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UKBL ~ Ajax Google News Bar on ForumHome

Heres another Great Google addition for your Site, A customised Google News bar, Sits quitely under your Navbar and updates with your chosen news type.

This is really easy to edit and upload to your site.

First of all Download the Code in the Zip File, Open in a text editor, Notepads fine, and ...

and Find

executeList : ["Business News"]

Change the word "Business News" with any other search term associated with your site, so if your site is a Parenting Site, then you would add words associated with that.

So change the words within the brackets and save.

Then Copy and paste the entire code to the very end of your Header Template, or anywhere else on your forum.

Click Install if you use

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

Not that i know off You could use "Currancy" as a keyword, but that would just add currancy news as oppose to "Live" Rates

What you could used is a "Live" Currancy" News Ticker like this

<script src="http://www.forex-rates.biz/index.php?step=ticker_docwr&bgc=white&fntc=Blue&fsize=14px&ffam=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&width=100%&height=20px"></script>

add that to the end of your header

Thanks I'll give it a whirl!

[concepts]

Originally Posted by leenster

i think you need to do it like this...

PHP Code:

executeList : ["Ford Mustang", "Dodge Charger", "Chevrolet Camaro", "HipHop", "Urban Fashion"] 


I will try this out and let you know, thankyou! *Crosses Fingers*

[cddw.ltd]

If you place the bits between the <SCRIPT> tags just before your </BODY> tags at the end of the page, it prevents the small delay that appears when the "Loading...." div is created.

[Hachi Go]

Is anyone else having an issue with the search bar moving around on IE (but not Firefox)?

If you scroll the site in IE the News Bar floats down the site as you scroll down the page, but then it does return back to it's original position.

I have the code in my header template as well.

Here's the site too if you'd like to see for yourself: http://www.bengalsroar.com

Also did anyone ever figure out how to adjust the font color of the feed? It seems that if you remove the url for the gsearch.css and actually copy in the css text instead you can then alter the colors of everything except the feed portion. The feed portion is still being controled by the CSS color codes in the body css under "normal links css"

So is there a way around that?

Thanks in advance.

[Prisim]

Thankd dear...Successfully installed.

[ubcforums]

Thanks ..Installed :P

[nnStaff]

Originally Posted by Hachi Go

Is anyone else having an issue with the search bar moving around on IE (but not Firefox)?

If you scroll the site in IE the News Bar floats down the site as you scroll down the page, but then it does return back to it's original position.

I have the code in my header template as well.

Here's the site too if you'd like to see for yourself: http://www.bengalsroar.com

Also did anyone ever figure out how to adjust the font color of the feed? It seems that if you remove the url for the gsearch.css and actually copy in the css text instead you can then alter the colors of everything except the feed portion. The feed portion is still being controled by the CSS color codes in the body css under "normal links css"

So is there a way around that?

Thanks in advance.

create a CSS ID for that span and call it -- it will override the forum's settings

[AdrianH]

I like this but all the news is from the USA.......... not a lot of good for my UK site,is there a UK feed available?

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by CareyCrew

I like this but all the news is from the USA.......... not a lot of good for my UK site,is there a UK feed available?

Hi Buddy

First of all Download the Code in the Zip File, Open in a text editor, Notepads fine, and ...

and Find

executeList : ["Business News"]

Change the word "Business News" with any other search term associated with your site, so if your site is a Parenting Site, then you would add words associated with that, Not 100% sure but if you want to change the Default Business news to a different search result why don't you add "in UK" to the Search parameters

Like this

executeList : ["Business News in UK"]

So change the words within the brackets and save.

Let me know how you got on

[AdrianH]

Thanks, I tried that and it worked to a point,however I have had complaints about the terrible lag on the forum since adding this code.

Pages take forever to load while waiting for the newsbar to load up, remove the Google code and problem is gone. We are on our own fast server and have no issues otherwise.