Trying Out Article Marketing for WOWPopUp.com
Now, I’ve heard a lot about using articles to promote your site. I have to confess that I haven’t been doing this much. Only a few months ago when I submitted an article about Adwords.
And just now, I submitted an article with the objective of promoting WOW Pop-Up. WOW Pop-Up is where I giveaway from code and graphics to the photorealistic post-it pop-ups. I am still submitting this manually and I manage to cover the following sites:
And I also tried out iSnare … where you can get your articles submitted to 20,000 publishers for just $10.
Since my article is still in the reviewing process, we’ll wait for a few days to see how things are doing with this. I am really to see if I can bring in a lot of fresh traffic, and increase the number of members in WOWPopUp.com
In case you want to read my article, it’s down here.
How to Create Photorealistic Post-It Pop-Up
Have you seen one of those post-it pop-up? The one that
looks so realistic, with awesome shadow effect. If you
don’t know what I am talking about, try opening the
following website:http://myhobbybooks.com/wowpop
They look awesome don’t they?
And something like this is always good for your web
marketing campaign. One reason, it never gets blocked
by pop-up blockers. And another, it really grabs the
attention of your web visitors.This is good when you want to increase subscription
rate to your ezine, or promote an affiliate program,
or even increase sales.But you wonder, how do they do it? You thought that you
can achieve similar result, and you try, and try, and
try … you tried GIF image, JPG image, none of those
can get the job done.But there’s one thing that you just don’t know. Many
pro web programmers know this, but not the normal web
designers … maybe even most web designers don’t know
how to do this.The secret is in PNG image format.
PNG image format is the little-known image format that
you can use on the web. PNG image format is unique
because you can do the Alpha effect with it. The Alpha
effect is where you set transparency factor on certain
areas on the PNG image. That is what makes the shadow
looks so real.With the Alpha effect, you can set transparency factor
from 0% to 100%. So it can be 30% transparent, 50% or
even 79%. Have a look at the pop-up again, and take a
close look at the shadow - Now you know how it’s done.But there is just one problem - Internet Explorer don’t
really support PNG image format. While you can still
call PNG image format using the IMG tag, Internet
Explorer ignores Alpha factor. In Internet Explorer,
PNG image just don’t appear properly.So how do we solve this …
Luckily you can still call PNG image in Internet
Explorer and have the Alpha reflected using a special
CSS command. It’s the AlphaImageLoader().But this will lead to another problem. Before you can
call the PNG image, you first need to identify the
browser your web visitor is using. If the visitor is
using Firefox, Opera, Netscape or any others, you can
call the PNG using the IMG tag. But if it’s Internet
Explorer, you need to use the AlphaImageLoader().And of course, this can always be solved with a bit of
Javascripting. And with a little more Javascript and
CSS, you can have the PNG image floating over your web
content. You can even make the pop-up disappear using
the OnClick event trigger.If you’d like a complete code and PNG image to your own
photorealistic post-it pop-up, try visiting WOW Pop-Up.
Below is the URL address for WOW Pop-Up where you can
get a free set of the code and the PNG graphic.Iszuddin Ismail published the WOW Pop-Up and is giving
away free code and PNG graphics to your own
photorealistic post-it pop-up. Get a set of four PNG
pop-up graphics for free.
http://WOWPopUp.com
