The Darkbane site disbanded (or something) and changed their website, so the status is no longer available. The only thing I've found so far to replace it is from this site... it provides an image, so you can't change the style

http://www.wowrealmstatus.net/

Thanks for your help 

LOL Pentamorous,

We think alike... I only dabble in Javascript, but I tried writing something that would get the server status, but apparently you can't read XML (or RSS Feed) from a different website without certain permissions. It works great on my desktop, but when I post it I only get a "uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLDocument.load" error - maybe someone out there with better knowledge of Javascript can tell me how to solve this one? hehe

I forgot to post this earlier, but it seems that tht Darkbane site still appears to work, but it showed the server as up on Tuesday morning during maintenance. So I wouldn't trust it anymore =(

On the other hand, it seems like RPG Outfitter server status is customizable. I looked at the post they have on their forums here. It looks like you can make the background, font styles and colors match your website. Sadly, the only thing you can't customize is the color of the server status "Up" or "Down" and the population colors of "Low", "Medium" and "High".

I was messing around and got this status:


* I made it extra wide to show the background texture

url of code above: http://www.rpgoutfitter.com/wow-gm-rs/realmstatus.cfm?Realm=Dragonblight-US&bgcolor=000&color=ff8000 &realm.font-size=16px&status.color=80FFFF&population.color=80FFFF&realm.font-family=times&status.font-family=courier &background=url(http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh311/hotwow/themes/styles/bkgd_stone1.jpg) repeat-x

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You can add stuff simply by editing (green text) & adding pieces of code from below:

start with:
http://www.rpgoutfitter.com/wow-gm-rs/realmstatus.cfm?Realm=Dragonblight-US

then add these styles as you like, but there is a limit to how much you can add though:

&icon=0	0=hide, 1=show (the text will be replaced with an image)
&bgcolor=000000	background color
&color=ffffff	overall text color
&background=url(http://) no-repeat	background image (and repeat code if you want: no-repeat, repeat-x or repeat-y)
&realm.color=000000	realm font color
&realm.font-size=14px	realm font size
&realm.font-family=times	realm font family
&realm.font-weight=bold	realm font weight: normal or bold
&realm.font-style=italic	realm font style: normal or italic
&status.color=000000	status font color
&status.font-size=14px	status font size
&status.font-family=times	status font family
&status.font-weight=bold	status font weight: normal or bold
&status.font-style=italic	status font style: normal or italic
&population.color=000000	population font color
&population.font-size=14px	population font size
&population.font-family=times	population font family
&population.font-weight=bold	population font weight: normal or bold
&population.font-style=italic	population font style: normal or italic

Ok, I've gotten a little crazy with the server status on my site. 

I saw Mottie's post above using an IFrame within in the post to demonstrate styles and fonts, etc..  And I wondered if I could use an IFrame to have a transparent server status over my site banner.

Well I did it.   Check it out here.

It's an IFrame of the RPGO server status, using a semi transparent .png files as the background, inserted in a table which has its background image set to my banner image.

Here's my code.  (well partially)

 <table style="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr>

<tdstyle="width: 833px; height: 152px;" align="right"background="http://www.axiomfiles.com/Files/32850/newquintbannerthin833.jpg"valign="middle"><div align="center">
   </div><table style="width: 833px; height: 152px;"bordercolor="" cellpadding="0"cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr>
        <td style="width: 220px;" align="center"><iframesrc="http://www.rpgoutfitter.com/wow-gm-rs/realmstatus.cfm?Realm=Dragonblight-US&amp;icon=1&amp;color=ffffff&amp;background=url%28http://www.axiomfiles.com/Files/32850/white20.png%29%20repeat"frameborder="0" height="35" width="150">
            </iframe><br><br></td>
       
        <td style="width: 413px;">&nbsp;</td>
       
        <td style="width: 200px;" align="center" valign="bottom"><div align="center">
            <br><br><br><div align="right"><br></div></div><div align="right">
           </div><table align="right"background="http://www.axiomfiles.com/Files/32850/white30.png"bordercolor="" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" height="18"width="100"><tbody><tr align="center">
           <td><font size="1"><ahref="/ContentControls/Support/FullGallery.aspx?GuildID=32850&amp;TabID=293478"><strong>ImageGallery</strong></a></font></td></tr>
            </tbody></table></td>
    </tr></tbody></table>
</td>

<td style="width: 167px; height: 152px;" valign="top">
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</td></tr></tbody></table>



I edited out the section of code that's doing the Image Gallery in the banner.  It's really a nasty cut-n-paste hack, that has to be updated manually.  And I figured it would just confuse this thread so I cut that code out.



**edit**  gaah  that one line of code has no spaces.. screwin up the formatting of the forum.

Dooh!

I checked IE with a transparent background in a table.  And it worked ok for my little Image Gallery link.  I just tried a few things with a table wrapping the IFrame, and no good.  IE just insists that an IFrame is not ever gonna be transparent.  (cry)

Oh well, it still readable in IE now.  Folks with better compliant browsers get a better experience on my site.  I guess that's not so bad.