Aweber Lightbox Settings and general advice on email sign up forms | Help Desk | Yakezie Forums

Hi guys. I'm learning how to use Aweber's Lightbox email sign up forms and have some questions. If you have any advice or insight on my questions please share!

I tried sending an email to Aweber but their help ticket forms aren't working tonight, go figure, so I'm waiting for them to reopen and to fix that

1) What type of email sign up forms have worked the best for you? Lightbox, pop over, pop up, side bar, bottom of post, etc? For anyone using lightbox and pop over – do you use a delay? What about frequency?

2) Lightbox sign up form frequency – any idea how Aweber determine if a user has already seen a form to then start the frequency count? Is it based on IP address or does it use cookies?

3) If a user signs up from the lightbox, will they still continue to see the lightbox based on the form recurrence frequency? Or is there a way for the system not to show active subscribers the lightbox again after they sign up?

4) Anyone used Aweber's split test feature for sign up forms? I created a split test but I'm not sure how to publish it. I think it just involves taking the split test code and putting that in the wp_footer, but I'm not 100% sure I don't have to also put the code for the forms I'm split testing in the footer as well.

thanks!

Hi Barb! I meant to call them in the morning but got sidetracked and being on the West coast, by the time I got home from work they were already closed lol. I sent them an email tonight though and expect to get a response tomorrow. They've been pretty fast over email in the past.

As for a lightbox, it's a type of sign up form that's kinda like a pop up but it's technically not – in that it doesn't open in a separate browser window.  A lightbox is a form that will hover above/appear on top of a webpage and is programmed to darken the background area surrounding the form while the sign up form is visable. So the form is "lit up" while the webpage is temporarily dimmed/darkened behind it so the readers focus is directed to the sign up form. And then once the lightbox is closed out by the user, the webpage goes back to its normal color/brightness. Sam is using one on financialsamurai that you can see as an example when you visit his homepage. 

The cool thing about a lightbox is that you can program a delay on when it appears – a lot of websites seem to have theirs on instant, but others have a delay of 10, 20, 30 seconds, etc. And you can also choose the frequency of how often a user sees the form – every time they visit a page, every 2 days, every 10 days, etc. So I'm trying to find out more about the logistics behind Aweber's lightbox functionality.

I'll let you know what I find out!

Thanks so much Sydney. I've noticed these lightboxes popping up on sites I visit. They don't seem too intrusive. Are you going to implement one?