popup information box?

[Mcmar]

How can i make like a squary pop up information box.. Then soon as it pops up, you can click anywhere in the site, then it hides the box, and caches like it wont popup on next visit?



Preview of what i mean:
http://i.imgur.com/3SUSD.jpg

How? Then soon as you click anywhere around it or on the X it caches, that it will NOT Popup on next time you visit it.

 

[Shan]

What you're talking about is a jQuery lightbox.

They're "quite" hard to make so you'll have to buy one (which aren't that expensive). I'd suggest going to codecanyon and looking around.

What I've used in the past is;

http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-lightbox-evolution/115655

DEMO: http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-lightbox-evolution/full_screen_preview/115655

It's good to use and it's cheap. However, every time you open the website it will popup (unless you set it as popup on click), which then you're going to have to use cookies to make sure its stays.

 

[Lautaro]

I purchased that lightbox evolution from codecanyon long time ago, and used it in rcupload.com when it had the old design. It's very easy to use and flexible.

BTW, you can also use free ones:
http://www.shadowbox-js.com/
http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/

as long as you don't re-distribute them you can always integrate it in your website.

 

[Mcmar]

I purchased that lightbox evolution from codecanyon long time ago, and used it in rcupload.com when it had the old design. It's very easy to use and flexible.

BTW, you can also use free ones:
http://www.shadowbox-js.com/
http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/

as long as you don't re-distribute them you can always integrate it in your website.

http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-l...humb&WT.seg_1=search_thumb&WT.z_author=jakie8

I saw this one, it looks great. But i have no idea how to work out with it, like like it caches it, like it wont popup on next visit :/

 

[Shan]

http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-l...humb&WT.seg_1=search_thumb&WT.z_author=jakie8

I saw this one, it looks great. But i have no idea how to work out with it, like like it caches it, like it wont popup on next visit :/

Cookies are the words you are talking about.

What it simply does, is popup on the first time you visit.

How I suggest you do it, is have a button at the bottom that says "Don't show this again". So it's much easier to work with cookies. However, unless they click "dont show this again" they'll still see the popup even though they clicked out of it.

However, to write the code I've have to look into as I've only used it to skip a splash page.

 

[Lautaro]

you can display the popup and add a cookie with the timestamp + X hours when you displayed it. then check, if the timestamp value is lower than the current time then you display the popup again and set the new value to the cookie.

 

[dotch]

If you don't care about a fancy lightbox, you can create a popup in minutes using this popup activation code genearator: http://www.javascriptkit.com/popwin/index.shtml

Just create a HTML or PHP popup file and put the activation code in the viewer.php file, or where ever you want it. You can choose several time intervals:
1) Every time page loads
2) Only ONCE per browser session
3) Only ONCE per specified period

To change the dimensions of the pop up to an explicit width and height, change the code: width=,height=

I'm using this code on 2 websites and it works great. You can even link a sub-domain to the pop-up, like info.mydomain.com or free.mydomain.com