HTML - Noobie .. News Updating
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I am currently studying a Comp Sci degree in college. I want to create a few webpages and cut my teeth. I know basic html but would like to do something more advanced. I want to add a widget or script of sorts to a webpage to allow news updates, adding pictures and text basically. I am not really sure what I am looking for and would just like to know what terms or terminology to search for. Would this come under the heading of Javascript, php, perl, widgets? Any help is appreciated. Similar TutorialsHi peeps, I apologise if this is in the wrong section, if so, please move to appropriate category. I have a basic understanding of HTML coding and I am attempting to learn new skills and tricks to help me in my development. I am currently in the process of developing a new site for myself and on this site I will have a news page, which I update weekly with news from the industry. I was wondering what is the best way of going about new news articles (written by myself, not taken from external sources) and also how to automatically update the 'news' snippet on the homepage when I add a new news article? Any advice or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks I am extremely new to Web design. I have found that it is very tricky to design sites that will look good regardless of which browser is being used and regardless of what browser settings have been tweaked. Following is my first attempt at a personal template. http://eversnug.com/holmeschiropract...es/frames.html There is a border segment just dangling to the bottom of the lower left corner that I don't know how to get rid of. Any help would be much appreciated. [b]So I'm modifying my blogger template, but i can't remove this thing: Could anyone tell me what to delete in my html code to make it disappear??? Website: http://13stairstomikarain.blogspot.c...o-so-sick.html I'm trying to make a little secret santa auto-emailer thing for my family. I've run into a bit of a problem with some html. I'm trying to superimpose each persons christmas list over the image of a scroll, so it's like it's written on the scroll. (Corny, I know, but it's christmas!) The problem is when people have wishlists that are too long. Attached are two images to illustrated: This is how it should look: Good. but this is what happens when their list is too long: Bad. I'm using tables to do it right now, but I'm open to whatever (except maybe CSS. If it's easy I could, but otherwise I'm a noob). My current approach was to divide the image into 9 sections, put each section into a cell in the table, and superimpose the text over the top of the center cell. (I know I could've divided it into fewer images, 3 probably, I will if I have to reupload the images). Here's the code I'm using right now: Code: <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <TR><TH><img src="http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/9459/101zx7.png"> <!--top left image--> <TH><img src="http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9360/102xj5.png"><!--top center image--> <TH><img src="http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/3449/103xh4.png"><!--top right image--> <TR height="446"><TH><img src="http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/5594/104du5.png"><!--middle left image--> <TH width="311" background="http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/5290/105ql2.png"><!--center image--> {The Christmas List Goes Here} <TH><img src="http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/3397/106iv7.png"><!--middle right mage--> <TR><TH><img src="http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5362/107xc4.png"><!--bottom left image--> <TH><img src="http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/1498/108jd6.png"><!--bottom center image--> <TH><img src="http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8285/109br7.png"><!--bottom right image--> </table> I don't need anyone to code it exactly for me, just point me in the right direction. I'm fine with modifying the images so there's a section that can be repeated without looking bad. I'm just not sure how to dynamically "grow" the scroll as the list gets longer. Can anyone help me? Can somebody give me a code for close to the code on http://www.psp-hacks.com/ for news, and people leaving comments! Thanks in advance ps: my site is http://www1.webng.com/steer/index.htm and you see the background... I drew those two separator lines (they are not straight) is there any other way to do it? Here is the fresh background image Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. I want to be able to generate a RSS news feed from my website with latest news etc, but I really haven't a clue where to start. Would anyone of the experts on this forum be able to advise me of where to start and what is the best way to go about it? I hope you can help. Thanks Simon How would I get a scrolling news bar in my webpage? I am extremely new, so please post code. Thanks I want to set up a news section on my website from my forums. Like I have an announcement section that I wanted to link to. How do I do that. a guy i know who runs a website had archieved news on his website without cutenews can someone please tell me the code for this...i cannot get my