Hi Everyone,
I've added an "exit" pop up to my web site, which allows visitors to subscribe to my newsletter, and I need some constructive feedback on it.
My questions:
1. In your browser does it display correctly and what type of browser do you use?
2. Is this pop up too annoying?
3. Any other comments or suggestions?
Thanks for your time.
Gavin Knowles
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Brooke posted this at 18:41 — 1st May 2002.
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I think that it works. Personally I don't like pop ups or use them. But that does not mean it will remind someone and it will work.
But it looks good to me!
Brooke
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davidjaymz posted this at 08:31 — 2nd May 2002.
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Hi...
In Opera 6.01 the popup appears as just the title bar, I had to manually drag it so that I could see the content... I'm gussing you've used javascript to size the new window... You'll have to check out another way to do this for it work in Opera....
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 08:43 — 2nd May 2002.
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Too annoying. Sorry.
a) onUnload is also triggered when changing to another page (even those on your site) and when refreshing/page back, forward etc, not just when closing window.
b) There are reasonable uses for pop ups but IMO this isn't. I'd prefer to see an easily accessible form in the main window to sign up.
c) I had to disable PopUp Stopper to test it. I would never have seen it otherwise. (Thus, I would not have signed up.) Consider b.
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gavin681 posted this at 15:43 — 2nd May 2002.
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Thanks for the feedback guys.
DavidJaymz, Thanks for the info I had the height set to "1" as I noticed it didn't make any difference in IE and Netscape but I guess in Opera it does so I changed height to "96". Does it display ok now?
Abhishek Reddy, sorry I'm sticking with it as my clients who use it have been getting 300% increase in signups. It may be annoying to some people but a larger mailing list means more sales in the long run for my clients.
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davidjaymz posted this at 16:20 — 2nd May 2002.
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Displays properly now...
Hope it works out for you...
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disaster-master posted this at 17:51 — 2nd May 2002.
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Looks fine on IE6, Opera6, NS 4.79.
However, it not only pops up on exit, it also pops up between pages too. Wasn't sure if it was suppossed to do this or not.
I hate pop ups but this one isn't too annoying and I feel that it serves its purpose.
Sonia
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gavin681 posted this at 18:12 — 2nd May 2002.
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Thanks DavidJaymz.
disaster-master. Yes pops up when leaving the home page. I will be adding a cookie code which will stop the pop up if someone has already subscribed.
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The Webmistress posted this at 19:43 — 2nd May 2002.
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I would just have it one the page, I always instantly just close any pop ups on close as they are always adverts and if I wanted to subscribe to a newsletter I'd find the link on the main site otherwise it just feels like it's being thrust in my face. Sorry
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
mjames posted this at 00:42 — 4th May 2002.
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It would probably be more effective if you made it to popup once - ever. Users don't need to see it every time they leave and it will only be annoying for regular visitors. Also, some sort of small image might make it more attractive. It's definitely not too small.
I use a popup for my newsletter on my site using cookies: http://sports-central.org/popup.shtml
Use this code (change the config parts at bottom if interested):
<!--function getCookieVal (offset) {
var endstr = document.cookie.indexOf (";", offset);
if (endstr == -1)
endstr = document.cookie.length;
return unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, endstr));
}
function GetCookie (name) {
var arg = name + "=";
var alen = arg.length;
var clen = document.cookie.length;
var i = 0;
while (i < clen) {
var j = i + alen;
if (document.cookie.substring(i, j) == arg)
return getCookieVal (j);
i = document.cookie.indexOf(" ", i) + 1;
if (i == 0)
break;
}
return null;
}
function SetCookie (name, value) {
var argv = SetCookie.arguments;
var argc = SetCookie.arguments.length;
var expires = (2 < argc) ? argv[2] : null;
var path = (3 < argc) ? argv[3] : null;
var domain = (4 < argc) ? argv[4] : null;
var secure = (5 < argc) ? argv[5] : false;
document.cookie = name + "=" + escape (value) +
((expires == null) ? "" : ("; expires=" + expires.toGMTString())) +
((path == null) ? "" : ("; path=" + path)) +
((domain == null) ? "" : ("; domain=" + domain)) +
((secure == true) ? "; secure" : "");
}
function DisplayInfo() {
var expdate = new Date();
var visit;
expdate.setTime(expdate.getTime() + (24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 * 365));
if(!(visit = GetCookie("visit")))
visit = 0;
visit++;
SetCookie("visit", visit, expdate, "/", ".sports-central.org", false);
var message;
if(visit == 1)
popup()
}
/////////////editable part///////////////////////////////////////
function popup(){
window.open('http://www.sports-central.org/popup.shtml','win1','width=400,height=350,resizable')
}
/////////////editable part///////////////////////////////////////
//-->
'
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gavin681 posted this at 00:58 — 4th May 2002.
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mjames... Thanks for the code. Unfortunately it's not working on my site. I'm just a copy and paste coder so I have no idea what I'm doing. Anyway you might be able to surf on over to my home page and see what I did wrong? It would be most appreciated. http://www.fast-sites.net
Gavin Knowles
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mjames posted this at 03:51 — 5th May 2002.
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You have to make sure you edit the editable part at the bottom of that code. Create a .html file (or .html, whatever you want) and that's where you link to your popup window. You can control the height and width through this, too. Then, create a popup.js file and paste the code above in it. On your pages, put this code in your header:
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://www.fast-sites.net/popup.js"></script>'Marc James - marc@sports-central.org
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