Displaying Random Images in an ASP.NET Web Page

As web developers, we most often focus on backend web developer, buring our noses in defining and implementing the business logic, building CRUDs, and designing reports. Rarely are we concerned about maintaining the appearance and style of the website. For developers working in medium- to large-sized companies, this poses no problem as there are graphic designers whose job it is to design a slick layout and periodically update it in order to keep the site from becoming stale. In smaller companies, however, oftentimes the web developer writing the backend code is also the one responsible for maintaining the frontend.

One easy and cost-effective way of keeping a site from becoming stale is to display different images on a page each time it is visited. Many corporate websites use this technique on their homepages. For example, the homepage might have a picture of a facility or employees in the upper right hand corner. Rather than showing a single, static picture, each time the homepage is visited a randomly selected image is displayed.

There are a couple of ways to display random images, and this article will look at two different approaches. The first technique covered in this article is to simply display a randomly selected image file from a directory of files. This simplistic approach is easy to implement but is limited in a number of ways. We"ll also look at a more professional approach that utilizes a free, open-source ContentRotator control I created back in September 2005. With the my ContentRotator control where you can specify what images, exactly, are candidates for being displayed as well as how likely a particular image should be selected relative to the other images in the image set. Read on to learn more!
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>>Publish Date: 10/8/2007 10:20:24 PM
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