How do you put a quiz with a timer on a website

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Zelda Fan

I need to know how to make a quiz with a timer on it for a website I am
making it's for school everyone has to make a personal website and they're
going to be on the school website I can't quit this class I know you can make
a quiz but I have seen quizs with timers on them in all kinds of websites I
have played them.

So it would be a big help if someone could tell me how
 
S

Steve Easton

Ok.

Here's a simple but *not* a very elegant solution:

Place each question on it's own page.
Then in code view add the following to the meta section in the <head> </head> section of each page.
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="10; URL=nextpage.htm">

In each page, change nextpage.htm to the file name of the page with the next question.
CONTENT="10; means nextpage.htm will open in 10 seconds.

The problem with this is that the viewer can hit the back button in the browser, and go back to the last question for
another 10 seconds, and do it over and over again

Do they teach punctuation where you go to school??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm
 
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Trevor L.

Zelda said:
I need to know how to make a quiz with a timer on it for a website I
am making it's for school everyone has to make a personal website and
they're going to be on the school website I can't quit this class I
know you can make a quiz but I have seen quizs with timers on them in
all kinds of websites I have played them.

So it would be a big help if someone could tell me how
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I am sure that I have seen this post before.

And my response is similar to other responses before:
Please try to express yourself in good written English.

Of course, I am not English; I am Australian. But the same applies to
everyone in the English-speaking world, be that person English, Australian,
New Zealander, Canadian, American or whatever.

Do you know anything about sentence structure?

You need to separate thoughts and ideas into logical sentences. And these
sentences should be terminated with a full stop (period, if you are
American).

There is only one full stop in your post. It ends a huge swag of text, which
really isn't one sentence. The only real sentence is the last line, and it
doesn't have a full stop, anyway. (Groan)

Please, try again. We may be able to help, but your post does not help us to
help you.

I think I know what you are asking, and I may be able to give some ideas.
Others say it may require knowledge which a beginner may not have.

I also wonder (as may others):
If you cannot express yourself in writing to ask the question, how can you
possibly read and interpret what others write in reply?

--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
[ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
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Trevor L.

Steve said:
Ok.

Here's a simple but *not* a very elegant solution:

Place each question on it's own page.
Then in code view add the following to the meta section in the <head>
</head> section of each page. <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="10;
URL=nextpage.htm">
In each page, change nextpage.htm to the file name of the page with
the next question. CONTENT="10; means nextpage.htm will open in 10
seconds.

The problem with this is that the viewer can hit the back button in
the browser, and go back to the last question for another 10 seconds,
and do it over and over again
Do they teach punctuation where you go to school??
Click to expand...

Steve,
I had some similar ideas

One was to use the timer function in javascript, but I haven't thought it
through.

Maybe have an inline frame and load the pages into it in succession. At the
end of each page load the next with a 10 second delay.

Would this work?

BTW,
I feel sure many of us are tearing our hair out at the poor grammar used by
the OP.
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
[ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
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S

Steve Easton

Hi Trevor.
Actually the iframe solution would be better.
Takes a little bit of javascript though!!

Sort of like my Christmas card maybe!!

;-)


--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm



Trevor L. said:
Steve said:
Ok.

Here's a simple but *not* a very elegant solution:

Place each question on it's own page.
Then in code view add the following to the meta section in the <head>
</head> section of each page. <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="10;
URL=nextpage.htm">
In each page, change nextpage.htm to the file name of the page with
the next question. CONTENT="10; means nextpage.htm will open in 10 seconds.

The problem with this is that the viewer can hit the back button in
the browser, and go back to the last question for another 10 seconds,
and do it over and over again
Do they teach punctuation where you go to school??
Click to expand...

Steve,
I had some similar ideas

One was to use the timer function in javascript, but I haven't thought it through.

Maybe have an inline frame and load the pages into it in succession. At the end of each page load the next with a 10
second delay.

Would this work?

BTW,
I feel sure many of us are tearing our hair out at the poor grammar used by the OP.
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
[ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
Click to expand...
 
Z

Zelda Fan

Steve Easton said:
Ok.

Here's a simple but *not* a very elegant solution:

Place each question on it's own page.
Then in code view add the following to the meta section in the <head> </head> section of each page.
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="10; URL=nextpage.htm">

In each page, change nextpage.htm to the file name of the page with the next question.
CONTENT="10; means nextpage.htm will open in 10 seconds.

The problem with this is that the viewer can hit the back button in the browser, and go back to the last question for
another 10 seconds, and do it over and over again

Do they teach punctuation where you go to school??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm






What you said about teaching punctuation at school is rude, insulting, and offensive
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Trevor L.

Well, I for one didn't say you didn't try hard enough. I merely commented on
how we were feeling.

BTW,
Your last post (above) has better punctuation.

Here is a redraft, which just tidies it up a bit
==========
The thing you said about people pulling their hair out is rude, insulting,
and offensive. I didn't get good grades in English
classes, because I have a hard time with punctuation - about where to put
it. I tried my BEST!!

So don't say I didn't try hard enough because that's another rude remark.
Didn't your parents teach you
about manners?
==========

Notice the use of full stops (or periods, if you are American), and
paragraphs to separate your thoughts.

And it will be true that if you can't use correct punctuation, your website
will be less acceptable. After all a web site is only a means of presenting
text (and images) in way that can easily be understood.

Well, maybe we can answer further queries, but do keep trying .
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
[ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
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