Currency converter

Welcome to the Textor Webmasters currency converter. This is a Javascript program which can be dropped in to any web page. The currency converter provides currency conversion information without the visitor having to leave the site, or even the current page.

Important

Exchange rates change from minute to minute and banks use different rates when converting to or from your local currency. Credit card companies also may add a percentage to the market rate.

The calculator uses the same rate for conversions both to and from each currency and are only updated once a day. The results given by the converter are only intended to be indicative and can easily be several percentage points different from the rate actually used to charge your card account.

If you are purchasing a high priced item where the exchange rate difference could be significant please check with your bank.

It is available for free use by any Internet site that satisfies taste and decency criteria. Textor Webmasters Ltd normally updates the exchange rates in the converter daily. But because the script is called from our server every time it runs you don't need to touch your web site once the html has been included.

The converter comes in two flavours

A general purpose tool where you type in the amount to be converted, dial up the two currencies and the equivalent in the second currency is calculated.
A special calculator to convert a fixed amount (such as the price of a product) into any other currency. You can set it up so that by default the visitor initially sees any currency you choose, so that a British site can for example always have the US Dollar price on the page automatically updated. Other visitors can of course select any currency they want. Just dial up the currency and the amount is worked out.

The General Purpose Converter

Here is the first flavour. The full converter drops into the page as block which is roughly the size of a banner ad. You can reformat this any way you want. We only require that you include on the page a link back to our home page with "Textor Webmasters Ltd" included in the link text.

The Special Currency Converter

Here is the second flavour. This converts a fixed quantity in any currency into the visitors currency of choice. It can be pre-set to convert into any currency as a starting position. For example the following converts a fixed British Pound amount of £45.67, and the visitor sees the US Dollar equivalent as a default.

Include the converter on your site

If you want to include the calculator on your site you need to do three things:

Read and accept the conditions of use. Click here to link to the conditions page. You must include a statement that your site accepts these conditions in your html or the converter will not work for you.
Cut and paste some html into your site wherever you want the calculator to appear. This html is described here.
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