var tWidth='560px';                  // width (in pixels)
var tHeight='30px';                  // height (in pixels)
var tcolour='#F4F1EB';               // background colour:
var moStop=true;                     // pause on mouseover (true or false)
var fontfamily = 'Bradley Hand ITC'; // font for content
var tSpeed=4;                        // scroll speed (1 = slow, 5 = fast)

// enter your ticker content here (use \/ and \' in place of / and ' respectively)
var content='Congratulations to the Dance Team for placing 3rd at State!    Go Indians... ';

var cps=tSpeed; 
var aw, mq; 
var fsz = parseInt(tHeight) - 6; 
function startticker(){
	if (document.getElementById) {
		var tick = '<div style="position:relative;width:'+tWidth+';height:'+tHeight+';overflow:hidden;background-color:'+tcolour+'"'; 
		if (moStop) 
			tick += ' onmouseover="cps=0" onmouseout="cps=tSpeed"'; 
			tick +='><div id="mq" style="position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;font-family:'+fontfamily+';font-size:'+fsz+'px;white-space:nowrap;color:#800000;font-weight:bold"><\/div><\/div>'; 
			document.getElementById('ticker').innerHTML = tick; 
			mq = document.getElementById("mq"); 
			mq.style.left=(parseInt(tWidth)+10)+"px"; 
			mq.innerHTML='<span id="tx">'+content+'<\/span>'; 
			aw = document.getElementById("tx").offsetWidth; 
			lefttime=setInterval("scrollticker()",50);}} 
		
function scrollticker(){
	mq.style.left = (parseInt(mq.style.left)>(-10 - aw)) ?parseInt(mq.style.left)-cps+"px" : parseInt(tWidth)+10+"px";} 
	
window.onload=startticker;