HTML and CoverItLive News

Many of you may already know this, but I'll toss it out to both our staff and many followers who are starting to use the CoverItLive engine. We are encouraging links to live stats and live streams, and if you use the News Alert box to place the links. Sure, you can just drop them in raw, and the system will make them live, but you'll get something nasty like:

http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/newLiveStats/Volleyball/index.html?GAME_STAT_ID=510588&db_oem_id=6100

A little tinkering, and you can put any standard HTML commands in the news alert space, which means you can get a nice representation like:

Live Stats || Live Video

by just adding in the "A HREF=" command plus a little formatting from a CENTER, FONT SIZE=3 and B at the opening of the info. Obviously, you need to add your "<" brackets around those commands. Except for closing the HREF's, I save the extra characters that closing the formatting would normally require. You have only 450 characters to use in the news alert space. If you view source this blog to see the code here, it does have the proper HTML syntax because Blogger won't allow the broken formatting.

Now, right up front with your scoreboard, you have the quick links to encourage fans to get more stats than what the text-oriented blog provides and a way to push them to the video or audio to enhance the on-line interaction.