HTML - Scrolling News Ticker

Hi 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

Hi everyone.

Im trying to place a ticker on my website. It has to able to be used on a number of pages. So having done a brief search on the net i came across this:
Code:

<DIV ID="TICKER" STYLE="overflow:hidden; width:520px">
  <? include "myimportlib.php" ?>
</DIV>
<script type="text/javascript" src="webticker_lib.js" language="javascript"></script>

From this site: http://www.mioplanet.com/rsc/newsticker_javascript.htm
But, the prblem is this, I have to make every page, that has the code, into a php file. I thought that its point was to be placed into html.
Does anyone know how to solves this or is there a better way
I like the idea that i can just alter the myimportlib.php file and all the tickers will be correct and i don't have to edit code all over my site..

Hope this has made sense, it kinda does to me. lol:

Bobski

Hi, I'm trying to modify an HTML-based RSS ticker that I've found online. For reference, the code can be found at http://www.rsspump.com.

Currently, the code is written to display a certain number of recent posts (for my purposes, tweets from a Twitter account). The default setting displays anywhere between 1-9 of the most recent posts.

The issue is that I am using the ticker to display a list of daily announcements. The number of announcements we tweet varies from day to day, and become irrelevant once the day is over. Is there a way to rewrite this code so that the posts (tweets) displayed are based on the day they are posted rather than the number of recent posts?

For example, instead of displaying my 5 most recent tweets, I'd like to display everything I've tweeted today and only things I've tweeted today. I hope that makes sense.

Anyways, I've posted the code below. Thank you so, so much to anybody who can help.

<iframe src="http://s1.rsspump.com/rss.aspx?s=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&amp;speed=2&amp;t=0&amp;d=0&amp;u=0&amp;p=1&amp;b=0&amp;ic=9&amp;font=Verdana&amp;fonts ize=12px&amp;bgcolor=&amp;color=000000&amp;type=typewriter&amp;su=1&amp;sub=1&amp;sw=1" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="16" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"></iframe><noframes><div style="background-color: none transparent;"><a href="http://www.rsspump.com/?web_widget/rss_ticker/news_widget" title="News Widget">News Widget</a></div></noframes>

Hi everyone,

Basically I want to add 3 tickers from this site: http://www.worldometers.info to my page. I've tried viewing the page source and copying but having some issues.

Let's say I want to add the "CO2 emissions this year (tons)" ticker; what is the code I need please?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you!

Hello everyone. =)

I'm still very much a n00b when it comes to web development, so there's still a LOT I don't know how to do (and I can't even search Google very well, 'cuz I don't know the correct terms). That said...I apologize if I put this in the wrong section; I'm not really even sure where this topic belongs. =\

If you have any coding knowledge, or know a website that can help me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance!!


1) I really like music, so I'd love to have an interactive Billboard music chart on my site. By "interactive", I mean "you get a list of the top 40 (or top 100) songs, and if you click the songs, you'll hear them play".

I'm thinking that, in order for this to work, I need to find a online radio site or something. But I know nothing about streaming websites...so I'm not even sure if there already is a "Top 40s Billboard" station, or a "Top R&B/Hip-Hop" station. And if those stations do exist, I don't know how to add them to my website. Would I need something called RSS/XML??? What do I do???


2) I want to add a sports ticker to my website. I'd love for it to be similar to this (I wish I could just pay them for the ticker, but I can't afford $130/month. So I'm wondering if there's a way to produce the same [or a somewhat similar] effect for free?):
http://sports.tickertech.com/

As you can see, the ticker is quite expansive. You can get info on national sports news (Michael Vick, etc.) and you can also get specific news based on individual sports teams (San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Tigers, etc.) You can also click on each individual link (located on the left side) and read more information on each topic; it's really really cool. <3

Is there anyway to reproduce this effect? If that ticker involves too much work, then how do I at least get the NATIONAL/MAJOR sports news for each sports category (NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, etc.) to show up?


3) Also, what's the best way to keep my sports ticker and music charts up-to-date (or even better, have it update by itself)? Would I need to use RSS/XML to do it???

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

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

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

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

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 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!

Hi:

I want to place a large block of scrollable text (i.e., a news letter for my clients to view) on a page.

The 'text' for this news letter 'page' will be taken from a database and will be planted in this scrollable block, and will have a text title and an author and a 'last edit date'.

Any first thoughts on how to set up the basic markup for this scrollable block of text please ??

Thank you !

-Mel Smith
Mesa, Arizona

Is there a plugin or anything that would allow me to setup specific sections of a website where certain users can update with news?

I hope I'm being clear, but this is what I want to do:

There's a news section of my page, and currently I'm working with people who don't know a lick of HTML. They want to be able to add news articles without having to go through me. Is there a service or plugin or anything that will allow this to happen?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi!
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.