Website Attention Generating Software Options
There are a number of software options available for highlighting particular products, third party websites, or specials to the visitors who come to your site. In the early days of the world wide web, banner ads were the popular choice. This quickly led to banner blindness with most websurfers.
To save the day came the first generation of popup software. These worked by invoking a framed browser session either behind or over the webpage that your visitor was busy reading! Unsurprisingly, most people found these pretty annoying, and the counter-attack came from popup-blockers, which soon became commonly installed on browser toolbars and the most popular browsers.
Then a new generation of dhtml popups came of age. Instead of opening a fresh browser window, these would overlay a popup note, hover ad, or fly-in ad within your existing browser session. They are less irritating and much harder for popup blockers to detect and zap. They also come in many varieties: from post-it note popups designs, to fade-in lightbox overlays, to slide in and fly-in windows. They can be attractive to the eye as well as very versatile, allowing you to embed optin forms, audio snippets, or a video right into the popover.
Software continues to progress of course, and the latest generation of attention generating programs allow you to add peel ads to the corners of your webpages. These are far less intrusive than even the latest evolution of popups, and yet they obtain a good response rate from visitors. An example of a peel away ad can be seen on the following page about real estate investor Hans Jakobi, advertising the Success University website.
There are several webpage peel ad creator programs on the market. Some are better than others. The more rudimentary scripts only allow you to display a small 500 by 500px peel, and when clicked, they open a new browser window by default.
The more advanced scripts allow you to select between 500 by 500px and larger 600 by 800px ads, allow you to select whether they will open a new browser window or not, and will allow you to place scrolling text over both your small animated peel as well as your large peel back image. The most affordable one on the market which has all of these advanced features is PeelAwayAds.net v2. At only $17, it is actually a package of four scripts. One for 500 by 500px peelaway ads, one for rotating and split testing your peelaway ads, one for affiliate promotion, and the version 2 script for the 600 by 800px peel ads with scrolling overlay text options.
