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    Posted: 09 May 2003 at 8:21am
I am designing a page in Dreamweaver that incorporates the Open Browser Window behaviour when the page is loaded to notify users of special information.  Is there a way to ONLY show this window when the user first comes to page and not subsequently in the same session do that it doesn't become irritating?  Would love any advice.
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Points: 9844 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 May 2003 at 8:31am

Use cookies, but don't set an expitry date (session cookie) that way the cookie remains till 20 minutes after the user leaves the site.

All you need to do then is see if the cookie is on the users machine or not, if it is then don't display the pop up.
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Points: 1701 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 May 2003 at 12:32pm

Personally, I really really hate popups. I think they are just an all-round evil annoyance best reserverd for free porn sites.

Try this, get the overlib script from http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/, set it to display itself somewhere on the screen and then use a cookie to decide whether it gets displayed or not. This is an infinitely sexier solution than another lame popup. But don't forget to check for browsers that don't support it.

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Points: 846 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 May 2003 at 3:16am

Theres a new popup program which overtook Overlib.  Its called JWIN - more powerful, more features, better code.

Site: http://www.matunuck.com/jwin/main.asp

Email List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jwin/

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Points: 14 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 May 2003 at 2:55am
thanks for this, I will try these suggestions
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