Could anyone assist me in trying to create a small window appear to let visitors to my site know that anything they order won’t be shipped until a certain day, or some such message. Holidays approach!
The idea would be that which ever page a visitor landed on, not only the home page as other sites link into various pages, a discreet window would open to let them know they won’t be getting stuff for a week or two. I’m minded of the endless ‘Would you like to take a survey’ type windows that proliferate our browsing experience currently and imagine I’m hankering after some such thing like that.
I foresee a problem whereby if I apply an action to each of my pages the visitor would soon retreat if they are bombarded with the message each time they viewed a new page so would hope there might be a solution that would remember that visitor and only show the message once, whichever page they visited first. I would reiterate it on the checkout page.
I’m aware of the Popup Window action but am fearful that many of us set our browsers by default to block popup windows and would therefore fail to see the message.
Many thanks in advance for whatever help I might get.
I foresee a problem whereby if I apply an action to each of my pages the visitor would soon retreat if they are bombarded with the message each time they viewed a new page so would hope there might be a solution that would remember that visitor and only show the message once
Thanks for your reply David, once someone has held my hand and walked me through how to implement it on my site I’m sure it will prove an ideal solution. Anyone?
However, how would you (or others) suggest I get round the blocking popup problem. I’m sure there must be a more elegant method to employ other then a popup but I’ll be dashed if I know what it is.
David. Our company ships products same or next business day and have the same concerns you do. Our solution for closed business days is to change our header section on every web page to include a prominent indication of when shipping will resume. No popups to worry about. It’s not elegant, but important to us. It’s easy to implement because we are using the same Freeway master page on every page that matters, so we only need to change it in one place. Other than that, we place a blurb in the beginning of the checkout process stating as such and also in the confirmations after order is placed. The last two are just “we told you so” to cover ourselves. Maybe something similar could work for you.
@ cosjr
Thanks, this is probably the route I will follow given my time constraints.
@DeltaDave
Thanks for your help too David, unfortunately I didn’t quite follow your gist but I’m sure this will be the ideal solution. Maybe while I’m on holiday I’ll study and have it ready and waiting for the next time I’m away from the store.
One thing; stupidly I didn’t have the nouse to copy the code on your example page before I refreshed to see what would happen and, hey presto it wasn’t there! In my naivety I expected the bunny image to be the item that didn’t show on revisiting. Hey Ho. I did grab it from another browser so have it for future use, Thanks.
DeltaDave’s solution is perfect and valid. The reason I mentioned the alternative is that our experience with site visitors is one popup warning that disappears is not enough. You’d think they would heed the warning, but very often do not and we end up with grumpy customer calls. For us it’s better to be there constant until a few days after shipping resumes.
