dreamweaver/courses/in/london - News scroll/blog

Duncan,

Sorry for the confusion. In your original post you did say 'news feed', but now I think I understand what you require.

Just so you know, the three suggestions above don't have to be 'live' news feeds, they can contain whatever you want, eg. blog type updates/latest news/updates from yourself/a recipe... doesn't matter! You always set the content. The Java example though, does have to be text, as far as i'm aware.

My third suggestion is, in fact, just a text box, yes. However if you add the parameter "readonly" to the tag, it means the user cannot edit the text, but they can scroll around/read it.

eg. <textarea readonly="readonly" rows="10" cols="40">All the news goes here</textarea>

If you want pictures etc. too, then my advice would be to use an iFrame. I'd recommend you experiment with iFrames, because they allow you to specify an area of your web page, which acts as a window; within that window you can put another whole web page - which can contain text (any fonts) and pictures as well.

So, create your news page first; keep it simple to begin with. Save the page as news.html (for example). Then on your home page, have code like this:
<IFRAME NAME="thenews" SRC="news.html">
</IFRAME>

Note the SRC parameter allows you to specify which HTML page to load into the iFrame.

See these pages for more info on how to use iFrames...
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537627.aspx
http://www.willmaster.com/possibilities/archives/wmp20030506001.shtml

Regards, Rich