Weather, Maps, and Stock Quotes
January 24, 2000
Want to know when it's hot in Wall Street?
Well, probably there's no connection between the weather and
stock prices - except that we wish we had accurate
forecasts for both!
Cut and paste HTML code to add a weather image to your page.
The image displays the current temperature
(some also display the current time and weather conditions)
of the city of your choice, and it links back to a comprehensive
forecast page for that city on Weather Underground's site.
You can choose from several kinds of weather graphics on a
white or transparent background, as well as full-size banners
and slick weather gizmos. You also can choose to have the
information in English, metric, or both. They have forecasts
for all major United States cities and many smaller
burghs, as well as for many cities from
Canada,
Central American countries,
South American countries,
Asian countries,
European countries,
Australia,
African countries,
Antarctica,
etc.
Weather Warnings, Weather Watches, Forecasts, Conditions,
Reports, Images And Weather Information.
Current Conditions
Copy this code exactly as it appears with no modifications
except the following:
Replace [X] in the code with the 1st number of the zipcode
you want to display (Example 20724 -- replace X in the code
with 2).
Replace [YYYYY] in the code (in both places) with the
zipcode you want to display (Example 20724 -- replace YYYYY
in the code with 20724).
<!-- Begin Wx4u.Com Current Conditions Code -->
<table><tr><td bgcolor="white">
<a href="http://wx4u.com/index.asp?zip=YYYYY" target="wx4u">
<img src="http://wx4u.com/zipcode/X/YYYYY.gif"
border="0" alt="Wx4u.Com" width="195" height="150">
</a></td></tr></table>
<!-- End Wx4u.Com Current Conditions Code -->
(What's the table for??)
In-Depth Forecast
Same instructions as above:
<!-- Begin Wx4u.Com In-Depth Forecast Code -->
<table><tr><td bgcolor="white">
<a href="http://wx4u.com/index.asp?zip=YYYYY" target="wx4u">
<img src="http://wx4u.com/forecast/X/YYYYY.gif"
border="0" alt="Wx4u.Com" width="396" height="271">
</a></td></tr></table>
<!-- End Wx4u.Com In-Depth Forecast Code -->
Maps
Maps can be very useful on your site - e.g. to show people
who want to visit your bricks-and-mortar premises, how to get
there. Or, you can provide your visitors with a form so that
they can specify a location.
MapBlast.com
provides interactive maps, driving directions, business
finders, and local YellowPages.
They provide several ways for you to offer maps or mapping
facilities to your visitors. Here's a couple of examples.
Embedded Maps
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MapBlast! (Click on map to navigate)
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Form to Specify Location
Stock Quotes
They should pay me not to invest.
I bought several tech stocks at the beginning of the year -
including Lucent - and the next day they fell terribly -
especially Lucent. If you want to see how Lucent is doing now,
its ticker symbol is LU.
The HTML code I've used here is is substantially different
from the code offered by these sites - in both cases - since
theirs was, from the point of view of the
W3C validator,
very broken. At WDVL we try to
adhere to the standards
as far as possible.
So if you want the nerd version, view source.
This Quotes/Company Data feature focuses on publicly-traded
companies listed on the New York, American, Nasdaq (regular
and small cap), Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Alberta
stock exchanges. Through "Quickquote", your users can access
detailed quotes for the securities listed on each
of these exchanges, as well as the OTC Bulletin.
Information provided includes current price, change, daily
high and low, bid, ask, volume, 52 week high and low,
dividend, P/E and more.
The "Company Data" option allows users to retrieve basic
financial and corporate information for over 12,000 of those
companies, including relevant Web links and Web searches,
financial snapshots for over 5,000 companies and the ability
to order free annual reports for close to 3,000.
These features, combined with the ability to automatically
add retrieved companies into a user's E-Line Portfolio,
make "Company Data" both a powerful and unique research
resource.
For years Stockpoint has offered financial information and
analysis tools to online investors and corporations.
Now Stockpoint is offering you the opportunity to provide your
users access to a free online quote service from your Web site
without all the hassles of maintaining a financial database.
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