hi all - trying to set welcome page to do a timed redirect to the home page - is it possible to do this as a smooth fade? thanks, Rolf in MA
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First, I don’t recommend you ever redirect your home page, as it will destroy your search engine ranking. Second, I’m not sure if you can use Transition FX in Express, but try adding an element contaning your welcome message to your home page that you set to fade away after some time, uncovering your home page.
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hi all - trying to set welcome page to do a timed redirect to the home page - is it possible to do this as a smooth fade? thanks, Rolf in MA
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I am trying this with Target show/hide layer action. Trouble is it looks much different on all the browsers on a PC except Safari, FF is terrible - jerky and blacks out in transition. I am curious what anyone here might find objectionable to on a Mac where it works well.
Frank H.
THANKS!
On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:
First, I don’t recommend you ever redirect your home page, as it will destroy your search engine ranking. Second, I’m not sure if you can use Transition FX in Express, but try adding an element contaning your welcome message to your home page that you set to fade away after some time, uncovering your home page.
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hi all - trying to set welcome page to do a timed redirect to the home page - is it possible to do this as a smooth fade? thanks, Rolf in MA
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thanks Walter - I see Transition FX in Pro (cool!), but not in Express - since this is a site built for the client to manage herself in Express, I don’t have that option - also, this would mean that every time we navigated to her Home page, the Welcome image would reappear and then fade, correct? is there any way to have that happen just once per site visit? or is the technology beyond us? I understand the value of Home page not re-directing - would it make sense to link people to a Welcome page that was NOT index.html, and have it redirect to her actual Home page after a brief delay? - thanks again, - Rolf
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you’re right, that Alchemy thing works great in Safari, kind of jerky in Firefox - but nice site - and that IS the effect I’m going for - will experiment w/ Target settings 
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I whole heartedly agree with Walter on this one. It really is not doing your client any favours to have a redirect.
If you go down the route of having an image that fades out to reveal the home page content then that might be acceptable but only if it doesn’t happen every time the visitor returns to that page.
For a non repeating fading image you would be best to use a cookie such as at http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/other/cookiepage.html
This will need hand coding in Express though.
David
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Hi Dave,
Thanks so much. That is one strong cookie! I would delete it and empty the cache and still not be able to reveal the code again. I’ll take a look at your source and get hopelessly lost. : )
Not knowing how the sequence timer works I guess I question whether that would work for this situation with target show/hide layer. Perhaps a bypass cookie or button…
As always, really appreciate your comments and suggestions.
Frank H.
On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:42 PM, DeltaDave email@hidden wrote:
I whole heartedly agree with Walter on this one. It really is not doing your client any favours to have a redirect.
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In your case Frank you add a class of cookiehider to the Div that you only want to appear once Item>Extended.
Add Protaculous to your Page (choose Protype-Packed) and paste the following code in the Top Function Body selector
jar = new CookieJar({
expires: '',
path: '/'
});
if(!jar.get('sawit')){
jar.put('sawit',true);
}else{
$$('.cookiehider').invoke('hide');
}
Then reference the cookiejar.js file in the Page>Html Markup>Before End Head section of your page using once you have uploaded the cookiejar.js file to your server. You can get cookiejar.js from http://www.deltadesign.co/_oddscripts/cookiejar.js
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.yoursite.com/cookiejar.js"></script>
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Thanks again Dave,
I think I have this as you instructed:
On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:28 AM, DeltaDave email@hidden wrote:
In your case Frank you add a class of cookiehider to the Div that you only want to appear once Item>Extended.
Add Protaculous to your Page (choose Protype-Packed) and paste the following code in the Top Function Body selector
jar = new CookieJar({ expires: '', path: '/' }); if(!jar.get('sawit')){ jar.put('sawit',true); }else{ $$('.cookiehider').invoke('hide'); }
Easy enough, left out the ˜˜˜˜ correct?
Then reference the cookiejar.js file in the Page>Html Markup>Before End Head section of your page using once you have uploaded the cookiejar.js file to your server. You can get cookiejar.js from http://www.deltadesign.co/_oddscripts/cookiejar.jsDavid
Copied the js from the page into Text Wrangler and made a test file, changed the name to cookie jar.js which I placed in the alchemy file on the server. The reference in the page markup as instructed is:
After a publish/save/upload I didn’t see a change, and I know your going to tell me I am lacking a class thing (but of course : ) - I read Walters essay on this in the forum: http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/69661#m_69679
but I am still unsure - 1) If this is what the Action ‘Add Selector’ is for, 2) True; this would be a div 3) Id would be the item name and I have no clue about class.
Sooooo, am I getting any closer?
Thanks in advance for your time.
Frank H.
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OK - I am looking and I think your Div that fades out is called BigBkgrnd. If that is the case then select that item in the FW sidebar after you have clicked from Site to Page view (so that you can see all items on your page)
Select the BigBkgrnd Div then from the Item Menu choose Extended
In the dialogue box that opens click New and then add the name/value pair of class/cookiehider - OK that and it will look like
OK again and upload.
D
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