I’m looking to deploy a semi-temporary alert box about maintenance on our website. However I don’t want anything too aggressive like a browser warning box. I’d also really like it to remember if a visitor has already been to the site and clicked close, so not to display it again.
Essentially I’m looking at how to do the S.O. “First time here? – Check FAQ” box at the top of the page, but after a google and a S.O search I can’t find a good example. I’m actually a serverfault.com geek, so programming isn’t my forte!
Any help much appreciated.
Check out jQuery, it is a very cool extension to the JavaScript language. One of it’s plug-ins Impromptu seems to provide what you need.