I think it's a great idea to do the front page project. My only concern would be if it would significantly increase bandwidth usage. Pics take quite a bit more than a text page does.
Hi T (indeed a nice avatar
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Bandwidth depends on which solution you choose for displaying pictures. If you choose to display several pictures during a visitor's stay on the homepage (HP), you would need to download (or pre-load for better performance) several pictures. However, when you display only one random pic everytime somebody visits the HP, bandwith is not an issue since most pics only take a few kilobytes.
As I recall, earlier in this thread, someone provided the PHP coding to make this a possibility. So if everyone agrees that this would be a good thing, then as a member's site, let's go for it!
Concerning the scripting: there are 2 possibilities: 1) server-side (e.g. PHP) or 2) client side scripting (e.g. javascript). In my opinion solution 2 is easier to implement, but harder to maintain. Solution 1 could be a generic script that just reads pictures from a folder and generates an HTML page with a random picture.
