For quite a while, I had been meaning to add some kind of ticker to the Erie Gay News site for upcoming events. One of the things that I think is our strong points is that we have a fairly complete calendar of events, and I wanted to drive home the idea that we are a good source for what's coming up.
I wasn't sure about creating the animated ticker, but then I found a script that displayed an RSS feed. Hmm. I didn't have an RSS feed for the calendar, but I did have one for the articles. However, since I am maintaining the events in the database, it wasn't that hard to come up with an RSS feed for the Erie Gay News calendar. I also now have both feeds on FeedBurner.com, and added them both to the code for available feeds. In the process, I also found a few mistakes or less than optimal ways of generating the feed that I had done before, so I think that the code is tighter.
So, happy that there is now an animated ticker on the right sidebar of the Erie Gay News site for upcoming events. (I have a few include files, so it was easy to just make it part of the sidebar include file.) I wonder if that would be useful for other sites. Must think.
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