HTML in Daily Quotes?

Anyone know how or if it's possible... to put HTML in Daily Quotes?

Just try it and see  .....  I don't have it enabled or I'd try  ..... 

go to phpMyAdmin > DailyQuotes table  "text" (without quotes) field  ..... 
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I did try to put an HTML link into the Daily Quote and no go... it just places text in the quote... unclickable.

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Yes, you can! I think hourly quotes are even better since most people don't really pay attention to them anyway, but yeah, you can do quotes in an HTML block with a simple gif animation or rotating banner java. What takes a lot of load time and file size in animations is generally the actual amount of different colors being used and/or the physical pixel size of the image itself. With quotes (text) only, your colors would be way reduced and if the quotes are supposed to fit into a homepage block then the physical image size would be very small too. The key is to keep the colors down to 16 or less ....

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You can create an html block via admin/builders ... perhaps about 400 or 500 px wide (make it conform to one of your homepage columns), and then create a basic 8 color (or even less) image for each quote along with a transparent background. Then you could make a gif animation out of all of your quotes. Granted, it's a bit of work, but you could set up between 30 and 50 quotes like that in one file - setting the order for 3.600.000 (3600 seconds i.e. 60 minutes) between images. Due to the lack of colors and size, you'd be surprised how small an animated .gif file like that would be ... since the same colors are being used over and over thus causing the file itself to never increase much past the first image. But the same thing is also possible with a rotating banner javascript. Just use a text editor to place all of the quote images that you created into the script, and then dump the whole thing into your homepage html block. Matter of fact, you don't even need to include tables, head, body, or any of that stuff. Just a tag with the code and perhaps a center command to line it all up evenly.

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I'll be doing the same thing shortly (in a few days), kind'a fancy with just a couple of dozen quotes. Text in 2 different colors with a background color for each second image/quote. I don't think that it'll take me more than 2 or 3 hours from beginning to end but when I'm done I'll post it so you can look at it.

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Greetings from Germany

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I'll be doing the same thing shortly (in a few days), kind'a fancy with just a couple of dozen quotes. Text in 2 different colors with a background color for each second image/quote. I don't think that it'll take me more than 2 or 3 hours from beginning to end but when I'm done I'll post it so you can look at it.

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Alright, I just put it online today.

You can see the quotes on the Community Homepage by clicking this line!

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I went a little overboard, doing it a little more fancy than I had initially planned. Consequently my image animation with 14 quotes ended up being about 80 kb in size. If I had stuck to what I mentioned above, the colors could have been reduced down a lot more thereby making the file only half that size or even smaller. But hey, in this day and age of dsl the 80 kb file size is really not a big deal anymore. Since the homepage is the place where people probably spend the least amount of time "just hanging out" I also decided that it would be more prudent to have the quotes switch every 60 seconds. Heck, after awhile any regular members would probably ignore them anyway. So there you have it ... standard hml for displaying quotes!

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Greetings from Germany