News Ticker is a fantastic way to present headlines or minor updates to your readers. The smooth scrolling effect will attract your readers and generate more clicks to your site. I am writing this tutorial as there are readers ask about this after they read my tutorial about content slider.
There are a lot of great tutorials discussing on how to implement news ticker, however most of the tutorials that i found are not really suitable for a beginner. So, i decided to use jQuery and its plugin jCarousel Lite to create a simple yet powerful news ticker.
Why i choose jCarousel Lite? it is because jCarousel Lite is a tiny but powerful plugin. Furthermore, you can easily tweak/configure it to achieve different effects. News ticker is just a sample application for this plugin.
Let’s start to create our news ticker using jCarousel Lite. Download both jQuery and jCarousel Lite before we can start.
Step 1
Let’s create a blank index.htm file, and include jQuery and jCarousel Lite. Also, create a blank style.css file for later use.
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script src="jquery-latest.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="jcarousellite_1.0.1c4.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
</html>
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May 16th, 2009 in
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There are a lot of free scripts to create a content slider. One of the example is SmoothGallery by JonDesign. But, if you are using jQuery and don’t want to install another JavaScript library, then you may need to consider jQuery slider plugin.
Today, i am going to provide a tutorial on using jFlow, a minimalist jQuery plugin to create a content slider. Readers are required to have basic XHTML/CSS and JavaScript skills. I will provide a download link after this tutorial. This is the first tutorial post on WebDesignBooth, and i will write more tutorials in future.
So, let’s start to create our content-slider now. Download both jQuery and jFlow before you proceed.
- Create a style.css file, and insert the following code into the file:
#jFlowSlide{ background:#DBF3FD; font-family: Georgia; }
#myController { font-family: Georgia; padding:2px 0; width:610px; background:#3AB7FF; }
#myController span.jFlowSelected { background:#43A0D5;margin-right:0px; }
.slide-wrapper { padding: 5px; }
.slide-thumbnail { width:300px; float:left; }
.slide-thumbnail img {max-width:300px; }
.slide-details { width:290px; float:right; margin-left:10px;}
.slide-details h2 { font-size:1.5em; font-style: italic; font-weight:normal; line-height: 1; margin:0; }
.slide-details .description { margin-top:10px; }
.jFlowControl, .jFlowPrev, .jFlowNext { color:#FFF; cursor:pointer; padding-left:5px; padding-right:5px; padding-top:2px; padding-bottom:2px; }
.jFlowControl:hover, .jFlowPrev:hover, .jFlowNext:hover { background: #43A0D5; }
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