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Hi Everyone,

Are you looking for a way to get more sign-ups to your list, or just get more 'clicks' from potential customers on your website? Have you thought about using Footer Ads, or Slide In ads? What are footer and slide up ads you ask? You know those little slide up ads from the bottom (or sides) when you visit a web page.

I have completed my review of Slide-in and Footer Ads scripts. After quite a long time of looking at all of these, I have declared a winner, and found a few good free alternatives (just in case your budget is tight).

You can read my review at my business blog:
http://www.profit-internet.com/slideup-ad-script-honest-reviews.html

Please note, to integrate the winner into XSitePro you will need to set the DOCTYPE to XML Transitional by pasting the following code into your Other Tab->Global Scripts->Before anything else in the file window.


I will be adding an additional review and a comparison chart of each of these soon on my blog.

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-Brett...





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Thanks Master Brett

Thats a really Snazzy Opt in Technique - and sure to catch the eyes of meandering folk.

Definitively be a great improvement to popup opt in forms which really annoy the heck out of me.

This one is non obtrusive and a nice addition to a site

thnks!
dj

Hi All,

Changing the DocType in XSitePro is not recommended.
This may cause XSitePro content to fail!

If I can be of any further help, do let me know.
Ben Fleeson

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Ben Fleeson
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Uh oh,

I think I remember having a conversation similar to this.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20493

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What seems to be forgotten by some, is that a web designer/developer needs to meet the demands of their clients. If the client wants a slide up footer script, we need to give them one. And do it as quickly and inexpensively as possible. If that means changing a DocType to suit our needs, so be it. That is far more efficient (cost effective) that writing our own custom scripts, or buying alternative scripts.

Even though we may change the DocType, it does not mean we do it willy nilly and not thoroughly test the full site to ensure the DocType change did not affect anything else. We changed it, we know we changed, we made sure everything works the way the client wants, after we changed it. they are happy, we are happy.

The biggest service we can offer a client, is to be adaptable to their needs. That means we give them what they need, and make sure it works. If that means adjusting some preformatted code, so be it.

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Myles
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Creative Compulsions | Winnipeg Web Design
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Myles,



Are you listening JKing? I'm about to review your Content SlideShow, I hope I find that the Javascript source size has been reduced. I see it has not from your recent update.

Another thing forgotten by web designers/developers is that we also need to keep in mind the overall file size of scripts that we add to our website. Google watches file sizes and very large websites are often penalized for that by lower search engine rankings.



Exactly right! Thank you Myles, also I appreciate that you actually read my blog post, understood it, and took action updating OptIn Crusher (free) to allow it to run on a standard website, great work. The size of OptIn Crusher is compatible with Ultimate Footer Ad (UFA). You can read Myles excellent post on updating Opt-In Crusher to run on any website at this page:
http://www.creativecompulsions.com/blog/optincrusher-outside-of-wordpress/

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-Brett...





XSitePro Templates - $297 | XSitePro Membership Sites, XSitePro Shopping Carts, XSitePro Scripts Integration

Hello Brett,

I thought I had posted a message to you yesterday, but must have hit the 'go' button in another dimension! I'll have another go ....................

I took your advice about the Ultimate Footer Ads and bought it. It installed easily enough and was simple to set up. I made the DOC type change and all appeared well. Then I noticed the XSP news scroller widget wasn't working anymore. We use that to display testimonials on our home page so it's rather an important function.

Deleting the DOC type code gets the news scroller working again, so I guess that's probably the culprit. I'd like to have both the slider ads and the news scroller working - any advice on this??

Ron S

Ron,

I have already replied to you, and I have it working on my site using a different slider, which it is likely you will have to do, the News Slider will probably not work with the new DOCTYPE. I've been after Intellimon for quite a long time to start supporting the newer XML standards, but so far they have not indicated that they will. As I said in the other post, it's likely you will have to find another Slider to control News, you can see the post where I reply to you here:
http://www.xsitepro.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20493&start=15

There is no need to post multiple times on this same issue, I can see when you reply to me. You can also read more about this on my Business Blog where I review the Slide Up scripts at this page:
http://www.profit-internet.com/slideup-ad-script-honest-reviews.html

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-Brett...





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He is not really replying multiple times. There are multiple threads on this. He replied to one, then looked again and saw this one. Thought his reply did not get posted (as he replied to the other one) and replied again.

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Myles
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Creative Compulsions | Winnipeg Web Design
Tattoo Winnipeg | Where to get tattoo's in Winnipeg
ShopXSitePro | Seriously unique XSitePro templates

Thanks again Brett ,

Did not realise there were multiple threads on this subject - thought I had 'lost' my earlier query.
I have actually found what I think is a better news scroller ... am in process of testing for compatability with Ultimate Footer Ads (which I do like).

Ron S

Hi Ron,



Please tell me what the website is for it, that way I can include it in my Scroller/Slideshow reviews that are coming up. Glad you're enjoying UFA, I am as well, it sure helps that we can use it now on our XSitePro websites.

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-Brett...





XSitePro Templates - $297 | XSitePro Membership Sites, XSitePro Shopping Carts, XSitePro Scripts Integration

Hello Brett,

Sorry for the delay ... end of year and all that!!

The software I was referring to is WebPageEffects. This is a suite of interesting scripts.
URL is: http://www.JPowered.com

I haven't had much time to check it out yet. The first trial of the Scrolling-Text didn't continue scrolling so I sent off a Support question - which I am still awaiting a reply on. That in itself doesn't bode too well.

If you do have a look at it, I'd be interested to hear your impressions.

Ron S

Hi Ron,

Thanks for the link, they have some nice tools there. The problem is that some of them are Java (and not Javascript). The last time I looked only 85% of people to my website have a Java VM (virtual machine) running on their computer. That means that 15% of your visitors will not be able to see that effect on your website. Keep that in mind.

It's better if you choose Javascript tools, there are some of those on the Jpower.com website, but that one Sliding Text Scroller, is not one of them as it requires Java to run.

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-Brett...





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Good point .... I hadn't realised that. I'll try and get to look at them again sometime today.
Thanks for the input.

Ron S

Brett I read your review unfortunately after i bought slide up fx. It did not work in I.E and I wrote their tech support a week ago and haven't heard anything so I would not recommend buying anything from these folks. Works fine in fire fox which is not good enough. I actually bought Xsite based on your review and I thought it had sliders but after rereading your review it was pop ups.

I noticed on your site you had a pop up that lightboxed (greyed) out the screen and asked for sign up info. How did you do this?

(I'm a complete newbie to Xsite)