Hello everyone. I ran this little code by MG and a few others in the know before I decided to post this here.
It's a pretty simple way you can have your cake and eat it too.
I found this javascript that allows you to add your own random quotes to a text/html block by simply using your CMS functions. You can choose to "add block", and insert this text/javascript to have quotes from famous people, you, your friends, ect. Just be careful when adding or changing any quote and follow the layout exactly. You can put an indefinate number of quotes in the block.
I've been running it for a while with no problems.
<center><font size="1">
<br>
<script type="text/javascript">
//store the quotations in arrays
quotes = new Array();
authors = new Array();
quotes[0] = "I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.";
authors[0] = "Charles Schulz";
quotes[1] = "Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.";
authors[1] = "Jack Wagner";
quotes[2] = "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.";
authors[2] = "Mark Twain";
quotes[3] = "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.";
authors[3] = "Oscar Wilde";
quotes[4] = "There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.";
authors[4] = "David Letterman";
quotes[5] = "Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.";
authors[5] = "Lily Tomlin";
quotes[6] = "Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. ";
authors[6] = "Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider";
quotes[7] = "Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? "
authors[7] = "George Price ";
quotes[8] = "Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.";
authors[8] = "John Russell";
quotes[9] = "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean..";
authors[9] = "Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)";
quotes[10] = "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.";
authors[10] = "Bill Watterson";
quotes[11] = "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.";
authors[11] = "G. H. Hardy";
quotes[12] = "An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.";
authors[12] = "Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)";
quotes[13] = "When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.";
authors[13] = "Bill Clinton";
quotes[14] = "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.";
authors[14] = "Robert Wilensky";
quotes[15] = "The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.";
authors[15] = "William Gibson";
quotes[16] = "Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.";
authors[16] = "Bible, Old Testament";
quotes[17] = "People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.";
authors[17] = "A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)";
quotes[18] = "USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.";
authors[18] = "David Letterman";
quotes[19] = "Rock music journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.";
authors[19] = "Frank Zappa";
quotes[20] = "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.";
authors[20] = "Gore VIdal";
quotes[21] = "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.";
authors[21] = "Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)";
quotes[22] = "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.";
authors[22] = "Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)";
quotes[23] = "Deeds, not words shall speak me.";
authors[23] = "John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)";
quotes[24] = "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.";
authors[24] = "Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)";
quotes[25] = "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.";
authors[25] = "Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)";
quotes[26] = "If everything's under control, you're going too slow. ";
authors[26] = "-- Mario Andretti ";
quotes[27] = "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.";
authors[27] = "- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) ";
quotes[28] = "MG is the bomb"
authors[28] = "gearhead";
//calculate a random index
index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);
//display the quotation
document.write("<DL>\n");
document.write("<DT>" + "\"" + quotes[index] + "\"\n");
document.write("<DD>" + "-- " + authors[index] + "\n");
document.write("</DL>\n");
//done
</SCRIPT> </b></font>
</center>
<br>
And lastly a pic of what it looks like on your portal page:
Just call out either bold or non bold text depending on what looks the best. I use bold for a center block, and a side block I use non bold ...bold=<b>
Another example:
