News and Design : What to choose ?

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 9:57 am

I have nearly finished my newsticker system (which is now dynamicaly done over the botnet, all the parsing is done by a limbo bot), now i start to thing about different designs.

what would you prefer (or maybe suggest other versions)?

[mysite.com] some headline (http://mysite.com/something.php&news=xxx) (the current version)
<mysite.com> some headline - http://mysite.com/something.php&news=xxx
>>> mysite.com - someheadline >>> http://mysite.com/something.php&news=xxx

Post by **caesar** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:26 am

The first one.

Turambar · Post by **Turambar** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:28 am

first one
draws more attention because of the bold an ()
all in all, looks nicer

arcane · Post by **arcane** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:29 am

first one

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:38 pm

Turambar wrote:draws more attention because of the bold an ()

right now i have it running in test channels with different designs, with ~2-4 newslines each minute its really hard to pay attention to all of them
what about different design for each kind of ticker (e.g. coding, gaming, politics, news, tec, etc) ?

Post by **caesar** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:54 pm

[News Flash] Bla bla bla.. For more info. visit http://mysite.com/something.php&news=xx or whatever.. and the same *design* for all

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 2:06 pm

i'm currently thinking of adding graphical stats via RRDTool, but it seams i'm just too stupid to learn the handling of this program
to add new entrys to the dbase isnt the problem since the timestamp is the in unixtime format, but to create a dbase, set the resolution and all this stuff is little over the top for me :/

Post by **CrazyCat** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:03 am

Hey GodOfSuicide, I didn't receive your mail, but I'll try to help you here

If you have a look in my ircgraph.tcl, you may see:

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Rrd::create $newfile DS:userslocal:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:ircops:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:usersglobal:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:channels:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:invisibles:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:normals:GAUGE:600:U:U DS:totalservers:GAUGE:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:600 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797 RRA:MAX:0.5:1:600 RRA:MAX:0.5:6:700 RRA:MAX:0.5:24:775 RRA:MAX:0.5:288:797

This is the creation of a database with default values, so step is 300 seconds, and the 600 value in DS:name:GAUGE.... is the max delay between two updates.
If you want to have an update every minute, use the --step (or -s) value, this give you:

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Rrd::create $newfile -s 60 DS:userslocal:GAUGE:120:U:U DS:ircops:GAUGE:120:U:U DS:usersglobal:GAUGE:120:U:U DS:channels:GAUGE:120:U:U DS:invisibles:GAUGE:120:U:U DS:normals:GAUGE:120:U:U DS:totalservers:GAUGE:120:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:700 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797 RRA:MAX:0.5:1:600 RRA:MAX:0.5:6:700 RRA:MAX:0.5:24:775 RRA:MAX:0.5:288:797

This gives you a step of 1 minute (60 seconds:)) and the gauges can stay 2 minutes max without being updated.
Does this help you?

GodOfSuicide · Post by **GodOfSuicide** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 9:18 am

k, i'll try to work with that, thanks cc

Post by **CrazyCat** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:26 am

good luck, if it doesn't work you never see me, never read me... never heard about me

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