What are your thoughts on web bars? | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

The ones that floats along the top or bottom of your website. Do you think they're too obstrusive? does it bother you?

I'm thinking about putting one up but want to know what you guys think

I've tried the floating one at the bottom (forgot the name of it) and I've also used the Hello Bar.  Personally, I like the Hello Bar better.   Although, I don't have it up now, I'm considering adding it back to include a link to an affiliate post on my site.

20sfinances said:

I too don't like them, with a passion. Similar to Miss T, I'd be interested to hear if they are successful.

The only thing that I gather is that Tim Ferriss and Ramit Sethi both use them and these guys are testing fools.  They've both had them on their site for quite sometime.

I guess I just need to add mine back and test my affiliate post theory.  Will report back….

I don't like them, but it would probably worth trying out. If it is at the bottom of page I find it less annoying than at the top.

I kinda like how SPF has it on top though, looks like it belongs there.

I also like Hello Bar, but that is a simple top of page bar that goes away when you scroll. Ones that follow me around are annoying to say the least.

Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:

Jeff, add it to the thesis_hook_before_header hook. It is not working with that hook?

If it's javascript, do you have to do wrap it with something to make it work in Thesis Open hook?

For some reason I thought you had, too.  I tried it by itself and it didn't work.

Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:

I don't have openhook, I usually put them in the custom_functions.php file.

 

function hello_bar() { ?>

<script>…</script><noscript>..</noscript>

<?php }

add_action('thesis_hook_before_header','hello_bar');

 

This is how I have it. if you are putting it in openhook, may be you have to enable scripts or something?

 

Wrap the script inside <div class="hellobar"></div> if you want to customize it within thesis or if you want to display it only on the home page you can add is_home() or only on individual pages is_single() or only on certain pages that are relevant to the affiliate post that you are planning to add is_single('postid')… 

 

I do have it, but it is not displayed all the time, it is still in the split testing mode so only 3 out of 10 people see it. 

That worked!  At first it didn't because I didn't turn it on.