No future for pop-ups?
It used to be a great way to get attention - when a visitor comes to your site, pop up a new window on top of the page that highlights some special information.
Some people had to overdo it though, plastering the screen with pop-up windows and driving the visitor crazy. Pop ups have become associated with dodgy sites and spamming. So firewall and virus checking software started to provide blocking software which stopped the popups. These days Google and Yahoo toolbars come with pop up blockers and Internet Explorer 7 comes with a blocker set up by default to block popups.
So is the pop up dead? (more…)
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30th September 2007 | Posted in web design
