Opening a sign up window

[Greedo]

My site has affiliate links which open in a new window. The person then 'hopefully' signs up with the merchant and closes the merchant window.

This leaves them with my original window open.

At this point I would like the person to see a 'sign up to newsletter' window but with pop up blockers etc around, what's the best way to do this?

[Donk]

Here are to ways that it can be done:

Put one of these script between the head tags of your sign up form

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var afflink;
afflink=Array("link0.htm","link1.htm","link2.htm","link3.htm");
var affno=location.search;
affno=affno.substring(1,affno.length);
window.open (afflink[affno], 'newwindow', config='toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes')
-->
</SCRIPT>

or

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var afflink=location.search;
afflink=afflink.substring(1,afflink.length);
window.open (afflink, 'newwindow', config='toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes')
-->
</SCRIPT>

The first one you must create an array of your links and use

<a href="signup.htm?1">affiliate link</a>

in your page (Note the array starts counting from 0 so 1 would be the second link in the array)

For the second one use the full affiliate link:

<a href="signup.htm?http://www.afflink.asp">affiliate link</a>

Hope this gives you some ideas.

bob

[Donk]

Just as an afterthought

You should use

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write('<a href="signup.htm?1">affiliate link</a>');
-->
</script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://www.afflink.asp">affiliate link</a>
</noscript>

in your original page to cater for people with javascript disabled.