[thelist] scrolling news tickers

[Andy Wojtowski]

Personally I agree with you on scrolling tickers that are normally black
with green text or something similar, but Apple.com has a rather nice
ticker that instead of scrolling flashes the news stories and when a
user clicks they are taken to a page that has all the "new" news
stories. Just in case you miss clicking on the one you wanted : )
So I guess my point is that if you have content or information that is
updated daily that you don't want to put on the front page a nicely done
news ticker could be a viable answer.

"A. Erickson" wrote:
> 
> I have had clients in the past who have redesigned their website and I have,
> during the process, performed a gentle tickerectomy. I hate news tickers.
> 
> Generally, a company that uses a news ticker of, say, their last five press
> releases can't just stop at one ticker. No, they are the ones who need
> something else on the page spinning and looping and maybe some dhtml effects
> and wouldn't it be cool if.... etc., etc.
> 
> I find news tickers to be a) distracting, b) hard to read, let alone click
> on, c) buggy.
> 
> Do you agree with me?
> 
> What I want to know is is there a good reason to use a ticker? If you go to
> a site with a ticker, do you bother to read through all of the items and
> actually *use* it? Are there successful and useable tickers out there?
> 
> Any thoughts supporting a pro-ticker mindset would be appreciated.
> 
> - Amanda
> Performing tickerectomies with pride since 1997.
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Andrew Wojtowski

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