Hello, I think this is not a very useful feature for a website, but it is very easy to set. A news ticker is a small area in which headline news scroll. You can click on them to go to a page and read more about them. I have found two free news ticker providers: newsindex.com and 7am.com The disadvantages are those of applets (you will not get the content by email). The service is free because it is ad supported, which means from time to time there is a headline that is an ad. 7am will tell it is an ad (on the left side), newsindex in its simpler ticker is not so clear about it. The language is English. To add 7am.com ticker. At the website there is a form that generates the code, but you can modify this one. This is the general code you have to paste: <APPLET CODE="sevenAMNewsTicker.class" CODEBASE="http://www.7am.com/java" WIDTH=450 HEIGHT=15> <PARAM NAME="channels" VALUE="+WORLDnews +WORLDnetnews +GOODnews "> <PARAM NAME="local1" VALUE="local headline1"> <PARAM NAME="link1" VALUE="http://url"> <PARAM NAME="local2" VALUE="local headline 2"> <PARAM NAME="link2" VALUE="http://url"> <PARAM NAME="domains" VALUE="-exclude1 -exclude2"> </APPLET> There are more channels to ad ( I lost much of the info due to a crash, so you will have to get the pages) <PARAM NAME="channels" VALUE="+WORLDnews +WORLDnetnews +GOODnews "> means it is including world news, news about the Internet and good news (there are US news NZ and AZ News, Christian news, etc if I remember well. You simply add. As you can see in: <PARAM NAME="local1" VALUE="local headline1"> <PARAM NAME="link1" VALUE="http://url"> you can add your own headlines and a URL associated . In <PARAM NAME="domains" VALUE="-exclude1 -exclude2"> you can exclude domains. I think this is to exclude news from certain providers. Sorry but as I mentioned I lost the info. You can get the pages or I can try to find out if there is an interest. Keep the "-" sign. So, if you simply want to put a news ticker about the Internet paste: <APPLET CODE="sevenAMNewsTicker.class" CODEBASE="http://www.7am.com/java" WIDTH=450 HEIGHT=15> <PARAM NAME="channels" VALUE="+WORLDnetnews"> </APPLET> as you see the size of the banner will be 450x15 To add newsindex.com ticker: There are three models of display *a slim one, the ad appears as a headline (for me this one is the best) *one like a banner with a big ad bellow the news *one like a box with ad at top The advantage of newsindex.com is that you can select the news to display. There is a form at the website, but again you can simply use these. This is the slim one: <APPLET width=460 height=20 code ="ticker2.class" codebase = "http://news3.newsindex.com/"> <PARAM name="search" value="term1"> <PARAM name="mode" value="any"> </APPLET> In <PARAM name="search" value="term1"> you select the terms which will determine the news to show. You simply add terms like <PARAM name="search" value="term1 term2 term3" > without any +, -, etc, it is not a search engine. As you can see you can use <PARAM name="mode" value="any"> or <PARAM name="mode" value="all"> ANY equates to logical "or" between search terms, articles containing the most of your search terms are returned first. ALL equates to a logical "and" between your search terms, only articles that contain all the search terms will be returned. Placing terms like AND and OR in your search has no effect. (News Index Delivered is always set to match ALL terms). Additional setting: <PARAM name="target" value="[NAME]"> replace [NAME] with the name of the target frame or window. This one is for the big banner: <APPLET width=468 height=75 code ="ticker.class" codebase = "http://news3.newsindex.com/"> <PARAM name="search" value="term1"> <PARAM name="mode" value="any"> </APPLET> This one for the box: <APPLET width=468 height=75 code ="ticker.class" codebase = "http://news3.newsindex.com/"> <PARAM name="search" value="term1"> <PARAM name="mode" value="any"> </APPLET> I do not know if this list accepts attachments, so I am uploading a 10k gif image with all the displays to: http://www.netnormal.com/users/danielg/newsticker.gif Theone at botom is the 7am.com news ticker. I put the horizotal rules you see and they eseparate the newsindex slim one. Who knows if internettrash will ever upload it. I am a bit dissapointed with their service since I can not upload from some time ago. There is another news ticker service from brazil (the one that motivated my search for others since I could not work it out). I read about in botspot newsletter. They have a free service. the first Brazilian Portugese newsbot in the world is at < http://www.un.com.br/ >. The site loaded too slow. There is a banner for world news <!-- Banner UN --- n�o altere este c�digo ---> <table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH="349" HEIGHT="6" > <tr><td VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="7"><img SRC="http://www.metabusca.com.br/miniun.jpg" ></td> <td VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="439" HEIGHT="19"><applet CODE="sText.class" WIDTH=439 HEIGHT=19 ALIGN=MIDDLE HSPACE=0 codebase="http://www.metabusca.com.br/"><param NAME="background" VALUE="000073"><param NAME="foreground" VALUE="FFFFFF"><param NAME="highlite" VALUE="FFFF99"><param NAME="data" VALUE="http://www.metabusca.com.br/ultnot.txt"><param NAME="font" VALUE="Arial"><param NAME="size" VALUE="11"><param NAME="pause" VALUE="5"><param NAME="wait" VALUE="1000"><param NAME="frame" VALUE="_top"><param NAME="refresh" VALUE="1"><param NAME="defaultMessage" VALUE="Consultando UN-�ltimas Not�cias - www.un.com.br - ...."><param NAME="defaultURL" VALUE="http://www.un.com.br"></applet></td> </tr> </table> And a list of news about Brazil <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript"> var capa_cabecalho = "<font face=Tahoma><font color=#666666><font size=-1>" var capa_rodape = "</font></font></font>" var pagina_cabecalho = "<font face=Arial><font color=#666666><font size=-1>" var pagina_rodape = "</font></font></font>" </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript" SRC="http://www.metabusca.com.br/pagina-gratis.js"> </SCRIPT> I could not find out if they offer the free service in other language. I emailed them, so meybe they reply. Thats all for now. Sorry if too long. Regards, Daniel http://www.netnormal.com/users/danielg .............................................................. For list info & help, including subscription options, email message "intro website-by-email" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web URL is http://www.netnormal.com/users/websitebyemail/
