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Formatting Your Own Content

Formatting your own information is easy.

Just follow the instructions below and you'll get up to speed in seconds.

These instructions relate to your own content that you provide to be displayed on the ticker.

You can have as many of your own channels as you like and you can make each channel display as many articles as you like - you could for instance post 10 articles into the input box - and the ticker will start ticking them from the top.

You might also like to offer your web site visitors your own 'Live Coverage'. (This is done by you updating your content every few minutes.) See further down the page for more details.

An explanation of how to add more than one article follows further down the page (Its easy, you just add the second article onto the end of the first one.)

Formatting rules

At present the only formatting decision you need to make is to split your article into where you want it to click-through, the title and the article itself - with each separate article surrounded by a pair of article tags.

You cannot use bold or italics in your text. It just ticks plain text.

This is how you format your information.

All information must have four bits to it. The surrounding article tags, the click-through destination, the title and the article itself.

Article Tags
Simply start each whole article with the tag
<ARTICLE>
And end each whole article with the tag
</ARTICLE>
click- through info
The first tag of every article must be the tag that indicates the web address where you would like your readers to go if they clicked onto your article for example:
<URL>http://example.com/pagewhereitwouldgo.html</URL>
Leave the tags in but just leave them blank if you don't want your article to click through to anywhere, for example:
<URL></URL>
Title
Then it must have title tags (which may be empty) which are like this:
<TITLE> Example Title </TITLE>
If you don't want any titles then just leave the tags with nothing in between. e.g.
<TITLE></TITLE>
Article body
The main bit is the content itself. Add your information between tags like this:
<BODY> Your article content goes here</BODY>
Close the article off with a finish article tag:
</ARTICLE>
The next article would then just follow on from that so the next tag after </ARTICLE>would be the next articles surrounding <ARTICLE>tag.

Adding more than one article

If you'd like to add the day's or week's articles at once then just put them all in together one after the other. So you'd put in something like this:

<ARTICLE>
  <URL>
  http://www.FirstArticleClicksThroughToHere.com
  </URL>
  <TITLE>
  First Article Title
  </TITLE>
  <BODY>
  First Article - main article text goes here
  </BODY>
</ARTICLE>

<ARTICLE>
  <URL>
  http://www.SecondArticleClicksThroughToHere.com
  </URL>
  <TITLE>
  Second Article Title
  </TITLE>
  <BODY>
  Second Article - main second article text here
  </BODY>
</ARTICLE>

<ARTICLE>
  <URL>
  </URL>
  <TITLE>
  Third Article Title note that it doesn't 
  click through anywhere
  </TITLE>
  <BODY>
  Third Article - main third article text here
  </BODY>
</ARTICLE>

<ARTICLE>
  <URL>
  http://www.FourthArticleClicksThroughToHere.com
  </URL>
  <TITLE>
  </TITLE>
  <BODY>
  Fourth Article - note that the fourth article 
  doesn't have any title
  </BODY>
</ARTICLE>

Your own 'LIVE COVERAGE'

Shortly we will be offering you full useage of our own Live Coverage ticker system, but until that system is ready, you can still tick minute by minute updated content on your existing ticker. To do this just utilise the BODY tags and keep the other tags empty. This is how you do it.

First - start up a new channel

Second - Put in all the tags needed (ARTICLE, URL, TITLE and BODY) but leave the URL and TITLE tags with nothing between them.

Third - Input your content between the <BODY></BODY> tags and press 'Go Live' to broadcast it.

Fourth - Replace the text between the <BODY></BODY> tags with new content, wait a couple of minutes and then press 'Go Live' again.

(It is a good idea to wait a bit between times because it allows tickers all over the world to have all collected and ticked through the previous content before refreshing with the new content.)

<ARTICLE>
  <URL></URL>
  <TITLE></TITLE>
  <BODY>
  Type in all your live coverage here
  And then press the 'Go Live' button 
  at the bottom of the form.
  </BODY>
</ARTICLE>
The delete the text you've just typed and start again with new 
stuff - then press 'Go Live' again etc etc.

If you are still unsure, the best thing is to try it out and see what it looks like on the test ticker. You'll find the test ticker link just next to the 'Go Live' button on your 'My Ticker' page.

Rules

There are national and international rules on what you can and can't publish. And bear in mind that its your responsibility - not ours - if something goes wrong or someone makes a claim against you. As a general guide, don't publish anything illegal, libellous, rude etc or anything that you don't have copyright or permission to publish. See our Terms and Conditions for an extensive (but not exhaustive) list of things you can't publish. Generally speaking the rules are the same for a normal website. And remember to keep your own copies of your content - don't rely on us to keep your information.

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