Q-NewsTicker is a professional Flash based, easy to use tool for creating news scrollers for your Web sites.

Pros: Q-NewsTicker is a professional Flash based, easy to use tool for creating news scrollers for Web sites. No Flash or programming skills required. There are several things that can be created. The names given are Newsline, Galleries and personal lines. Newsline features creation of a moving news panel. There can be thumbnail images with the news write up and several motion parameters can be customized to create interesting effects on how the news items move in the window. The window shows multiple items serially one after another in a vertical fashion. Being done in Flash the effects are quite attractive.

Galleries are for showing off images in the same vertical movement fashion. Personal lines are news items focused on a particular topic. Foe example one may want to display all news items on a particular celebrity or all news about some subject, rock concerts for example. All the tools are collected together with a simple interface to create interesting collections of such tickers/galleries.

Large amount of readymade skins are available and one just has to be selected and the news items added. Graphics surrounding these items such as background, buttons and news images could be changed easily. CSS and XML format of the news items help generate news on the fly by languages like PHP, ASP, Ruby on Rails etc., if necessary. What makes the ticker really eye-catching are the motion effects, and there are a large set of these effects available for use. One can mix and use multiple effects for the most attention grabbing presentation.

Finally the publishing tools, which include positioning customization of the pages, round off the facilities available.

Cons: No problems detected.

Overall a definite 4 star candidate.