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[mrdee]

I have been thinking about a solution for the following:

When I announce something on my website, an event that is some time away, how can I make it re-appear, without having to constantly repeat the post?

To make things a bit clearer: my (static) page is laid out with a table on the left, whe the menu resides, and then on the right, I have the main body, where separate articles appear, one above the other, every time with a separate table for a new article, made up by date (see attached screenshot).

Obviously, as new articles appear (and I update daily), the announcement is going to be pushed to the bottom more and more, and after a few days, it probably will not get noticed anymore.

I am not keen on using a pop-up, as many people have pop-up blockers in place, which might still make many people miss the announcement.
Is there a way I could let the announcement stand out every time someone visits the page in question, eg. by making the article 'float' over the main body of the page or something like that?

Any suggestion is,of course welcome, I am sure many knowledgeable and more experienced people than myself will probably have a solution in mind.

Thank you very much in advance for any useful suggestions I may receive.

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[Indego_Media]

why not go back to some old school webdesign such as a scrollilng banner across the top of your page with a link to another page with the full even details.

you could also incorporate a calendar style area that again could be linked to the event.

either of these will work but I have a preference for the old school scrolling banner simple and very effective at getting the attention of vistiors new or regular.

Anyway hope it helps

Cheers
Jase

[mrdee]

Yes, Jase, that has helped for sure.

Why on earth did I not think about that.

am going to make work of it right away the scrolling banner, that is).

Thank you so much for your very valuable advice.

[Indego_Media]

mrdee, on 17 May 2011 - 12:19 AM, said:

Yes, Jase, that has helped for sure.

Why on earth did I not think about that.

am going to make work of it right away the scrolling banner, that is).

Thank you so much for your very valuable advice.

MrDee, pleased I could help you out, sometimes the simplest things are just out of our sight. but they make the biggest difference in life.

[mrdee]

True, we always seem to overlook the obvious, don't we?

Nevertheless, thanks again.

[anwiii]

well do you use a content management system? i know wordpress has a sticky feature which can sticky a post. also, there are a couple plugins that can do what you are asking.

[mrdee]

No, I don't, anwiii.

I did start testing Wordpress but I could never get it to work properly, so I stuck to static pages.

[anwiii]

well i tried to search your site for the page with the articles you are talking about and couldn't find it. it's still a little vauge to me since you aren't using a cms platform for your articles. so are you going to write a script using a database or are you going to hard code your articles directly in the html? obviously, if you're writing your articles directly in the html, then it realy fairly easy to have an anouncement always stay on top. so i am assuming you are planning to build the page using a database? if so, what script are you using to do this? there is a reason why people use a cms for this sorta stuff ya know

i highly suggest installing wordpress on one of your pages where you are writing your articles. it would make things a lot easier. i suggest wordpress because the other content management systems don't offer as much support or addons and plugins

[mrdee]

The page you were looking for is http://www.vlaandere...org.uk/news.htm .
It is plain old HTML, as I have not made anything like commenting o posts etc. available.

I will just do a scrolling banner on top.

[web_designer]

if you want the "oh dear" topic to stay in the main page. "this is what i understood i hope it is right " you can use CSS with HTML static pages. just add a div under the header and put your code for thr post there inside the div tag and be sure to write all your posts under it. i think it is much more simpler and look prettier than the scrolling idea even it is a good idea too. but i always prefer using CSS you know, any way, it is another solution i hope it may help you, good luck.