Ticker / Countdown Clock Generator to use?

[jasff]

I am a member of one of the Disney forums. They have this great customized "Ticker" to make countdown banners, which generate a code to be posted in a members Signature.

On my forum, a lot of members plan Meet & Greets all the time and this would be a feature they would love. I know there are a lot of free generators on the Internet to use. However I would like to know how this is done through my forum...meaning I want members to be able to generate from my domain, and everything be customized to us.

Any help is appreciated. Here's the ticker page for the disney site. Walk through it and see how cool it is. http://distickers.com/ticker/stepone/event.html

Thanks in advance!

[pityocamptes]

Maybe take a look at their source code (view source)?

[jasff]

Oh, I don't know what that means or how it's done. New to it all. But have launched a very successful forum

[Max Taxable]

Experience tells me to avoid all such, tickers, clocks, etc. They just leech the resources of your visitors and users.

Your site is slow enough already and has myriad of problems besides, here's the web page test.

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130919_M4_14SP/

[jasff]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Your site is slow enough already and has myriad of problems besides, here's the web page test.

Max, that wasn't my question. I didn't ask to have anyone run a test on my forum and post the results out on the forum. You could have at least sent me a PM instead!

[Max Taxable]

Hey, just trying to be helpful. Tickers, clocks and etc just annoy people, use processor time and suck bandwidth. And it's just habit of mine to test sites. That one was a firefox browser, here's what IE 10 sees:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130919_MM_14ZP/

And here's what your mobile users get in the way of performance, took so long to load on a i-phone in Dulles VA the test timed out.:

http://mobitest.akamai.com

My point being, I personally would work on improving the speed and performance of my site, rather than add resource leeches to it.

Just friendly advice from long experience friend.

EDIT: I got a android in Dulles to load your site... 59 seconds and a blank page. (Tapatalk)

http://mobitest.akamai.com/m/results...d=130919_SF_89

[TheLastSuperman]

I don't think he was being rude but was instead simply saying "hey check this out, maybe fix the loading speed before adding stuff that slows it down" is how I took it and besides know you now a link to a handy tool .

I've used that before, one client ran me ragged making sure his site loaded prim & proper but I didn't mind was fun making it fast and btw don't be ashamed of that page load speed, your site is loading faster than mine LOL just so long as it truly does not take ages or hang you'll be just fine, I find that often times some tend to place too much emphasis on that (ohh the serious ones on here will disown me for saying that just now ) I say if the site works, loads in moderate time and content is good then no worries.

Edit: Ahh posted about same time as Max but yeah see he was being helpful as I suspected .

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by jasff

Max, that wasn't my question. I didn't ask to have anyone run a test on my forum and post the results out on the forum. You could have at least sent me a PM instead!

Wow, jasff Max is one of the better members of this site and has helped out many people. The reason he is giving you that advise to avoid the counter is because you are going to end up adding a counter of some sort to your site and then you are going to come back right here to these forums and ask for help because your site is getting shut down by your host.

Learn to take advise from others when they give it to you, and good luck trying to find what you are looking for.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

The reason he is giving you that advise to avoid the counter is because you are going to end up adding a counter of some sort to your site and then you are going to come back right here to these forums and ask for help because your site is getting shut down by your host.

Or worse, hacked/defaced. How many times have we seen that?

[jasff]

Thanks everyone for your advice. Max, I apologize.