The following is a suggestion that you can use on your site to generate some interest in the new District. Perhaps you might have other suggestions we can use on our site... Please let us know.
Copy the following code to the place you want the countdown timer to appear. Just be careful that there are no other charactors before EMBED except the < and there is a space after EMBED . The code should finish with >. Make sure that the end of the last line finishes with ...getflashplayer"> not getflashplayer"">.
<EMBED SRC="http://games.webgamedesign.com/free/counter2.swf?title=Carolinas%20Countdown%20to%20July%201%2C%202010&count=down&time=1277956800000&bgc=0x0066ff&bgb=8&bgd=0&bc=0xcccccc&bb=7&bd=0&tc=0xcccccc&tb=2&td=2&uc=0x99ccff&ub=0&ud=2&nc=0x333333&nb=0&nd=0" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" NAME="Free Counter" ALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH=500 HEIGHT=100 quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
You can check out the site by clicking the box above or here http://www.webgamedesign.com/countdown.php
If you have any difficulties just go to the site, setup the counter as you want it then copy and past the code into your page.
Once on the WebGameDesign site you can modify whatever you want....
Have fun