I am currently working as an IT intern at some company.
They have a website and they sell some ad space on it.

The current way updating the ad images is they find a company interested in placing on an ad on the website,
they talk to a media designer that creates an ad for the company,
the media designer e-mails them an image,
they forward that image to some service they pay for.

This service basically takes the image and loads it into a database on their end with the hyperlink.

Inside the companies website is a javascript that basically calls the database and randomly places an image on the website.

For whatever the reason is (I am actually not sure) this company they pay for this service from ran into ethical problems and is being shut down.
After the current amount of time these companies have paid for ad's on the website, they are no longer are going to have ad's.

So, in short, they are looking for a temporary solution until then.
My boss ask's me if I am familiar enough with javascript to write something that just randomly places a local image and it changes after 30 seconds.
I am.

I spoke with the person today responsible for updating the website and they have zero knowledge of html or javascript.
...................Yeah.

What would be the best way to implement a solution that his person, with zero knowledge, can update the javascript for when the ad's change.
I was thinking of creating a supplement website that will create the script for them, and all they have to do is fill in a form or something.
Thoughts appreciated.

Easiest way would be to create a tool where you input some image/URL and it spits out the js. Not sure why it would need to be a website, like a locally build tool would be fine.

Or you can architect/document the js such that even someone with no experience would be able to go in and update it.

Thanks for your input.

It doesn't need to be a website, was just thinking out loudi guess. I should be able to do something like that on Java pretty easily.

There are existing examples on the web already, no need to reinvent the wheel. Google for JavaScript image rotator.

I'm not really. The script that will rotate the images is about as easy as it gets. The problem isn't the script, is the fact that the script will need to be changed by someone with no knowledge.

what do you mean by changed? you mean the links have to be updated? create some csv file that he can edit in excel.

Yes and removed, edited, added, etc. This is a very smart idea. Thanks for the tip.

This post was edited by ROM on May 21 2016 06:22pm