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Pop-up coupons .....

Feb 6, 2006 3:36AM PST

I want to have a pop-up coupon on my website (and mine alone) that will open when a potential client goes to a certain page. Anyone know who to talk to about this? Thanks

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Not me. I disable such in my browser.
Feb 6, 2006 4:00AM PST

I would never see your popup.

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R. Proffitt is right BUT...
Feb 6, 2006 8:16AM PST
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Why not
Feb 6, 2006 10:22PM PST

Why not add the coupon to your webpage. I would never see it. I use different pop up blockers. Pop up ads are very annoying.

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good idea...
Feb 7, 2006 2:10AM PST

...but the powers that be want it to open when you hit a link to a certain page only. They want it printable so they go to a certain person(s) or department.

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For internal sites, that works...
Feb 7, 2006 2:28AM PST

Because your IT staff will configure the browswer to allow it.

To popup when you hit a link is straight HTML. If I look at www.w3c.org and read about this finds...

"
To open a link within a new window, place TARGET="_blank" within your link code.

<A HREF="http://www.domain.com/" TARGET="_blank">Your Coupon</a>

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