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Design your own news channel

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Follow the instructions on this page and in a few minutes you can have the Economics Network's automatically-updated news channel on your site. The channel lists events, news and resources for university teachers of economics.

To see what the channel looks like with the default options, click on the 'Display this feed'" button. You can come back afterwards to tweak the display options.

Section 1: Channel Display Options

The news channel has a title, description, image and a series of items. It also has a text box allowing you to search our site. Please select the features that you want to display.

Channel Header
Name:
Image:
Name & image:
Channel description
Channel description:
"News on university teaching and learning in Economics, including resource announcements."
News items
Title:
Title & description:
Other items
Textinput box:
This will enable users to search the Economics Network site from your web page.

Section 2: Table / List Display Options

These options allow you to set the display width of channel, whether a visible border is displayed around it, and whether you want news item titles to be displayed as list items.

  • If you have selected above for the channel image to be displayed, then you will not be able to set the display width of the channel in pixels to be any less than the width of the image, that is 102 pixels.
  • If the items that you wish to display contain exceptionally long words or URLs you may find that setting low limits on the table width fails to take effect.
Table width:    Pixels: Percentage: Display table border: Display news title as list:

Section 3: Font Options

These options allow you to set some font display options (serif or sanserif, size, bold or not) for the available channel items. Please note that:

  • If you have not elected to display any of the items below in section 1 then (obviously) setting the font options will have no effect.
Channel title Font style: Size: Display in bold:
Channel description Font style: Size: Display in bold:
News title Font style: Size: Display in bold:
News description Font style: Size: Display in bold:
Textinput description Font style: Size: Display in bold:

Section 4: Colour Display Options

These options allow you to set the colours that your channel will display in. You can either enter an html color code directly (in the hex format #00FF00) or click on a colour in the image map to choose from the web safe 216 palette. Please note that:

  • If you have not elected to display some of the items listed below in section 1 then altering their colours will (obviously) have no effect.
  • The term 'Other' refers jointly to the textinput box, channel publication date and copyright statement, which you may have elected not to display in section 1 (the default is not to).
  • Channel names and news item titles are links. Changing their colours overrides settings on your own site ONLY if you are using CSS for your link settings.
Select an item:

Then click on a colour in the palette:
Selected items will alter the defaults in the boxes below.		 216 colour web-safe palette
Channel name text Set by link colour Channel name background
Channel description text Channel description background
News title text Set by link colour News title background
News description text News description background
Other text Other background
Link colour Table border

See these Settings in Action

Click on the 'Display this feed' button to see what the news feed will look like with the settings you have entered.