Adding a Ticker

The secretary at our school has asked me and the tech director to add a ticker
to the school's website. She wants to be able to put special announcements
there. We have not been able to figure out how to do this, even after looking
through our Dreamweaver book. Can it be done with Dreamweaver? If so, how?

Thanks,
LaRee

La_Ree wrote:

The secretary at our school has asked me and the tech director to add a ticker
to the school's website. She wants to be able to put special announcements
there. We have not been able to figure out how to do this, even after looking
through our Dreamweaver book. Can it be done with Dreamweaver? If so, how?

again, lots of ways to do this... without getting into a holy war on
what's considered good form or best practice or whatever (puleeze - he's
asking how to do it and the school wants it) --I use a flash/xml based
solution that cost about $20 when I bought it but now sells for $30.
http://flashloaded.com/flashticker.php?id2=

there's a trial version of it here:
http://flashloaded.com/flashtickertrial.php

there may be free ones out there, too. If so, I am sure someone here
will point to it.

or, you can google news ticker scripts and get a pile of solutions, from
java to dhtml to whatever. Sorry, Dreamweaver doesn't incorporate a news
ticker natively.

Tip - get a solution that will be easy for the school's secretary to
edit... that's why I like the flashticker solution, as all you have to
do is copy and paste a news item and change the content.

HTH
Donna Casey

On Tue 01 Nov 2005 07:09:06p, La_Ree wrote in macromedia.dreamweaver:

The secretary at our school has asked me and the tech director to add
a ticker to the school's website. She wants to be able to put special
announcements there. We have not been able to figure out how to do
this, even after looking through our Dreamweaver book. Can it be done
with Dreamweaver? If so, how?

To make text scroll, use a marquee tag:

<marquee>Scrolling text is annoying</marquee>

For information on styling the marquee, and some of the options you have,
see:

http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/testing/marquee/

In order to fill in content, there are a whole bunch of options,
depending on what serverside scripting and database you have available
and how technically competent the people involved are. For some options,
do a web search for 'content management system'; for a Macromedia
solution, have a look at Contribute.

And to answer your first question, it's rarely an issue of 'Can it be
done with Dreamweaver'. Dreamweaver is just an editor of text documents;
what you want to ask is can it be done with
HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP/ASP/VBScript/ASP.Net/C#/CGI/Perl or whatever
other underlying technology.