepage?

[jscheuer1]

Yes it disappears. Post a link to your page.

And look again, the code is not identical.

[pistolpapa]

Yes it disappears. Post a link to your page.

And look again, the code is not identical.

I was gonna say John you the man!
Then,
Dunno if I did something wrong(I copied and pasted the code into the body of my code), but it doesn't work. The botton of the screen also says "error". You think it's possible to show us your page/link?

[pistolpapa]

When I say disappear I meant,
if the homepage is google.com already, then the page will still show, but just the link itself disappear, any kind of redirect of pages doesn't count. Just wanna clarify.

[jscheuer1]

I made a typo in the second 'location', leaving out the 'a'. This is what caused the error which then cascades into other problems. Here is a working version of my code, the address used is the live page, the link appears in the upper left corner of the page on a dark background, so is hard to see but, it is there:

<span id=hp style="behavior:url(#default#homepage)"></span>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<!--
if (!hp.isHomePage('http://www.statestreetblues.com/2006/index2.html')) {document.write("<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"style.behavior='url(#default#homepage)';setHomePage('http://www.statestreetblues.com/2006/index2.html');window.location.href=window.location.href;return false;\">Make The Blues Stroll Homepage!</a>");}
//-->
</script>

Once you get the code corrected on your page, make sure to clear your cache, reload, and make sure there is no hash (#) in the address bar.

[pistolpapa]

John you the Man!
I tried it and it worked perfectly. I'm sure this piece of code will benefit a lot of people who come here.

[jscheuer1]

Thanks. I was playing around with this just a bit more and discovered there were errors in FF and Opera. Nothing that would 'stop the show' but annoying to any purist. Plus, this code would make any page not validate. If you put IE conditional comments around it, all that goes away and it still works fine in IE, I also added variables that allow you to configure the page or domain and text shown in just one spot (highlighted red):

<!--[if gte IE 5.5]>
<span id=hp style="behavior:url(#default#homepage)"></span>
<script type="text/javascript">
var thePage='http://www.statestreetblues.com/2006/index2.html'
var theText='Make The Blues Stroll Your Homepage!'
if (!hp.isHomePage(thePage)) {document.write("<p><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"style.behavior='url(#default#homepage)';setHomePage(thePage);window.location.href=window.location.href;return false;\">"+theText+"</a>");}

</script>
<![endif]-->

[tech_support]

Nice