Weekly Broadcast Stack or Snippet

JeffCheadle

Hi all. I'm interested in having a weekly broadcast countdown on the home page of our church website. Something like http://codecanyon.net/item/broadcast-countdown-widget/1539525. If you are a Stack developer, I would like to suggest you develop something like this. If anyone has a lead on a modifiable javascript snippet I would be grateful. The idea is not just a plain vanilla countdown script, but one that rests for the same time next week once the countdown time has been reached. Thanks to all!

mitchellm

It is unlikely that the many Stack developers will read your post (some will). You might want to contact some directly. E.g. Joe Workman makes the Liftoff stack. While it does not repeat, this might be a feature he'd be willing to add in the future.

Typically a counter is used for special or unusual one-off events. But you want to use it for a regular repeating event. My guess is a counter would get really tiresome to folks (after the initial gee-whizz faze). However, you might want to consider the Publisher stacks. They allow you to repeat key messages over intervals you determine. This means you could have one message for the Monday prior, another for the Tuesday prior, etc. etc. It's a very flexible and ingenious stack (I'm not doing it justice).

While this is not a counter stack per se, it could end up serving your purposes better. After all, with repeating events, do people really need the hours and minutes? At any rate it's worth a look:
http://www.tsooj.net/products/publisher/

JeffCheadle

Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Interestingly, I have used the Publishers Stack as you have suggested. It works ok but is not quite what I'm looking for. Also I have contacted Joe with the suggestion and hope that he might follow up on it.

mitchellm

Great. Let us know if Joe (or someone else) is going to do a "repeating" counter.