cutenews to work for some strange reason...thank alot everyone Hi there. I currently use a news feed widget from BlastCasta.com on a website for a leading gymnast, however i notice sometimes the news feed covers stories about someone with the same name (ie, they are not relevent to the gymnast at all!) Is there any way at all of using something else/something better? I am completely ignorant when it comes to News feeds/widgets and how to implement them. Any advice would be fantastic. See the current news feed page at http://www.bethtweddle.com/news.html Hi there, Can anybody tell me where to get google news urls to put on my site?? Like the ones on this site. http://www.newvolleyball.com/news.php Any help will be appreciated. Thanks Kris hey guys I am having problems with my website ---> www.triplestarnews.com/main firefox and safari load the page fine but explorer messes up the window size of the leftmost table frame. Any ideas on why the page looks very different on explorer? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -bonedog Hi all, Just signed up. I dabble occasionally with coding and would appreciate your help on a slight problem. I'm thinking of putting in a scrolling ticker with links to files on site so this is what I've put in (link removed): <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left" bgcolor="#192025" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()" scrollamount="4"><a href="link">Text</a></marquee> This is where my problem starts. The text is by default set to be black, therefore I can't see the text as the background colour is a shade of black. How do I change the text colour to white for this one bit? That's the first problem, I then tried to manually change it by adding some codes like this, which is messy: <marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left" bgcolor="#192025" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()" scrollamount="4"><a href="link"><font size="3" face="Yanone Kaffeesatz" color="white"> Text</a></font> </marquee> It is now white text but the problem is that it appears in Times New Roman I think. I then tried deleting the face=Yanone Kaffeesatz strand but it does not work. Thing is, with the first <marquee> example in my post, it defaults to the Yanone Kaffeesatz font with no mention of it (as that is what I use on my site), but it's in black. When I add the other string in the second example I get it in white but not in the font I want. Any help would be much appreciated. Ok so Im not sure what exactly what its called but I was wondering where I could get the code that would allow me to make my own news marque/feed/slideshow..thing An example of what Im talking about can be found on the yahoo.com main page...right in the middle of the page where it says TODAY How would I go about making one of those that I can put my own news articles in? Does is there an html gen for this? Thanks! I am in the process of building a site and want to include a News section. However do most website do this manually or use sites like joomla, drupal, and such to do this? I would like something similar to HighTimes.com content articles with tags that connect everything together. Can someone please tell me how this is done? Thank you. I'm trying to set up a scrolling news ticker for my Internet radio station. Specifications: * Must be at least 35px high. Width is 100% of the page. * Must be an scrolling ticker moving left and must be able to stop when scrolling over it. * Must be real-time (and maybe will have a timestamp, if possible) * Would like these RSS feeds to be integrated into this news ticker. WWPM MediaNet Station Feeds Station Blog: http://wwpmmedianet.wordpress.com/feed/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_.../173749973.rss Central Illinois Regional News RSS Feeds: Herald & Review Breaking News: http://www.herald-review.com/search/...c&s=start_time Herald & Review Prep Sports: http://www.herald-review.com/search/...c&s=start_time WAND-TV Local News: http://www.wandtv.com/Global/categor...clienttype=rss WICS-TV Regional News: http://www.wics.com/template/inews_w...w.wics.com.xml Regional Weather: http://feeds.weatherbug.com/rss.aspx...st&zcode=z4641 St. Louis Metro & South Central Illinois Regional News RSS Feeds: STLToday.com Local News: http://www2.stltoday.com/search/?q=&...=rss&t=article STLToday.com Metro News: http://www2.stltoday.com/search/?q=&...=rss&t=article STLToday.com Metro East News: http://www2.stltoday.com/search/?q=&...=rss&t=article KSDK-TV Local News: http://www.ksdk.com/rss/news.aspx KPLR-TV Live Feed: http://www.kplr11.com/news/rss2.0.xml KMOV-TV Local News: http://www.kmov.com/news/local/index.rss2 KTVI-TV Fox 2 Top Stories: http://www.fox2now.com/news/rss2.0.xml Stock Market Info: If possible (even if it involves a second ticker): current live market prices with DJIA, NASDAQ, S&P 500 and the Chicago Board of Trade I would really appreciate it! Thank you! Ok, this is a long post and is a big request so if you dont want to read alot of text or dont give out freebies, I would advice you going away now if you dont want to waste any time. Ok, anyhow, hi. This is my first post ad its a biggy. As an overall summary, I need to create a form which can be filled out that posts the information onto 1 page, but also creates another page automatically with it on. Now