This stack creates a simple text-scrolling marquee effect that you can use in webpages to display important messages to your website users. Free to download, really simple to setup, and several customisable settings to make it look like your own.
Use the custom classes option in the stack and wire-up your favourite free CMS like Cushy or Surreal. Then clients can login remotely (without needing RapidWeaver) to change the content of the DotMatrix stack.
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Set the content type to Stacks and try any one of the dozen or more CMS stacks already available on the market (e.g. DropCMS). DotMatrix will attempt to scroll whatever stacks are nested inside of itself.
I’m unaware of any replacement to the old HTML < marquee> tags or solutions for outside of Stacks page types.
Following the demise of marquees it seems most websites (still wanting to deploy one) used Javascript effects instead. But the Javascript plugins I found for marquees were neither easy to setup or elegant in their function. Common problems included:
Limited support for different content types, like Markdown, basic HTML or links
No option to pause the slider on mouseover
Limits on the maximum width of content supported
Poor (or in many cases zero) responsive support or screen resizing bugs
Very rough / jittery animation effects on iOS / Android
Content missing when you came to print or PDF a page
Having to write your content into Javascript code and escape special characters
The nicest newsticker / marquee script I could find was built on the MooTools JS Library some years back. IE 11 / Edge support was questionable, according to some of the comments. I don’t have much MooTools knowledge and I believe MooTools support got removed in Stacks 3. So that effectively ruled-that out as an option. CSS animations are far more appropriate for this sort of thing in my opinion, and fairly sophisticated in what they can be coded to do - if you like messing around with code and hacking things together!
Hello Will
Thanks for the explanations.
I have searched a lot for corresponding code, but has not really find it.
Now I’m going to keep looking, because I like to play around with code
Does not work in all stacks pages, depends on theme and placement. For instance, in the Majestic Theme, it works properly only when outside an EC area. Inside an EC area, the dot-matrix font, colouring, flashing lights don’t work.
So, be careful on placement of this stack in your Theme.
Like I said, it depends on the Theme being used, the placement of the stack…
The stack itself works as advertised for me on Safari in the body area of Majestic Theme but not an EC area of the same theme.
Each browser handles things a little differently so without seeing where you have the stack placed on the page (in edit mode) or knowing what version of RW/Stacks/OSX you are using, troubleshooting is tough at best
It might even just be a cache issue for Safari, have you tried clearing the cache?
Great timing. I’ve just completed a redesign and rebranding of a site for my daughter and this has allowed me to place a message by way of explanation for anybody who may think they’ve arrived at the wrong site. Thank you.