Well so far it looks like I have to go with my back up plan. After working on my original idea with no success I went with a simple recursive timer that has a pop up every three seconds. It’s very plan, but I’m glad I got something to work.

What I was working on originally was taking a website that I had made for IS379 and changing it so it utilized AJAXs. It was a landing page for Dance Marathon at University of Michigan. DMUM is a nonprofit organization that works with children’s hospitals to raise funds and awareness for disabled children. My page was a landing page for and AdWords campaign for early signs of autism.

I had planned on taking the ordered list of actual early signs of autism and display them one at a time every three seconds. I got the timer to work but had trouble with pulling them from an array in a PHP file like the homework example. I also had trouble getting the JavaScript to work as a separate file and not embedded in the html.