the detail. I run a site which uses phpbb user as the main site profile. I have intergrated into my homepage so you can log in there and see the info. What i need is a form which can be filled out by an admin with specific fields that would add a news segment onto the homepage. What I can do of this is if the admin wants to post a news segment on the homepage, they can click a link that will lead them to a conformation page that asks for thier details again and then checks thier phpb usergroup to see if they are an admin or not. I can also make it so once they have conformed it, they have access to the form. Now the form is a bit complicated. First off it needs these fields: Title Home Segment Article Segment The title is self explanitary. It is the main title of the news segment itself. The home segment is a small description of the actual segment itself. Article segment is the tricky bit. I need it to create a new page within a specific folder and it be domain.com/folder/title.php . I would also like it to post the date within the tags below. Oh and there needs to be a readmore link created with a link to the article The actual html for the segments would be: <a name="title of segment"></a> <h2>title of segment</h2> <p>homepage desc for homepage of full desc for article </p> <p class="post-footer align-right"> <a href="article link" class="readmore">Read more</a><span class="date">check system date</span></p> <br /> If you need more info, which you probably do, dont hesitate to ask. My site homepage is this : http://theholostudios.co.uk . This is if you want to see the layout. Oh and sorry if this sounds quite nooby, i am still learning all this stuff. Ok here's the low-down - I'm trying to find a better way to post news items on a large intranet - currently we have to post the same news on twenty different servers, which drives me barmy. The big issues are we can only get client-side access (no asp, php etc) although on the upside all the users are IE6 - so in a way some things like data islands become available. So I was thinking we could have a central xml file that we could update and each page would be set to show certain categories or something. first of all is this possible at all?! And if so - any help/pointers would be appreciated! You'll see below where I've got to - so it's displaying the first news item dynamically so I guess there's two questions - one hopefully fairly easy and the second for a resident-genius type: 1) How can I get it to display the 'first five records' rather than just the first one - I know you can fudge it with tables, but I'm trying to keep it as proper as possible and I know tables aren't really the best for this sort of thing. 2) Is there any way I can add 'markers' to the xml file that are checked - ie so the xml file could have items like: <item> <title> The title of this article</title> <markers> <political>Yes</political> <sport>No</sport> <technology>Yes</technology> </markers> <content>blah blah</content> </item> This'd then let me specify an article as both political and technology and thus on the political and technology pages it'd appear if it was one of the five most recent valid articles, but not on the sport pages. Any ideas?! Code below if it helps... Page: Code: <html> <head> </head> <body> <div> <div>All News</div> <ul> <li><span dataSrc="#news" dataFld="title"></span></li> <li>News 2</li> <li>News 3</li> <li>News 4</li> <li>News 5</li> </ul> </div> <div> <div>Retail News</div> <ul> <li>News 1</li> <li>News 2</li> <li>News 3</li> <li>News 4</li> <li>News 5</li> </ul> </div> <xml id="news" src="news.xml"></xml> </body> </html> XML file: Code: <?xml version="1.0"?> <news> <newsitem> <title>General News 1</title> <intro>intro for the general news</intro> <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk</link> </newsitem> <newsitem> <title>General News 2</title> <intro>intro for the general news</intro> <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk</link> </newsitem> <newsitem> <title>General News 3</title> <intro>intro for the general news</intro> <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk</link> </newsitem> <newsitem> <title>General News 4</title> <intro>intro for the general news</intro> <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk</link> </newsitem> <newsitem> <title>General News 5</title> <intro>intro for the general news</intro> <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk</link> </newsitem> <newsitem> <title>General News 6</title> <intro>intro for the general news</intro> <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk</link> </newsitem> <newsitem> <title>General News 7</title> <intro>intro for the general news</intro> <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk</link> </newsitem> </news> Can someone help me create a scrolling news ticker in HTML code? I want to put rss feed into this scrolling ticker from an rss feed like yahoo news etc. It would be greatly appreciated if someone can help or give me the code. Ill be glad to put your name in the code. THanks. hi this is gafadi and i am new i am creating a news html website .. i need some help .. i need to know how organize my site .. how to save the news that i publish everyday .suppose i publish news today and after 1 year people go to the search option and easily find that news .. thanks |