Its Twenty-Oh-Seven And That Means Work!

January 4, 2007 | By Adam Wong In Technical Tips |

As you know, it is now 2007 and that means I’ve been busy changing all my copyright notices from 2006 to 2007. And that’s plain tedious work, especially when you have multiple html pages.

And to make it worse, I just found out that I could actually do that whole thing automatically if I just did some simple geek techniques.

Boy, that would have saved some time! But I didn’t and I actually had that info lying on my desktop for weeks!

Anyway, if you own websites and you too need to change your dates, then this should help:

1. Place all your html or htm pages are in one folder

2. Open one html file in your html editor (Dreamweaver or Frontpage or whatever…)

3. Click on Edit > Replace

4. A box will pop up. Now just enter 2006 in the Find area and 2007 in the Replace area.

5. Hit ok and then the program will now automatically find all the 2006 and replace them with 2007.

Ok, please remember to do this because it helps your site look more professional when it has the current year stamped on it.

Goodness! Imagine if you didn’t do this small bit and your year was stuck at 2004. It would look so un-pro! Just like DBS!!

DBS

ahahahaa! How could an organization with over 6000 employees miss this simple thing?

They should just give me a few thousand bucks to change that 4 to a 7 and I would boost their image and professionalism immediately! That’s money well spent, I say!

Or they can increase my savings rate to 15% a month or something… Ha!

Anyway, hope you have a good year coming because I’m planning mine to be even better than the last!

HNY!

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    3 Comments so far

    1. Ty Teh on January 4th, 2007

      Haha…

      Good one there about DBS.

      Ty Teh

    2. Thomas Poh on January 5th, 2007

      Hi Adam, i think you’re totally wrong in the copyright issue. For copyright, it’s actually means that the book or ebook was created in the particular year.
      And if you change that 2006 to 2007, it’s means your web site or ebook was created in 2007!
      Take a look at http://www.ocbc.com, copyright 2004-2006, yes OCBC have not change that 2006, but it was still 2004. Nothing wrong with that. Or to say, DBS did not make any mistake.
      Hope this help.
      Have a nice day!

      Adam says:
      You’re right about the copyright meaning that the date signifies when that work was created. We see it all the time in print books.

      My opinion is doing 2004-2007 is fine.

      But leaving it at just 2004?

      Have a look at the major websites (google, yahoo, msn, ebay, myspace, youtube, etc). All of them either show the current year 2007 or xxxx-2007, never just the ‘old’ date.

      :)

    3. KLeer on January 5th, 2007

      Hi Adam,

      I’ve been to your blog a few times and I like the stuff you put up. Good work. I’ve recently set up my own blog discussing my investments and investing strategies.

      I’m thinking of linking your blog on my blog and was wondering if you would mind doing the same? This is of course, if you like the stuff on my blog. Thanks!~

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