Can you tell me what this is? (news rotator script)
I have a website (redskinstouch.com) and it features up-to-date news on the front page (as those who have checked it out would see). I like the layout that I have made, but I would like to make some alterations to it, particularly the news items. I have seen on another site (austouch.com) that the news articles, featured on the front page, rotate. I really like this way of presenting news articles as it saves alot of space.
Does anyone know how this is acheived and where I can get some coding from so I can do the same sought of thing on my website!
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 18:43 — 14th May 2007.
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You can put feeds on your website from digg.com. (register on digg.com and then go to http://digg.com/tools/)
Another thing you can do is use their rss feeds to show up to date news on your site. See my last post @ http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?t=38157. I'm am currently using this method at agswebs.com.
kerrodhall posted this at 09:43 — 15th May 2007.
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Thanks for the reply, but thats not what I was after. As I originally posted, the front page of austouch.com.au features news. Those of you who check it out will see how teh featured article rotates with the other articles listed below it.
What i want is to be able to do the same thing with my own news items. If anyone knows how please let me know.
aka Rohan posted this at 12:41 — 15th May 2007.
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I don't know much about scripts but it looks as if they have used a javascript script to cycle the images.
Have you tried contacting the webmaster of the site? I'm sure if you asked them nicely they may let you use their script or tell you what they used to base it on (if anything). You could just take the source code and adapt for your needs but this is plagiarism, probably not too legal and just plain rude. However, I've always found people more than happy to help if you approach them in a polite and fair manner.
Failing that you could try searching some open source or free script sites for something suitable. I find Sourceforge.net and Hotscripts.com are useful places to start but if in doubt just do a search engine search.
Hope that is of some help
EDIT: A quick 30sec search popped this up http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/4996.html.
cbc58 posted this at 21:44 — 17th May 2007.
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check out dynamicdrive.com to see if they have something for this.... I think they might
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