Customize MotD in Counter Strike
Requirements:
Advanced Mode or motd.txt on FTP
Basic HTML knowledge
Webspace
Inserting an image:
You can add an image to the welcome window using this function:
<html>
<img src="http://www.URL-TO-THE-WEBSITE.com/IMAGE-NAME.JPG" border="0">
</html>
Regarding the size of the image, it depends on the resolution the player has set.
If you insert an image with a size of 800x600, for example, you will get ugly scroll bars and only a small part of the image will be displayed.
So, the size of the window changes according to the resolution.
The following table shows the approximate changes:
| Resolution | Welcome Window Size |
|---|---|
| 640 x 480 | 450 x 210 |
| 800 x 600 | 590 x 290 |
| 1024 x 768 | 760 x 380 |
| 1600 x 1200 | 1190 x 590 |
We recommend using 590 x 290 since the resolution 800 x 600 is the most commonly used.
Inserting a sound:
You can insert a sound using the “embed” function.
This will play a sound file located on your webspace.
Uploading the sound file to the game server’s FTP is possible, but not recommended as the sound will not be played.
To have a sound in the welcome window, the code should look like this:
<html>
<embed src="http://www.URL-TO-THE-WEBSITE.com/sound.mp3" hidden="true" autostart="true">
</html>
The sound file can be in MP3 or WAV format and should not be too long.
There is nothing worse than having to listen to a sound for 15-45 seconds that some players may not want to hear.
Inserting a website:
In general, it is not recommended to display any website in the window.
Here are the reasons:
- Displaying a website with a lot of content can cause a player’s game to freeze.
- Most players don’t even see the welcome window for a second because they are not interested in who the admin of the server is. They quickly remove it by pressing the Enter key.
Reason 3 is because every welcome window says the same thing.
Play fair
Have fun
Don’t cheat
However, if you still want to display a website, you must use “IFrames”.
<HTML>
<FRAMESET ROWS="100%,*" BORDER="0" FRAMEBORDER="0">
<FRAME src="http://www.URL-TO-THE-WEBSITE.com" SCROLLING="AUTO">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
You can find more tutorials about HTML and its functions on www.selfhtml.org.
