Is this functionality in Site Designer?

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I’ve been looking at the functionality of Site Designer to try and work out if it makes it easy to do a particular function but my problem is I don’t really know what I’m searching for!

My site: https://www.eaton-it-solutions.co.uk/ was built ages ago using the first version of Responsive Site Designer. Since then I have made various changes by directly updating the HTML and CSS.

I am thinking about re-vamping the site and buying the current version of Site Designer for that purpose. One function that I see on several sites is a browser specific pop-up to help people open files they have downloaded. Piriform have a good example of what I’m trying to achieve here: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download

Once you click "download" the next screen displays a bouncy arrow at the top for Firefox or the bottom for Chrome helping you to locate and open the file. It also changes the icons across the middle of the page depending on the browser you use – I think this is driven by some Java script.

Are there any tools in Site Designer to help produce this type of browser dependant function and pop up alert? If not, do CoffeeCup or anyone else have software to help with this or do I need to write the scripting myself from scratch?

Thanks for your help and thoughts.

User 187934 Photo


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They're using JS to detect Browser and display the animation in the correct location.
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.

This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
User 463248 Photo


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Thanks, yes, I understand that. My question really is does Site Designer have built in functionality to assist in creating JS of this type and also creating the popup or animation.

I think there is something called "toast" in Bootstrap that produces fading pop-ups message boxes that would be good enough for my needs. Does Site Designer have an easy way of creating and controlling objects like that or would I need to write my own JS, HTML etc for that part of the page from scratch?

It's quite possible I'm being an idiot here and not really understanding how much Site Designer is meant to do for me in terms of it's "code free work flow"!

Is this the type of thing one would achieve using a "component" (pre-built by coffeecup or otherwise) or are components about something else altogether?

Thanks for help!
User 463248 Photo


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Not sure where it's gone, but thanks to the person who posted a reply a little while ago. I did see it and your suggestion looks very interesting and useful. I will investigate further in that direction.
User 187934 Photo


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20,181 posts

The only custom stuff you will need to add would be the browser detect script to show and hide the arrow. The arrow can be added through SD.
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.

This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
User 463248 Photo


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18 posts

Thanks for your help Eric. I'm sure I'll get there in the end!
:)

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