I just implemented AJAX techniques to allow user-friendly visual selection of mobile phones for use. Check this out www.mobilemediacentre.nl/en/registration Click on the cell phone icon, there will be an in-line popup. I used Graybox to do this. You can select the cell phone manufacturers on the left hand side, and choose your type of device in the middle frame. When the mouse hover the device image, product functionality and compatibility of the chosen device will be displayed on the right side under the device image. All cell phone info is retrieved from database. After you selected the device, you will be linked back to the registration page and see which device you have chosen. I have so far got some remarkable feedbacks: make the information popup only popup when it is clicked. (The i - image). Since an accidental hover may cause an unwanted popup. You could just use a tooltip saying, click for more info etc. Well, the original idea behind the auto-popup for the info button is to give the site viewers a simple and ease expression; they don't have to make the unnecessary click if they don't want to. It's also very true that viewers will get annoyed by accidentally hovering the INFO icon over and over. Please vote for your favorites or you have better idea? Any suggestions are welcomed. Regards,
First off, I think it works REALLY well! I can understand the criticism though because it does introduce inconsistency on your page. Sometimes you do expect the user to click, and in other parts of your interface you don't. I think the "i" would work just as well as clickable and would stop the "surprise" element just from scrolling the mouse over it. But it does all have a great look and feel.
Hi ecentricNick Thank you very much for the compliment and remark on this. I will definitly look into the auto-popup for the info button as you have different opinions. you remarks are very well taken, I will work on this. Thank you Regards, Deo
modified the auto popup information button according to the feedbacks that I got. please go to mobilemediacentre.nl/en/registration How does it look to you now? any better suggestions? Thanks plenty for the remarks. Regards,
Better though I find the box closing on a mouse out annoying. I'd rather a simple "close window" or "x" on there. But that might just be my taste. Oh, and your dns record doesn't seem to be set up to work without the www prefix on your url?