BlinkingTab is a Javascript plugin allow you to bring visitors back to your site by blinking the tab title.
- Easy to setup
- Bring back visitors to you website (== Money ==)
- Doesn't need JQuery to work
- Actually it doesn't require any other plugins
- Many options to play with...
- Open source & under MIT License :)
Checkout our Demo page: [http://crazygentleman.github.io/BlinkingTab/demo.html]
Download blinkingtab.js file to your website's root path and then add the script at the bottom of the page you wish to activate the Blinking Tab to, before the < /body> tag:
...
<script src="blinkingtab.js" type="application/javascript"></script>
<script> BlinkingTab(); </script>
</body>That's it :D
In order to set configuration to the plugin you can define one/many of the variables (mentioned below) inside the BlinkingTab(), for example:
<script> BlinkingTab({
titleBlink_1: '-- NEW TITLE -- ',
delayBeforeBlinkingSeconds: 5,
...
}); </script>Here's a list of the variables you can define:
autoStart : (true|false) by default it's set to true, set it to false if you don't want to autoStart the plugin (for example if you wish to activate the functionality later by calling BlinkingTab.start();)
titleBlink_1 : (string) the first title that will be seen when blinking the tab title
titleBlink_2 : (string) the second title that will be seen when blinking the tab title
titleWhenTabActive : (string) by default it takes the current title of the page, the title that will set when the user come back to your website again [require revertToPreviousTitle: true]
revertToPreviousTitle : (true|false) by default it's set false, set it to true if you wish to revert to another title when the user come back to your website again
delayBeforeBlinkingSeconds : (seconds) by default it's set 2, How much time (in seconds) before the title start blinking
blinkIntervalSeconds : (seconds) by default it's set 0.5, Interval of blinking between the first title (titleBlink_1) & the second (titleBlink_2) [require blinkTitle: true]
blinkTitle : (true|false) by default it's set true. True: will blink the title | False: will simply replace the title with titleBlink_1 when the user is inactive
redirectWhenActive : (true|false) by default it's set false, set it to true if you wish to redirect your visitors to another URL when they return to your website
redirectURL : (string) the redirection URL [require redirectWhenActive: true]
animateTitle : (true|false) ... Coming soon
- Chrome
- ... will test it in more browsers soon
Please donate to me via Paypal or Flattr.
I will graciously accept any donations, but because of the Paypal and Flattr fees, may I suggest you to give at least 5 $ or 5 euros. It is little bit more than a cafe but will be tremendously helpful.
Thanks a million, greatly appreciated.
The MIT License (MIT)
Free Software, Hell Yeah!
Copyright (c) 2014 Mohamed Ahmed Fouad
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