This is the blog of Advanced DHTML Popup and its sister sites including The WordPress Popup System. Here we track and provide examples of all the developments we make in rich media content (largely Flash Video) embedding in websites and wordpress blogs.

Our most recent release is the WordPress Plugin for DHTML popupssee here. The plugin comes with a set of templates loaded with default values, these can act as starting points and modified by the settings in the options page. They include standard uses such as an Aweber & GetResponse optin forms.

Also recently released is our powerful & lightweight flash video player. This player is focussed on the web and blog developer that is serious about using video, including multiple videos, since it is solves completely the problem of bandwidth overload with an option to override automatic video stream buffering. But this is only the start, affliliate links, redirection, running script at the end of play, auto-close, auto-scroll etc etc. See the blog post here.

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Introducing:
“The WordPress Popup System”

Easily and in minutes of installation embed customizable and unblockable DHTML popup windows and Exit Popups into your WordPress Blog. These are the same windows as seen here and as new versions are rapidly released (upgrades are free) will become every bit as powerful.

But this is not just a simple one page or post popup window creator, this is a system with many remarkable features. With this plugin you can create as many DHTML popup windows as desired, the settings for each of them are stored automatically in the database and can be called up and changed at any time.

A set of templates provides a starting point, including the now industry standard Aweber and GetResponse optin forms, and many more to come.
You can embed videos (including YouTube, Transparent Flash etc), images and any content desired.

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A demo using the video plugin of ADP in wordpress – see here for instructions (and in the knowledgebase)

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Footer Ads are the new breed of popup which are taking the internet marketing world by storm. The popularity of this type of popup over the traditional is ten-fold and in this article we will explain a little bit about why.

Pop-ups have been here a while now and are normally associated with annoying unwanted guests which normally result in deterring a visitor from the website rather than enticing them into viewing further. So you may be asking what’s different about the footer ads or any DHTML based ads? For a start they are discreet and un-blockable by popup blockers.
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To put an exit popup on any wordpress blog post is easy with the WordPress Popup System. Not only any post or page (including the home page) but also any number of posts you choose, including all posts with certain exceptions, or only the home page etc.

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In this demo an image taken from the overlay images plugin for Advanced DHTML Popup is used and the modal option selected as well as the exit option. The WordPress plugin is being used in its Pro mode.
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A simple demo using Advanced DHTML Popup Pro and the WordPress Popup Plugin in its Pro mode to produce the lightbox effect with a custom image overlaying the popup (in this example the image is taken from the overlay images plugin of ADP).

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Due to huge demand and the complexity of designing the HTML and CSS yourself, we outsourced this design to a Professional website design service and created a series of beautiful footer ads with an optional optin form inside.
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We are happy to release a version of ADP Pro which at last begins to cover the multiple layers aspect from within the application, instead of users having to manually edit and configure the generated files themselves.
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The newly released Version 3.10 of the The Transparent Flash Player now supports not only video content hosted by the Transparent Player but also user defined Custom content and YouTube videos also.
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Welcome to Version 3.0+ of the The Transparent Flash Player – a huge step forward from Version 2.0 and far easier to implement in Joomla and WordPress.
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Version 2.49 of ADP Pro has been quite exciting – although on the surface it appears that only a few things have changed,
the reality is that the extensive core changes have made a lot of difference to users, especially those using it for multiple layers
on a page, or dynamically changing a single layer.

The new API extensions (adpPlace(), adpTitle(), adpScroll()) and the
dynamic updating of the positions of multiple layers with browser resizing have helped a lot of projects so far.

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This latest development push has taken the player to a completely new level of sophistication. It has already become one of the most
well known and useful players, but with this release it is set to completely revolutionize the way video is displayed on web pages.

Below is a list of some of the new enhancements in version 3.0 – see earlier entries for all the features.

