Random Site of The Day

Few days ago I create "Random Site of The Day" for my site. My goal is to give more benefit for premium listing owner. The block will show randomly 1 site thumbnail from premium listings in the right panel. This block is using the default "random listing" block that available on IndexU, it just using different templates file and parameters.

Here is the block call :

As you can see above, the block is using 2 custom templates : block.random_site_of_the_day.html and block.random_site_of_the_day_rows.html

Here is the content of block.random_site_of_the_day.html :

And here is the content of block.random_site_of_the_day_rows.html :

Just a note, as you can see in the above code I use my own thumbnail file, you might want to adjust the IMG SRC based your own thumbnail. To use thirdparty thumbnail like girafa.com, you can change the URL to something like this :

Here is the result :

Like any other IndexU blocks, you can called anywhere within templates file. You can called from index.html, header.html, footer.html or any other templates files that suits you.
In my site, I called from header.html file.

Ok, I hope this simple tips will be usefull for you.

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