Nudger

Reaching users that are actively engaging with sponsored content is a task that only the mighty nudger can help you achieve.

Just scroll to the bottom of this page as if you were reading an intriguing article and the nudger will appear just in time to ask you if you'd like to join a mailing list to receive more related information.

Customization

  • The close button is optional.
  • You can customize the alignment and background color of the nudger to match the layout and color scheme of your web sites.
  • The nudger can easily be made responsive to show appropriately sized ads to desktop/laptop users, tablet users and mobile phone users for a better user experience.
  • This example uses a crawler, but the nudger works with our lightbox, overlay and shoutbox effects as well!

Media Support

  • Graphic banners (GIF/JPG/PNG)
  • Flash banners
  • HTML5 banners
  • Custom HTML banners, including forms with CSS and JavaScript
  • Third-Party banners from agencies and ad networks such as DoubleClick, Google, Sizmek and others

Deployment

Deploying nudgers on your web site couldn't be easier. Our code wizard will generate all of the HTML code for you. All you have to do is copy and paste that code into the bottom of your web page near the </body> tag.

The code wizard also gives you the option to enable the close button and customize the background color of the nudger as well as choose if you want it to open immediately when the user starts scrolling or if they scroll 25%, 50% or 100% of the way down the page.

Recommendations

  • Nudgers are best implemented with 970x90 or 728x90 banners because they offer a lot of creative real estate without taking too much vertical screen space away from your web site and they comply with the Better Ads standards.
  • Tablet users are best served a 728x90 banner, so that should be taken into consideration if you opt for the larger 970x90 banner size for desktop.
  • Smaller sizes such as 300x100, 320x50 or 300x50 can be substituted for mobile phones users, which will improve the usability of your web site on those devices.
  • Add some extra padding to the bottom of your web page with CSS body{ padding-bottom: 200px; } to ensure your site footer isn't covered up by the nudger.
  • To make the nudger a bit more polite you can optionally set it to disable itself for the remainder of the current browsing session if a visitor clicks the close button.

Quirks Mode Considerations

If your web site happens to render in Quirks Mode you will need to correct that in order for the nudger to show up correctly in Internet Explorer, however, this can usually be accomplished by simply specifying a doctype if one is missing or by switching to a standards compatible HTML doctype.

The HTML5 doctype as well as all of the XHTML 1.0 or 1.1 doctypes, which are the most commonly used for modern or relatively modern web sites are already rendered in standards compliant mode and require no changes.

On older web sites that use HTML 4.01 you must use the complete doctype with system identifier which would be one of the following:

  • <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
  • <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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