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Hi all

Further to my previous post (loosely disguised as a question), see here, Part 1 I have been playing around with creating a custom 'soft' landing page.

When you first visit the site My Realty Questions you will see a landing page with the ability to ask a question directly from this page. I will add more content to this such as a how to video / screen cast, add blog posts etc, latest questions, just generally make it more engaging.

The user is able to show or hide this info page at any time and a cookie remembers their setting. This page well, div is hidden from all other pages.

Still a lot more to do but I will carry on in the morning and see where I get to with it tomorrow.

Cheers

Jonathan

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 Nice work. (The full page of orange is a bit scary, but I assume you're going to fill that in with something). Are you considering sharing your code for this with the rest of the community? – Scott W. Oct 11 at 12:15
absolutely - please email me at jonathan@crowdpeople.com and I'll be happy to share once I have ironed out all the issues and commented the code – Jonathan Lyon Oct 11 at 15:19
Uh, that is actually really useful. If you don't mind I might email you too? My rather non-technical nature with css makes these kinds of changes rather impossible own my knowledge. Cheers. – Bias Oct 11 at 15:29
not at all - please email me and add SE Code to the subject header. – Jonathan Lyon Oct 11 at 15:30
Are you going to make it fail gracefully when the user doesn't have cookies or javascript enabled? For instance, I run with the NoScript add-in on Firefox. – Scott W. Oct 11 at 15:51
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I've added something similar to Petnibs.com. There's a question field at the top of all pages that posts to the ask question page.

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Then I have some extra javascript in the Question Help field to handle it. Displaying related questions on load seems to lag a bit on the SE server side.

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I like the image you posted, but I am unable to see that on your site currently. I'm using Chrome and Firefox on WinXP and behind a rather nasty corporate firewall. I can see snippetgood, moms4mom etc without issue. This is what I see: robspages.net/opieweb/petnibs.jpg – Rob Allen Oct 15 at 16:39
Doh, I think I'm going to have to move my image hosting over to another server. *.shackspace.com seems to be on many block lists. I have a server at home that doesn't bring up those images either. – iamgoat Oct 15 at 17:18
I have a reseller account with HostingZoom that has served me well. I think its $14 a month and I can partition it as many times and with as many domains as I want. I'm using that for OPIEWeb's non SE content. – Rob Allen Oct 15 at 17:27
Rob, thanks for the offer. I jumped the gun and moved everything to Amazon S3, crazy how easy it is. – iamgoat Oct 15 at 17:41
Looks great iamgoat. Can you share your scripts and edits? Thanks – Rob Allen Oct 15 at 19:19
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Can you make the huge popup appear when you click the "Ask a Question" button?

Dim down everything else and letting you add the title?

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