Redirection Screen

[bfkd]

Cheers,

I don’t have any experience with JS, so I have to ask you, guys.
First I want to say sorry for my bad written english.

I’m working as affiliate publisher in the fashion business and some of my users asked me, if I can develop a kind of ‘redirection’ to the destination site.

What I thought:

Version1
A preloader before you get onto the other site with a short notice that the user is leaving my site and getting redirected to the store. Maybe a short ‘thank you’ notice also.

Is there any script out there?
Or do I have to code it by myself?

Version2
A simple JS popup after clicking the “order”-button, in this popup I gonna write down all the information and a button with “ordering at….”

I guess this is the easiest way, but I don’t know if this is the smartest way.

Do you have any suggestion!?

Thanks a lot!

[shaneisme]

Well, not seeing any code it’s hard to say.

If you want to do a JS redirect, it’s pretty easy to do. You can even redirect after a few seconds if you wanted.

Of course, the best ‘redirect’ is to just make a link! If someone was asking me to do this I’d just reply that when someone is clicking on a link or a button, they know they’re going somewhere else… just let them go.

[bfkd]

Hey shaneisme,

you’re right and thanks for your advice.
Also thanks for the two useful threads with specific information.

Some user are irritated, because they think I’m the online-shop and not an affiliate.

Do you think it’s smarter to use fancybox for the information instead of a redirect script?

Thanks!

[shaneisme]

Hmmm… typically speaking if people are confused it’s a problem with design. I’d work on that first honestly.

But to answer you directly, I always err against using any sort of popup. Unless someone wants to view a larger image or video it’s annoying. You could do something simple like a hover tooltip instead, that might be a good compromise.

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