Comments on: Solved Forever – Footer Copyright Out of Date

By: Lynette

Lynette — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:09:44 +0000

@Designs 2 Print: Glad you found it here

By: Designs 2 Print

Designs 2 Print — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:53:56 +0000

Thank You Very Much!!

i have been looking for that snippet everywhere!!
thank You!

Designs 2 Print

By: Lynette

Lynette — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:48:32 +0000

Hey John, those static pages can be a hassle.

By: John Black

John Black — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:11:05 +0000

Thanks for the script. This is actually something I had been looking for.

I have a couple of Wordpress blogs that seem to keep track of this themselves, but I’ve got a couple of old static html sites that seem like they are never up to date.

By: Tash

Tash — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:24:09 +0000

I’m not a lawyer either, but copyright is from when it is created so you don’t really have to update your copyright on every page. In fact, in many places, you don’t even have to add ‘copyright’ at all to be protected – it is just a visual reminder.

If someone was to fight over copyright with you and you have the date 2008 (despite writing it in 2003) and they claim they wrote it in 2005, it might take a bit more convincing to say you were first.

So add/update copyright as you see fit!

By: Lynette

Lynette — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:36:53 +0000

Hi Anna, you made my day. Thanks!

By: Making Improvements | Tiffany Washko

Making Improvements | Tiffany Washko — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:07:46 +0000

[...] perform very well last year, and generally just improving each page. Oh…and I added a nifty script to the footer that will keep my copyright date current. Thanks [...]

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:00:42 +0000

Thanks Lynette,
I really enjoy your emails with your very helpful knowledge:) I have learned much from you.

By: Lynette

Lynette — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:37:47 +0000

You’re welcome everyone. I got tired of changing it out every year or finding out of date copyrights in July. Glad it is of help.

Thanks for tip Doug!

Anna – They usually go in the footer and yes I have mine on every single page. If you use included content in FrontPage, Dynamic Web Templates in Expression Web or WordPress, it is easy because you only change one file.

By: Doug Lietz

Doug Lietz — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:28:40 +0000

Thanks Lynette… handy script!

However, I ran into a little issue when I tried to cut and paste the script from this page into my FrontPage html. For some reason it ‘converted’ into a bunch of gibberish code in FP that obviously did not work.

The simple fix is to first cut and paste the script into a .txt file and then cut and past from the .txt into the FP html.

Thought I’d share that in case any of your other readers ran into this same issue.