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Have you updated the year in your site's copyright footer?

4 pointsdugmartin5 comments

Just a reminder to update the footers of your sites to 2010 (unless that bit is dynamic in your site).

Aside from wholly static sites, I can't imagine a sensible app/caching setup where that wouldn't be worth making dynamic.

Even for static sites, you could cheat with a touch of Javascript.

Clueless asks: How do you make that dynamic?

Depends on the language you're using. ColdFusion, a language I spend too much time using, would just require putting

    #year(now())#

within a cfOutput tag.

My websites are currently (X)html, CSS and a smattering of Javascript. I have no knowledge of ColdFusion. But thank you for replying.

Sure. In jQuery, something like this would work, if you have a span in your footer with the id "copyright":

    $(function () {
        var today = new Date();
        Q("#copyright").text(today.getFullYear());
    });