Putting Text in the Status Bar

Using JavaScript we are able to set the text in the status bar, rather than it showing the URL details of the page which we are viewing. To do this we simply need to set our status bar to the value of the text we wish to show:

window.status = "Welcome to my website";

We can improve on this my putting it into a function which may be called from elsewhere within our JavaScript coding,

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function setStatus(text) {
    window.status = text;
}
//-->
</script>