A floating layer, combined with Javascript, for messages and Advertising
Sometimes the submission of a Web form could cause a waiting period for your user and that could cause also some frustration, if your customer waits too long without knowing, what in detail your server is doing right now.
The best and easiest way to keep the customers “on hold” while your server gathers all the information, is a floating layer. Layers can be “small webpages” within a webpage, if you like and to put it “roughly”.
Now your surfer lands on the web form and presses the submit button… that lets the former hidden layer appear and shows a message, that was already there, but hidden…
As an example I gathered all the infos you need in an example:
You may comment here, if you have questions about it.
February 28th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
that, my dear, brought me to your site! great stuff you have here… maybe a bit complicated for us non-tekkies! but the javascript stuff works fine on my site now. thx a lot!
marly
March 1st, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Hello, What I was hoping to find is a “floating layer note” like post it note within a website or portal. This is the thing that I am interested in right now. Could you direct me to the source?
All best,
Bill F
March 1st, 2006 at 8:00 pm
bill, can you code a little bit in Javascript? Most of you have in mind is already covered by Ralfs example… all you would need to do is to toggle the visibility of the layer right from the beginning!
otherwise: http://www.hotscripts.com/ - look there under the javascript collections. they have a lot of tailor made stuff!