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Random Hyperlinked Images

Hyperlinking random images is an quick and easy way to make a page look unique from others in the same template and enables you to highlight specific places within your website (or others) you want to drive traffic to. The following example contains links to seven of the most popular search engines and their logos. Each time the page is refreshed the script will select a random number from one to seven and dynamically write the appropriate image and hyperlink to the browser.

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<%
' Sets the upper limit for the random number
limit=7
' Redim allows for arrays to be setup by passing a numeric value
' rather than hardcoding the numeric value for the limit multiple times
redim link(limit)
redim image (limit)

' List of images and links
link(1)="http://www.yahoo.com"
image(1)="http://us.yimg.com/images/yahoo.gif"

link(2)="http://www.excite.com"
image(2)="http://www.excite.com/mesp/images/excite/new_logo-180.gif"

link(3)="http://www.lycos.com"
image(3)="http://a284.g.akamai.net/7/284/987/000/lygo.com/ly/i/lyguide.gif"

link(4)="http://www.cnet.com"
image(4)="http://cnet.com/Images/Headers/cnet-1-title.gif"

link(5)="http://www.go.com"
image(5)="http://www.go.com/images/hp/go_logo_121_58.gif"

link(6)="http://www.webcrawler.com"
image(6)="http://webcrawler.com/img/web/hdr/home_header.gif"

link(7)="http://www.go.com"
image(7)="http://www.go.com/images/hp/go_logo_121_58.gif"

' produces the randome number from 1 to the value of limit
randomize
random=int(rnd*limit)+1

'Writes the randomly selected hyperlink and image to the browser
%>
<center>
<a href="<%= link(random) %>">
<img src="<%= image(random) %>" border="0"></a>