Trigger a Lightbox Web Form With a Link or Button

Posted by Marc Kline – A Weber

A lightbox is one way you can grab your visitors’ attention – it appears above your web page and shades everything else out.

We (A Weber) offer the lightbox as an option in our Web Form Generator. Once a page loads, the form installed on it appears above it. For some, this is great – a way to really catch the visitor off-guard with an offer to sign up for your email marketing campaign.

This insert and the examples of Lightboxes are from Dave Cane – Find Net Solutions

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...  Hotel Club Deals and Rates to Go Deals are examples of websites that use our inexpensive, professional option of I Frame technology. The I Frame website instantly mirrors the Main website, (in this case Hotel Club and Rates to Go) while using the I Frame’s domain name, URL, title, description, keywords and key phrases, ideal for B2B programs , Internet Marketing campaigns and collecting names and email addresses for newsletters and promotions.

The two I Frame websites Hotel Club Deals and Rates to Go Deals also use light

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box name capture forms, an option of A Weber email marketing programs. The light box acts like a Pop up and the great news is the lightbox is not effected by Pop Up Blockers. A Weber Lightbox forms can be set on a timer delay to display a pre determined number of seconds after the website displays. You can also determine the frequency the Light Box form will appear to a visitor, every time they visit or once a day etc….

Well, one man’s treasure is another man’s “annoying pop-up”. Some just don’t like them and there’s no convincing. They don’t want something that appears unexpectedly.

Does this describe you? Then I wonder how you might feel about a lightbox that appears only when a visitor does expect it – and asks for it.

An Alternative to the Automatic Pop-Up

When we (A Weber) recently re-did the Web Form Generator, the project’s lead developer, Dan, unsurfaced a neat option. By copying and pasting in some JavaScript above your form, you can set a button or link to trigger the loading of a lightbox, thereby preventing some of the possible pains of pop-ups while preserving a lot of the good stuff.

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