Some clients I have may want a popup when a user visits the site if they have special events going on, and display maybe a flyer in a popup.
How can I force a popup upon a user visiting the site? Is there a module that can accomplish this? If not, what kind of edits am I looking at doing?
You are looking for Splashify module, it also have the option to popup on any page.
Display a splash page anywhere on your site by redirecting the user, showing a lightbox, or displaying a popup. This module is designed to be search engine friendly, mobile device friendly and offers multiple configuration options.
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You can try TinyBox (Simple Splash). see the demo
The main purpose of this module is to provide Splash Screen/Window as simple as possible.
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take a look at Splash Offer module
Allows the management of one or more "splash offers", which are modal popups with an accept or reject form. If a user accepts the offer then a new page will open with a provided accept url. If they reject the offer, the modal will close.
To make this more maintainable I would load some jquery that just targets a particular piece of content via selector and uses ui.dialog.
I would write it in the template files with a cookie; it is not pretty, but it gets it done.
For example, in every page.tpl.php
Creating a custom action/trigger. On front page content view, load the flyer/event page in a lightbox (or shadowbox) popup, and redirect them to an alternate front page that doesn't set off that trigger.
