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Most free source code, including ours, is designed to teach rather than do a specific job. While we have had "free source code" for some pages since the mid-1990s offered on parts of our site, as of 7/1/2009, we are involved in a major upgrade and rewrite of the section of our site offering them and of the pages themselves. We are making every attempt to make the code easier to use, easier to understand and easier to learn from it. It is a rare occasion in fact, that a free snippet or script actually does what you would like for it to do, without modification. Methodology, formulae, style and presentation are generally what you are looking for. Look at the source code; study it carefully. Some is general and liberal; some is very specific. Make sure that you evaluate how the coding is actually done in your finished product. Most snippets are very "loose" in the coding; they have no error traps and do not have all loose ends tied. That is the sort of thing that search engines (and end users) DO NOT like. Some scripting starting base is also specific. For instance, some JavaScripts will run under JS 1.2 or 1.3 but not lower implementations. The same is true of HTML, DHTML and XML. Our snippets scripts will work just as they are if copied in full. Add in the proper coding for your page (see the minimums below). Once you make changes, test often so that you have an idea what changes may cause problems. If you experience problems with your coding in a script from us, look for errors such as spelling, capitalization (upper and lower case variables are NOT the same variable), variables being defined correctly, functions being activated in the body tag, and browser specific operations (some scripts will NOT run in some browsers and some HTML will be different from one browser to another). The HTML portion of your page should be carefully checked. If you open "something", close it. Go back one or two steps in order to determine what has caused the problem; do this OFTEN so that you can maintain a stable platform. The following is a MINIMUM page for current HTML standards.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<!-- Your name, any credits, as well as specific source info -->
<!-- should go here, along with any detail comments for -->
<!-- others that might follow you or look at the coding. -->
<head>
<title>This will appear on the title line of the browser</title>
<!-- Meta tag information should go here -->
</head>
<body>
There should be only one (1) body statement, along with other information about the beginning of the body, such as loading a particular function or script. You should close it, and other HTML tags. (If you are uncertain about the above Meta tag information, use our HTML META Tag Generator And Calculator to create your own.
</body>
</html>

We have also created many Code Generators (including the Meta Tag Generator above) to help you with the tough parts of many JavaScript and HTML coding specifics; use them to create a model or the actual code you can use. They will save you COUNTLESS hours of troubleshooting and debugging. Many schools, universtities and colleges use them are part of thier curriculum. They are there for YOUR use also.

Scripts generally go in the HEAD area but not always. They may work just as well in the body, they may work better in the body or they may work ONLY in the body but that is what you find out in testing, or can see in our examples. There are also often more ways than one to do things; we have provided at least one. Execution order is important; case sensitivity is mandatory! We have put in specific comments in most of the scripts that are visible when the code is viewed. I want to impress upon you again that while the snippets we have provided do work and do the job stated, they are loose. That means they are probably not error trapped and may not be able to be used directly without additional effort on YOUR part. They may do some things but not EVERYTHING within the scope of what subject they approach. They may not do things the way YOU want them to do things or expect them to do things. There is not implied or expressed ANY statement of fitness for any of these snippets. The primary purpose of them is to teach you through demonstration and exposure. If you use them, you bear the SOLE responsibility of fitness and correctness.

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