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Vineyard.NET is slowly transitioning towards a more standards compliant website that separates the look and feel of the site from the content.

This is done using a technology called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Unfortunately, support for CSS in older browsers (specifically, anything prior to a version 5.0) ranges from poor and incomplete to simply wrong and painful for both viewers and designers. Ultimately, there is no way to reliably design a CSS-based layout for older web browsers. Vineyard.NET will continue to ensure the overall functionality of its website for older browsers but the overall experience will be a little more spartan than before.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and invite you to consider upgrading your web browser. For what it's worth, we like Mozilla but just about any modern browser, including Internet Explorer, should suffice.

Random Image CGI FAQ

What is, random-image?
Using random-image in your web-site
An example

What is random-image?

random-image is a CGI (common gateway interface) script that allows a user to randomly display a GIF or JPEG image from a collection of images in a special directory

How to use random-image in your web-site.

First, create a directory in your home directory using your favorite FTP client (like fetch for Macintosh or WsFTP for windows). You should name this directory something appropriate, such as images or random_images, but it doesn't really matter. In this directory put a collection of GIF or JPEG images that you wish to have randomized. In the page that you wish to have the random image, insert the HTML code:



<img src=http://www.vineyard.net/cgi-bin/random-image?dir=DIRNAME&user=USERNAME>

Replace DIRNAME with the name of the directory that you created, and USERNAME with your Vineyard.NET username.

An example

Joeuser has created a directory in his home directory named images, and he put the images dog.gif, cat.gif, and fish.jpg into images. Into his web-page he inserted the code:

<img src=http://www.vineyard.net/cgi-bin/random-image?dir=images&user=joeuser>

and from now on, anyone who visits joeuser's website will either see dog.gif, cat.gif or fish.jpg.

Many web-browsers may continue to show the same image even after reloading a page, because they do not intelligently update their cache. Hopefully such difficulties will be addressed in new versions of the product.