Universalis banners
If you run a web site or a blog, you can incorporate the Universalis banner, which shows the feast of the day and links to the Universalis readings for that day:
If you are using a software package to design your web pages, you will need to tell it the following information:
Image location (URL): http://www.universalis.com/banner.gif
Image width: 468 pixels
Image height: 60 pixels
and make the image into a link to http://www.universalis.com
or whatever other Universalis address you want: see How
to Link to Us.
If you write your HTML directly, here is the code you need:
<a href="http://www.universalis.com"> <img src="http://www.universalis.com/banner.gif"alt="Universalis" width="468" height="60" border="0"></a>
The code in red is the code that causes the image to be displayed; the code in black turns the image into a link so that people who click on the image can see the relevant page of Universalis.
You may even be able to right-click on a banner we've shown above and paste it directly into your site editor. That saves you having to think about HTML, but do remember to check that the link to our site is the way you want it to be. See How to Link to Us.
Other sizes
You can make the banner narrower if you like (within reason). To do this, just put the width you want after the word "banner". Here's an example for a banner that's 240 pixels wide:
Image location (URL): http://www.universalis.com/banner240.gif
Image width: 240 pixels
Image height: 60 pixels
<a href="http://www.universalis.com"> <img src="http://www.universalis.com/banner240.gif"alt="Universalis" width="240" height="60" border="0"></a>
A way round the time zone problem
The problem with banners is that they only show one day; and when it's Friday afternoon in America, it's Saturday morning in India. If your site belongs to a particular place, this shouldn't worry you – "the date here" is like "the weather here" and it varies from place to place.
If your site is worldwide, you can solve this problem, at the cost of a little extra space, by having a pair of banners, one 12 hours behind GMT and one 12 hours ahead, like this:
Copyrights and acknowledgements
You'll see that the banner itself incorporates the name of Universalis, so we don't need any more acknowledgements apart from that. We do, however, ask that you make your banners into links to the Universalis site, so that people can easily get at the material we offer.
