Passing a visitors name from page to page

[calamine]

How do you pass the name of a visitor to your website from one page to the next so that each page visited will contain a welcome msg with their name at the top of the page?

[Dan Grossman]

This is usually done with what's called a session. Exactly how you do that depends on what server-side programming language you choose. If you make a post in the language forum of your choice someone will likely help you do this.

[W3Daryl]

The simplest way is to use Session variables with PHP. You'll be amazed at how easily it is to implement. All you need to do is to start a session with a function at the top of every page, then just reference to the variables as $_SESSION['VariableName']. You might want to google PHP Session Tutorial. Cheers.