I know what you're thinking. “I hate pop-ups and they are annoying.” While that may be true for you, and I often think so too, the truth is that they work. I use them on my own website, and they are extremely useful and successful. Looking at the numbers, they can’t be beaten. The thing about pop-ups or modal windows is that you have to use them the right way. Today, we’ll be exploring some tips for modal popup design and implementation. Methods ... There are several methods for triggering pop-ups....
In the last couple of years pop-ups and modal boxes have become a lot more popular, and with the HTML5 dialog element we can create easy HTML dialogs and modals without the need for any JavaScript plugins, just simple HTML and some vanilla JavaScript. Since this feature is so new it’s only available in Chrome Canary and even then you need to go to chrome://flags and turn on the Enable Experimental Web Platform Features flag in order for it to work properly. Helpfully there is also a polyfill developed...