The industry seems to be divided on whether popups are a good idea. I suspect this is because they have been misused and abused by some sites. This has lead to the creation of popup blockers.

In our case we decided to use a popup (written using jQuery) but to restrict it (using a cookie) to make sure that it does not reappear for a site visitor for 20 days. In other words, if a new visitor came to billyfire.com today, and then visited every day for the next 20 days, the popup would not reappear until the 20th day.

I believe the value in the popup is to be able to relate specific information that you want a site visitor to focus on. If the visitor is not interested he can easily remove the popup and it won’t reappear (at least, not be 20 days).

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One thing to bear in mind is that background images will not appear in print unless the user has the ‘show background’ image option set on their browser. In other words, say you had a logo that you wish to appear on screen and in print, you will need to put the image in the Web page as opposed to including it as a background image for a style.

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Technical tip of the day – print style sheets

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