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Any good sites/ways to freely design a "latest news widget banner" thats like on WhiteHouse.gov?

Asked by VisionaryAdvait (134points) | asked May 27th, 2009 | 4 responses | “Great Question” (0points) | Flag as…

It seems many good sites now have a dynamic moving banner on the front page with their latest news or a picture and a caption, a big example might be the front page of WHiteHouse.Gov. Not just an RSS feed but a nicer flash looking one. Are there any good sites or ways to design this?

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They are using jcarousel. It is a jquery plugin.

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Any good widgets out there that are easier than changing the code every time?

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johnpowell's avatar

Well, it depends on the source. If it is a RSS feed you could parse that. Or you could write a back-end and use a database to update it. That is actually easier than it sounds.

But really, it depends on the source of the data.

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This might be closer to what you want. Demo

But you still need to feed it data.

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