Be aware that many browsers blocks javascripts from sites without a certificate. and it makes the page slower, because it has to load more urls. It would be more efficient to in php (if possible) and make it a real server issue.
In php, it is quite simple, to make an algorithm, that e.g. displays msg a, for the first 3 minutes of an hour, then message B etc. The messages themself would be html sniplets. Going down that route would make graphic pretty simple (just the normal image tag). Jan. On 23 November 2012 18:26, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > Currently our website has a header, controlled by > ooo-site/brand.mdtext, that we use to promote special events and > announcements. This header shows up on every page on the website, > except for wiki and other non-static web pages. > > This header is our single most effective way to promote things. It > gets 750K+ views per day. This is far more than our blog, Twitter, > mailing lists, Facebook, etc., combined. > > However, this position currently can carry only a single message at a > time. So when we have several messages in quick succession, we need > to halt the old announcement and replace it with a new one. For > example, when I added the marketing volunteers, I had to stop the call > for QA volunteers. Juergen has a call for translators coming, and > that will likely cause us to halt the marketing call for volunteers. > And we want to put up a FOSDEM call for papers soon as well. > > So the way we're using this it is all or nothing. A message either > gets 750K views a day or it gets nothing. > > I think this is not optimal. It is natural for us to have several > ongoing promotions, and it would be sufficient if we could more > effectively share that space. > > One idea might be to not have a static message in brand.mdtext, but > encode several messages in a Javascript file, a JSON object that lists > all the current messages along with their weighting. Then we could > have our website header show a random message, respecting the weights. > A high weighted message would get more views than a lower weighted > one. But even 10% of 750K is a lot more views that our blog will > receive. > > Does this make sense? > > Any other ideas? Any ideas on how to implement this? > > Another idea is to allow graphical as well as the current text-only > promotions. A banner graphic can be even more effective. > > Regards, > > -Rob >
