Racing Event Owners! Get A Event Countdown Image

asdfg11 · Aug 14, 2011

Hello all,

I wish to share with you, a count down image useful for helping people work out the time that your event starts. Here is an example which you would have in your racing event/series post.

blahblah race six, Rome, starts in

When this countdown finishes the following is displayed:

To make your own, go here http://gt5.zqz.me/count-down/.

Please direct all feedback (good or bad) here. 👍

A year has past since being asked but here is a donation button for anyone feeling kind!
Click me to donate!

Furinkazen · Aug 14, 2011

Useful. Thanks 👍

FishHunters · Aug 14, 2011

Great tool! Thanks a lot! I left the link in there. Gotta give support to those who help us! https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=216070

asdfg11 · Aug 16, 2011

Enjoy guys - any problems just let me know

Wardez · Aug 16, 2011

We've all been using this for a while. It's great man thanks a lot 👍

Any chance we can get more customization?

asdfg11 · Aug 16, 2011

What sort of customization would you be interested in?

Wardez · Aug 16, 2011

mmm, just basic stuff like fonts, colors, sizes?

Nothing too big, looks great as is.

Dr_Watson · Aug 16, 2011

nifty. 👍

suggestion: dropping the BB Code in a text box to make it easier to select and copy would be nice.

asdfg11 · Aug 18, 2011

I just need to make changes on the front end off the website so you guys can use the new features that I have coded. I will add Dr_Watsons BB code idea while I am there.

I added:
Background Colours
Font Colours
Font Size
Font choice..... Can we decide on a short list of fonts for me to install? The current was Arial.

Any more ideas welcome.

Wardez · Aug 18, 2011

Oooo fonts. Personally I'd love to see Syntax. Here's a few other of my favs: Helvetica, Tahoma, Georgia, Times New Roman, Franklin Gothic, Garamond, VAG Rounded, Digital Sans would also be cool if you could find it.

But thanks for taking our suggestions, this is such an awesome tool and you should put up a little donate button!

Now every one won't have the same looking one xD. Great.

asdfg11 · Aug 19, 2011

If you have a moment could you test out the new demo version please? I want to make sure nothing is broken before I replace the current version that everyone uses. The new demo is at http://gt5.zqz.me/cd2/

One thing I am aware of is transparency/no background colour - I am still looking into that.

Dr_Watson · Aug 19, 2011

much nicer. 👍

(php headers are fun aren't they

)

Wardez · Aug 19, 2011

It's great! Love the fonts ! hahaha, awesome stuff as.

But yeah, transparency option would put it right into legendary mode 👍

Dave1127 · Aug 19, 2011

Excellent, I will put this on the front of my race league page as it can be confusing with all the different timezones.

asdfg11 · Aug 20, 2011

Transparent (select white as the background colour)

Solid + curved

(I need glasses so I cant tell very well but this looks fuzzy?)

asdfg11 · Aug 20, 2011

Added sizes and Syntax font. You dont want to go too big or the forum resizes it - but I believe it depends on the screen size of the user seeing it. Default has always been 24.

Furinkazen · Aug 20, 2011

+1 for this Thread to be a sticky

asdfg11 · Aug 21, 2011

Thanks

I'll probably replace the old version today unless I find anything broken.

Edit: Ok redirected the old site to the new

asdfg11 · Aug 24, 2011

I am wondering if a image which showed a table of starting dates of the most common few timezones would be of any use.

Here is a short example

GMT(+0000) Wed Aug 11 18:02
EST(-0500) Wed Aug 11 13:02
CST(-0600) Wed Aug 11 12:02
ETC(+0000) Wed Aug 11 18:02

Let me know.

Wardez · Aug 24, 2011

That would totally be of great use. I'd love that and I'm sure every one else would too.

Great work 👍

asdfg11 · Aug 25, 2011

My biggest issue is figuring out which timezones to include. If someone can offer any insight please get in touch.

Even according to Internet users per time zone (chart) there would be quite a few..?

KWAKAMAN · Aug 28, 2011

Cant seem to get this to work.

Dave1127 · Sep 1, 2011

This thread should definitely be a sticky. Very handy..

asdfg11 · Sep 3, 2011

I can't see that happening but thanks

asdfg11 · Nov 3, 2011

Shameless bump

and if anyone wants to donate, DLC would be a good way

asdfg11 · Feb 26, 2012

Anyone still using this?

WRP001 · Feb 26, 2012

Absolutely. Use it often. In fact it's useful enough that I've made it sticky. I'm checking with a few other mods to make sure they agree, but for now at least it's a sticky. 👍

Furinkazen · Feb 26, 2012

About time it got stickied. 👍

easy9 · Mar 17, 2012

Thanks for the count down:tup:

Wardez · May 3, 2012

Oh crap, I think I broke your server! :x

It's down atm, not sure if it's 'cause of maintenance on the other side of the box or what have you, but yeah, heads up.

Thanks again btw, great service.

Back up now, probably just a slight regular hiccup I've never encountered before. Just freaked out 'cause I was working on a thread layout xD :dunce:

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