For Old Toad - Your Scrolling Text

Hi Old Toad,
I went to your example site and copied the code for your scrolling banner. I inserted the code as an html widget and all I did was change the text color and the text itself. I tried it out by publishing to a folder and for some reason it does not seem to work?
Do you need to publish to a server or MobileMe for it to work? Will it not work when publishing to a folder?
Any idea why not?

I just tried adding the same code to a new text site and it won't work. It just shows the text and doesn't scroll. I found another site and it's code work:.
http://www.quackit.com/html/htmlgenerators/html_marqueegenerator.cfm
There are lots or scrolling marquee generator sites out there. Some let you use background images, etc.
I had do do some tweaking of the color, size, etc. but it worked as advertised.

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