kandar
| Msg#: 10555 posted 8:38 am on Dec 23, 2005 (gmt 0) |
One widely used feature is hidden messages in http-headers. Most famous example is the X-Bender and X-Fry header of a big tech-orientated site.
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Beagle
| Msg#: 10555 posted 10:27 pm on Dec 23, 2005 (gmt 0) |
A little more personal. I once used a program my brother had given me to "tweak" a few pages worth of photos and put them on my site, with the only link to them being a tiny .gif in an out-of-the-way corner. Then I emailed him and told him how to search for it. Of course, it's not secure at all, but there's nothing in the pictures that requires it to be and it still gives the feeling of the pages being "just for him."
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Pfui
| Msg#: 10555 posted 11:54 pm on Dec 23, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Wow. Incorporating pi in any way, shape or form is waaay beyond this math-challenged Mac person. But I do enjoy other ways of making and hiding Easter Eggs. Some are simply hidden navigational short-cuts tucked behind 'routine' graphics. The really cool surprises pop-up a window in which a heavily modified random quote CGI cycles through selections featured elsewhere on-site as singles. I'd hide more Easter Eggs but I prefer to keep my code more simple than not for maximum browser compatibility. And as pop-up blockers and such become increasingly common, it's more challenging (tho' still geekily fun as heck) to craft broad-based special extras. I look forward to reading about others' surprises!
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MatthewHSE
| Msg#: 10555 posted 12:55 pm on Dec 24, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I sometimes throw in a few HTML comments with a link to [GetFirefox.com...] if I'm forced into making a page with extra elements added as IE hacks. Also after IE hacks in my CSS files. When I'm making a PHP script that takes user input, I'll sometimes add humorous error messages that will only be seen if someone tries to play around with $_GET data or something. But Brett's "Bot Blog" also has me itching to add more similar stuff to my site...Maybe an ASCII self-portrait in my CSS file? ;)
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longen
| Msg#: 10555 posted 1:54 am on Dec 25, 2005 (gmt 0) |
A photo or graphic could have a small section set up as an Image Map leading to content.
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Aircut
| Msg#: 10555 posted 8:49 am on Dec 25, 2005 (gmt 0) |
i add sometimes greeting lines in the comments layers of animated gif pics..only visible to those opening the files for editing....
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iamlost
| Msg#: 10555 posted 1:20 am on Dec 28, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I would not have thought to describe my use of phi , the 'golden ratio', (0.618...) or rjohara's use of pi as easter eggs. Where's the chocolate? For those who care (all n->null of you) both pi and phi show up all over the mathematical, natural, philosophical, cosmological, chaotic place. Very intreguing useful numbers. My phi uses are two-fold.
* One: Where possible I size page objects 1:0.618. It really looks good to the eye. As does the 'golden rectangle' (esp. for image/description): If the img/desc object is 1:0.618 the image is sized as 0.618 x 0.618 and the descriptiuon gets the remainder of 0.618 x 0.382. And yes using pi the rjohara way is simpler...but I am a geek and I like to suffer for my art. * Two: It is common to use some extraordinary prime as the basis for encryption. So it confuses the heck out of (most) brute force decryption programs to utilise the golden mean base (aka phinary base) on a (phi) logarithmic spiral encoding structure. Some easter eggs (note lower case to recognise lack of chocolate) I have included on sites: * an order of a-certain-item or a-certain-value getting an especially good unadvertised additional discount. Amusing how many customers would request orders of that item/value over the next week. Then it would disappear from folks' radar until the next time someone 'found' it. * a 'free-use' graphic from a renowned illustrator/cartoonist would be the 'thanks' page upon a viewer submitting a comment. * a music group included unspecified, unadvertised extra songs available only for mp3 download upon on-line purchase of their CDs. Fun stuff and great marketing.
Brett's robots.txt blog is both. A classic.
The things a geek gets excited about...I need a life...anyone got an extra?
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carfac
| Msg#: 10555 posted 5:28 am on Dec 28, 2005 (gmt 0) |
OK, I may skirt some forum rules here (I hope not!), so please forgive me if I go astray. If this is a little too Personal, just delete this post... I run a site that deals with cartoons- it deals with them in a historical and factual way. I have slipped in a couple of "fake" cartoons- mainly from "Maroon Studios"- the company that "made" the original Roger Rabbit cartoons in the 1940's. (Which, of course, never really happened). Included are even fake title cards and release posters. Dave
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D_Blackwell
| Msg#: 10555 posted 12:53 am on Dec 29, 2005 (gmt 0) |
In the site nav of a niche widget site I added an "Authorized Personnel Only" link. Click on it and go to an "Intruder Alert" page, complete with Star Trek 'red alert' siren. Completely unexpected, I think that most people enjoy the joke. Other than that link, the rest of the site is pretty straight-laced.
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pmkpmk
| Msg#: 10555 posted 10:19 pm on Jan 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I have a disallowed directory in my robots.txt. The directory is not linked from anywhere. Only chance to access it is by acessing robots.txt first, reading it, and then manually entering the directory. Its primary use was for trapping "bad bots", but every once in a while it seems a human enters it as well. I am probably going to set up some content in it which would only make sense to a human reader.
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