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All configuration done from single config file containing all videos & global variables including direct embedded videos
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Single script line in web page controls everything (plus a css file)
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Remote hosting capabilities extended
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Cookie (show once) function now uid dependent (can be applied to individual videos or all)
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Appear on exit – either multiple exits or multiple videos on single exit
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Multiple simultaneous videos and /or generic content layers, with independent stream-end function calls
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Generic content layers (you design the content)
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Closing one video can now close all optionally
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Modal mask option
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Title & close button options with global color settings
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Extended options for type of window opened with vLink, iLink & on stream end redirect
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Looping of video option
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Keep control bar visible at all times option
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Double the size of the control bar for larger videos/tutorials
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Delay the start of any video by some seconds
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Enhanced dhtml script library with greater API controls for advanced users

Demo of Trigger Player embedded in dhtml using Advanced DHTML Popup and the WordPress Popup Plugin:
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When developing this: DHTML Popup PHP/MySQL images database we wanted a way to indicate that the image was loading (being pulled from the database and downloading to the browser), a very common request.

We only wanted something simple, no graphics going round and round or anything like that, just “Loading…” with the dots cycling from 1-3 while waiting for the image.

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The latest version of the The Transparent Flash Player will be available shortly. Integrated with the modal and exit methods, it is now far easier to use the powerful script that controls the movements of the player in the page and its triggering of other videos.

Announcing the imminent release of a new product ADV-Direct, a purely script & template driven plug & play product for immediate deployment of dhtml based content in your pages.

With one line of script placed in the header the user can then add content via single line calls to the script which contain all common parameters for each of the templates. Advanced configuration can be modified via a simple config file.

Currently templates exist for YouTube, The Transparent Player & Generic (user controlled) content. Methods available are scrolling, modal (lightbox)
effect, on-exit, 9 different locations in the page & more. Multiple layers with different kinds of content can simultaneously co-exist.

This product, begun originally as something for the Macintosh users but available to anyone as a lightweight yet powerful addition
to ADP, will revolutionize the way in which users can add content to web pages. It will be the focus of a strong development drive over
the next few months.

The third of a series of powerful upgrades to Advanced DHTML Popup Pro has been released

This is being released initially to the newsletter subscriber list, to be followed in a few days on the site. It is the third of the recent series of revisions and much of the development is focused on the core script. Major changes are:-

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New CSS code gives flawless scrolling of single & multiple layers in Firefox/Safari/Opera etc (used to be jerky in non-IE browsers)
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Follow page scrolling extended to multiple layers
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Browser resize handling extended to multiple layers in absolute positioning (top-right etc)
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API & CSS extended to include individual title control of multiple layers
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API extended to include dynamic control of absolute positions
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New compile option to automatically stop audio stream when video layer closed

In this post of the transparent flash video player template series
we demonstrate daisy-chaining multiple videos with auto-scrolling down the page from one to the next.
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I was reading some blog article discussing all this about embedding cloaked links and affiliate links the other day and realized that most people just don’t realize how simple this is. Also, the way shown here avoids what I think are messy looking shorturls, or crude methods using simplistic JavaScript to modify what the status bar says.

Maybe in the future I’ll extend it to use a nice little web-interface where the actual and displayed URL’s can be entered, but for now I show the basic thing. When I wrote it I wasn’t concerned about hiding affiliate links, I just needed a way of simplifying and organizing the linking to various examples I have available.
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This is a quick demo of an “overlay image” popup using an image which is custom designed and overlaid on top of the popup itself. A set of beautiful images for this purpose is available – 2 of which are included in ADP Pro – or any user designed image can be used.

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Easily configure player parameters and flashvars from a new form directly into the project. This plugin (requires ADP Pro) makes adding Flash® video including alpha-transparent video into the popup content easy and simple.

It is under rapid development with the first of multiple new templates now completed. Near future releases (available as free upgrades) will include templates for all major players out there, including of course the hugely popular, powerful & lightweight Transparent Player which has its own WordPress Plugin Templates.

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Starting with the release of 2.47 we have been working hard to push Advanced DHTML Popup Pro to a new level altogether at version 2.50. A whole series of additions is planned, including a range of powerful new scripted templates & better engineering of the templates backend to allow easy installation of new ones provided by us, or created by users.

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The second of a series of powerful upgrades to Advanced DHTML Popup Pro has been released. Version 2.48 completes the plugin implementation. Last month we announced the modal script (lightbox effect) is now a real plugin, fully automated. This month the overlay images pack and the video script are both integrated.

But the real bonus is the video plugin, more on that below. More scripted templates, slide-up & slide-out methods and more.

