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Submit Your Site For Review Need a fresh set of eyeballs to take a look at your site? Have a specific issue or question about some aspect of your layout, design or interface? This is the forum for you. When submitting your site, be sure to discuss what aspect you are looking for input on. Just posting a link with the word 'review' isn't appropriate.

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Old 02-11-2004, 03:19 PM
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Let me know what you guys think of the site that i just did. Check it out www.auto-vac.com

any ideas or thoughts?
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Old 02-11-2004, 04:53 PM
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You have a nice looking site. I run on a T-3 connection with IE 6 as my browser. For some reason, the sites main page loads the flash right after the header and stops loading all the other images. I had to right click and select load image to get any images to load up. The other pages seemed to load all images fine. I have never seen that happen in anything I have done with Flash, so hopefully if someone else has the same problem, they may have an idea why it is happening.

I am not an advocate of coming soon pages. My thought is if you don't have anything for that page, then either don't post the site or remove the link until you do have something to send the viewer to.

On the main page, you have your body copy all the way at the bottom of the page. It should be moved up directly under the Flash so the bots and spiders rate your content keywords more highly.

The calculation tool is a nice touch. Keep in mind that most major ISP's provide pop-up blockers so you are losing a lot of traffic through the show special window since you don't have the offer on the main page. Also, you might want to set-up a cookie to retard the pop-up so for those that do get it, they don't get it EVERY SINGLE TIME they go to the main page.

Good job. Best of luck.
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Old 02-12-2004, 12:02 AM
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Thanks for the good feedback. I am looking into setting a cookie for the pop-up idea. If you know of anywhere that has a good tutorial on cookies I'd appreciate it. Thanks
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Old 02-12-2004, 09:43 AM
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Into your head tag:

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Originally Posted by Add in between head tags
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

<!-- Begin
var expDays = 1; // number of days the cookie should last

var page = "only-popup-once.html";
var windowprops = "width=300,height=200,location=no,toolbar=no,menub ar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes";

function GetCookie (name) {
var arg = name + "=";
var alen = arg.length;
var clen = document.cookie.length;
var i = 0;
while (i < clen) {
var j = i + alen;
if (document.cookie.substring(i, j) == arg)
return getCookieVal (j);
i = document.cookie.indexOf(" ", i) + 1;
if (i == 0) break;
}
return null;
}
function SetCookie (name, value) {
var argv = SetCookie.arguments;
var argc = SetCookie.arguments.length;
var expires = (argc > 2) ? argv[2] : null;
var path = (argc > 3) ? argv[3] : null;
var domain = (argc > 4) ? argv[4] : null;
var secure = (argc > 5) ? argv[5] : false;
document.cookie = name + "=" + escape (value) +
((expires == null) ? "" : ("; expires=" + expires.toGMTString())) +
((path == null) ? "" : ("; path=" + path)) +
((domain == null) ? "" : ("; domain=" + domain)) +
((secure == true) ? "; secure" : "");
}
function DeleteCookie (name) {
var exp = new Date();
exp.setTime (exp.getTime() - 1);
var cval = GetCookie (name);
document.cookie = name + "=" + cval + "; expires=" + exp.toGMTString();
}
var exp = new Date();
exp.setTime(exp.getTime() + (expDays*24*60*60*1000));
function amt(){
var count = GetCookie('count')
if(count == null) {
SetCookie('count','1')
return 1
}
else {
var newcount = parseInt(count) + 1;
DeleteCookie('count')
SetCookie('count',newcount,exp)
return count
}
}
function getCookieVal(offset) {
var endstr = document.cookie.indexOf (";", offset);
if (endstr == -1)
endstr = document.cookie.length;
return unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, endstr));
}

function checkCount() {
var count = GetCookie('count');
if (count == null) {
count=1;
SetCookie('count', count, exp);

window.open(page, "", windowprops);

}
else {
count++;
SetCookie('count', count, exp);
}
}
// End -->
</script>
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OnLoad="checkCount()"

Note the expDays="" variable at the top of the script. Say that you set this to "4", if someone goes to your site on Monday and everyday after that, the pop-up will only show on Monday and Saturday. The cookie will tell the script not to pop the window for 4 days.

Change the page variables below that and you should be good to go.
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