[Pro] Ticker Tape

Mikey · February 8, 2012, 8:05pm

A question? Is it possible to increase the font size in the Ticker Tape ?
many thank
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Peter_Tucker1 · February 9, 2012, 2:54am

Yes, and I have some instructions here:

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A question? Is it possible to increase the font size in the Ticker Tape ?
many thank
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Mikey · February 9, 2012, 6:28am

Peter
Many thanks for the link
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Mike_Welch · February 14, 2012, 7:21pm

Hi Peter (thru Mike Ennis)

Can you please explain in detail, as regards to “tagging” the Ticker Tape action? I already have the “standard” ticker tape and I have tried following your instructions by setting a style but I cant seem to apply it to the existing ticker tape. Can you explain further, please.

To see my problem please visit my website…www.alboradadance.org

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ThomasKimmich · February 14, 2012, 9:18pm

Hi Mike,

as far as I can see you named your element “ScrollerInput” in the inspector.

Just rename this in “scroller” in the inspector and create a style called

#scroller input

The name in the inspector need to match the first word after the fenced symbol. Add there your desired style.

I tend to advice first just to copy the seen scenerie and then start to slightly modify to your needs - just to get an impression what’s going on.

BTW:

Your source code is full of table elements, does this have any further reason or is this more by accident?

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Justin_Easthall · February 15, 2012, 3:28pm

This is great I was having a shed load of problems adding a ticker tape yesterday - can you add links to the content?

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Mike_Welch · February 15, 2012, 3:42pm

Ok Thomas, thank you so much… I have to go away for a couple of days but will try it when I get back. It seems I left off the # code in any case. I will try again. Thank you and will get back to you. My source code? I am not sure about that? Can you explain… i take it that that is all the coding in the address bar that gets to whereever? I dont know why it is full of table elements but will address that after I have solved the tickertape problem. All the best - Mike

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Mike_Welch · February 21, 2012, 4:28am

Hi Thomas… am back now. Have tried what you advised - putting # directly in front of the style/tag name but it didnt work. Can you advise me further, please? I recreated the Ticker Tape box with the text and then created a style/tag… when I chose “Extended” it showed my new style #scroller input but it never gave me the option to change text sizes. However, the new style/tag dialogue box did have those options available and I chose them but still to no avail. What am I doing wrong?

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ThomasKimmich · February 21, 2012, 2:53pm

Hi Mike,

I have probably to adjust the video quality settings, but it should actually help you out - it’s popcorn time:

http://www.kimmich-dm.de/screencasts/tickertape.php

Enjoy

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Mike_Welch · February 21, 2012, 5:30pm

EUREKA! Thomas… Thank you so much. Finally success and thanks to you! I will play with it to probably make the radius of the corners more attractive.

You mentioned that I had extra table elements - I am not sure whether they are superfluous or not and I most certainly do not know how I came by them… pressing too many buttons probably. What did I do wrong, do you know? and if the extra characters have a “slowing down” effect on the flow of the website, how do I get rid of them. This really isnt so important. My main problem is now solved… thank you again - Kind regards, Mike

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ThomasKimmich · February 21, 2012, 5:39pm

Hmmm,

let’s say - except of a few single divs:

nearly all tables.

Not sure - but I guess that you worked during all the time with css-button off (button grey instead blue)?

That will mean that all your elements aren’t layers?

Just a shot in the dark.

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waltd · February 21, 2012, 5:43pm

One way you can end up with unexpected tables is if you use the Style tab of the Inspector to add rounded corners or shadows to your otherwise normal DIV box. Because of the need to serve the same layout to IE < 9 as well as more progressive browsers, the result of using these effects is a nested 9-cell table to provide stretchy borders to a DIV.

Walter

On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Thomas Kimmich wrote:

Hmmm,

let’s say - except of a few single divs:

nearly all tables.

Not sure - but I guess that you worked during all the time with css-button off (button grey instead blue)?

That will mean that all your elements aren’t layers?

Just a shot in the dark.

Cheers

Thomas

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ThomasKimmich · February 21, 2012, 9:14pm

it should be probably noted (far away of Walter’s exact note) that you should extend the style “rounded-corner” with a few more to get it to work in more browsers. Add them like the -webkit example:

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Mike_Welch · February 21, 2012, 9:50pm

To Thomas and WaltD - thank you both very much for your advice and observations. Yes, I chose to use HTML (as opposed to CSS) because I thought search engines would pick up on more of our website. I think I may have made an error in doing so. I am wondering if there is a way that I can reverse some of this. Secondly, yes again, I used the borders available in the Inspector and I think this, again, was an error. Next time I will make a style.

Thank you again - Mike

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David_McCallum · February 21, 2012, 9:56pm

Here is an example page that shows how to change your Ticker text size

http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/ticker-style.html

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waltd · February 21, 2012, 10:06pm

On Feb 21, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Mike Welch wrote:

To Thomas and WaltD - thank you both very much for your advice and observations. Yes, I chose to use HTML (as opposed to CSS) because I thought search engines would pick up on more of our website.

I think you’re confusing CSS with something else. CSS is a means of coding the style of HTML separate from the content, and you can’t have CSS without HTML. In a perfectly abstracted site, the only things you would have in the HTML are the structural and semantic tags, and everything else – the behavior and the look and feel – would be in separate CSS and JavaScript files. That way the Google-bot doesn’t have to tiptoe through 100 lines of style code just to find your content. It’s the difference between this:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/walterdavis/1879291

simplepastiefile.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Untitled</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width = 770, minimum-scale = 0.25, maximum-scale = 1.60"/>
<meta name="generator" content="Freeway 5 Pro 5.6.2"/>
<style type="text/css">
<!-- 
body { margin:0px; background-color:#fff; height:100% }

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and this:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/walterdavis/1879299

simplepastiefile.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8" />
	<title>untitled</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css/style.css" />
	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.7/prototype.js"></script>
	<!--[if IE]>
		<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
	<![endif]-->

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Believe me – even though these look exactly alike, Google likes the second one much more, because the signal-to-noise ration is much higher.

I think I may have made an error in doing so. I am wondering if there is a way that I can reverse some of this.

You can clean up a table-based page pretty completely by turning on CSS Positioning in the main toolbar, then going through your layout and clicking on each element and checking the Layer checkbox in the Inspector. Then you can take it further by enabling External Stylesheets. There are further steps you can take, but those will do a whole lot to improve things right away.

Walter

Secondly, yes again, I used the borders available in the Inspector and I think this, again, was an error. Next time I will make a style.

Thank you again - Mike

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waltd · February 21, 2012, 10:52pm

Man, that was really weird. I’ll send the right links later. Sorry.

Walter

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Mike_Welch · February 21, 2012, 10:54pm

Okay… thanks for all the info… I am a little nervous about going back to text boxes (elements) and making them CSS but I will try a page and see how it goes… then I will enable the external stylesheets… not sure how to do that at the moment but I will explore when I come to it.

Thanks Thomas and WaldD - Kind regards from sunny USA - Mike

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David_McCallum · February 21, 2012, 11:05pm

I am a little nervous about going back to text boxes (elements) and making them CSS but I will try a page and see how it goes…

Dont be - it is a reversible procedure.

If you are really concerned then do a Save As to create a duplicate FW file with a different name not forgetting to create a new Site Folder to go with it. This way you can play about and still have the original to go back to.

David

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waltd · February 22, 2012, 5:48am

Okay, I fixed my Gists, so this makes more sense than it did earlier.

Walter

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