Weather Reports

I went to a coaster website recently and noticed that they had a small box at the bottom of the page, probably no bigger than the text field I am posting this here message in, which contained the Sandusky weather report (obviously, it was a CP oriented site) plus a small box where you could enter another ZIP code or city name to get another weather report.

Since a good majority of us Buzzers try to plan their trips around a fair weather day, I think it would be an asset to the site to include this little box at the bottom of the main page or on a separate link.  And since weather.com has so many freakin' pop-up ads and loads so slowly, it would be less of a hassle for Buzzers looking to catch a good day to hit their favorite parks.  What does everybody think?  When I find the site with the weather.com box on it, I'll post the URL.

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The Luv Monkey has spoken...
NITRO kicks it into high gear...only at Six Flags Great Adventure!
Track Record: 28 and counting...

Its a pretty god idea but I dont think it would happen because it is too much of a hassle.

What do you know about what is a hassle for me?

I'd have to go look at TWC's interface. It used to be that you could only link to them via zip. I think now you can do it be city, which would be easy to do since cities are in the park records.

Of course, that doesn't mean I have time to check. ;)

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"From the global village... in the age of communication!"
Watch the grass grow!

OK, after examining the weather.com website, it appears that you merely have to register on the site, then give your username and password and I assume they'll give you the HTML code to use the "weather magnet" (the box I referred to) free of charge.  I still haven't been able to find the magnet on an actual site (my TIFs and history erase after one day) but when I do, I'll give more info...
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The Luv Monkey has spoken...
NITRO kicks it into high gear...only at Six Flags Great Adventure!
Track Record: 28 and counting...

I have such a "magnet" on GTTP, but I don't remember how it works. Keep this in mind... the park pages in this site are all the same page, just populated with the data that pertains to a particular park. If some of that data can be dumped into some part of the TWC's HTML to get the right city, then it's all good.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
"From the global village... in the age of communication!"
Watch the grass grow!

I have one on my Cedar Point site... I checked the code for the magent and it looks like it is still by zip. But I did see a small code(from a html site) that turns a city name into a zip code.

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Andrew Hyde
http://www.experiencethepoint.com
Author- Experience The Point: The Unofficial Guidebook To Cedar Point

*** This post was edited by Andrew on 8/28/2001. ***

Jeff--

And that, of course, requires time...

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The Luv Monkey has spoken...
NITRO kicks it into high gear...only at Six Flags Great Adventure!
Track Record: 28 and counting...

I have the Weather Magnet on my web site, and in the box at top, it says "Enter A City or US Zip".  In the main box, it has the weather in the city that you signed it up for.