A neat little jquery ticker built for testimonials or tweets or anything that should tick tick tick....

bangingTicker.css

/*Container*/
ul#testi_ticker {
	font-size: 1.667em;
	height: 10em;
	overflow: hidden;
	padding: 4.5em 0.4333em 0.4333em;
	position: relative;
	color: #447a8d;
}

/*element*/
ul#testi_ticker li {
	height: 12em;
	list-style: none;
	text-align: center;
	border: none;
       opacity:0;
}

bangingTicker.js

$(document).ready(function(){
    /*
           note that smoothing this out relys on the CSS
           the children elements must have opacity set to 0
           initially, and the container should also be hidden
           in the CSS.
        */
    function bangingTicker(container,element) {

        // store the container
        var tickContainer = $(container);

        /* wrap the original tick function in a
        callback function to the fadeIn*/
        tickContainer.fadeIn(1000, function(){

            function tick()     {
                // get the elements on each pass
                var tickElem = tickContainer.children(element);

                tickElem.eq(1).siblings().animate({
                    opacity: 0
                },400, function() {
                    // movement animation
                    tickContainer.stop(true,true).delay(10).animate({
                        'margin-top': 120
                        },0,function() {
                            tickContainer.animate({
                            'margin-top': 20
                            },8000);
                        });

                    // rotating the elements
                    tickElem.first().appendTo(tickContainer);

                    // Show the first Element
                    tickElem.eq(1).delay(200).animate({
                        opacity: 1
                    },400);
                });

            } // end tick

            /* run the function once to avoid waiting
            for the interval on the first animation*/
            tick();

            // run the function at a set interval
            setInterval(function(){ tick() }, 4000);

        }); // end container fade in

    }

    // Run the function
    bangingTicker('#testi_ticker','li');
});​