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All the ADP templates use in-line CSS for styling the content, but it is also possible to use both an external file or a CSS style block, such as you
would normally declare in the head section of your page. To do this though requires (thanks to IE’s handling of the dhtml content layer) a trick.
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This popup slides up from the bottom edge on any wordpress blog post. Not only any post or page (including the home page) but also any number of posts you choose, including all posts with certain exceptions, or only the home page etc.

Here it is set to the full width of the browser and to follow page scroll. It could be any dimension, hold any content and slide up to any location in the post.

This function is available in Advanced DHTML Popup Pro Version 2.48, coming in a few days. All upgrades are free, and the price will increase at some point over the next few versions.

This is a freebie given away at the site of Advanced DHTML Popup and is a very easy to implement newscroller.

It is supplied as a template in the standalone version of the The WordPress Popup System.

Here it is shown using the pro-mode of the system.

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The WordPress Popup System comes with some predefined templates.

This one is for an GetResponse optin form, all you have to do in the system is fill out the values given to you by GetResponse, or just replace the entire form code by what they provide you.
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The WordPress Popup System comes with some predefined templates.

This one is for an Aweber optin form, all you have to do in the system is fill out the values given to you by Aweber, or just replace the entire form code by what they provide you.
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Single or multiple image thumbnails embedded into websites and blogs need to be expanded into a larger image when clicked or on mouseover. In this post the simplest example is shown – mouse over the thumbnail below for a larger view in a DHTML popup.
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Josh Anderson is the expert in this, and all things web video related. He offers a very low cost package here which is packed with information.
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In this post of the transparent flash video player template series
we demonstrate daisy-chaining multiple videos.

Each video is set up with its own options for positioning, scrolling, flashvars etc as normal, but in this case when the first video has finished playing the second is automatically triggered to start, and when that finishes the third is started.

In this case the third “video” is in fact an optin form instead, right in the center of the page.

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In this post of the transparent flash video player template series
we demonstrate the use of multiple anchors to attach multiple videos to. See this post for the single anchor case.

Each video has been offset (optionally) from the anchor (made visible deliberately here) by varying amounts in x,y just to show the possibilities.

Most importantly, by starting one video and then starting another, the download (streaming) of the first video is stopped, so that only one video is occupying the bandwidth at any one time. This is a totally unique feature of the transparent flash video player.

Then by going back to the first video the streaming will continue, while that of the second will stop. You can check this easily here by watching the progress bar of the player. In this way, any number of videos of any type can be listed and viewed on one page without ever loading the bandwidth with more than one.

(You may need to clear your browser cache to start over if you have already clicked the links)

The first video is also non-transparent, this video player can show any flash content, and now in Version 2.0 can show high-definition h.264 encoded content.

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In this post of the transparent flash video player template series
we demonstrate the use of an anchor to attach the video to, so that it is always fixed in place, despite not being directly embedded in the post. This anchor allows for an offset in x,y to be specified so that precise positioning can be accomplished.

The anchor takes the form of an id, for example id=”adpAnchor1″ in this example, and can be used in any HTML element, such as a <p>, a <div>, or a table cell etc.

In this example the video shows up automatically, but we could just as easily have a link triggered video instead, as seen in this template if you just stop the video (set to close the dhtml layer as well as the video when stopped in this case) and click the link instead:

 

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This is the simplest DHTML implementation (instead of direct embedding in the post) of the transparent player, shown here via the plugin “The WordPress Popup System” using a template supplied with the player package (V2.0).
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Transparent Flash Video embedding

In this post we have embedded a transparent DHTML layer which contains a video spokesperson. It is attached to the top-right corner, and incorporates a transparent flash video player with some special features, available for sale. Read the rest of this entry »

Using DHTML Popups with Images

One of the most useful areas in which DHTML can help you enhance your website is by expanding your options for incorporating images into your site. In a standard website, images and graphics are static, embedded in the content of the page but with little or no interactive capability, or other flexibilities either. Read the rest of this entry »

Controlling Hover Ad Appearance Through Cookies

Using DHTML hover ads is an excellent way of highlighting important information to the visitors who utilize your website. Depending on your approach, however, you may want your unblockable popup to behave differently. Some sites want ads that pop up and present themselves every single time a site is visited. Other sites are best served by once-only per session unblockable popups. Yet others still are most successful when they occur only once per certain amount of time, or per certain number of visitors (known as probability popups). Read the rest of this entry »

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