jquery plugin to notify users of a promotion

Question

I am looking for a good popup, or slide down, or whatever to notify users of a promotion (think store). I saw something like that once, but i cant find the link any more.

I am looking for something "sexy", so it will attract the user's attention, but not get in the way of things

Answer 1

How about the jQuery Growl plugin. It is not modal, but does display a notification.

Here's the demo page

I have used the jQuery BlockUI's growl implementation as well.

Answer 2

jGrowl is amazing. I use it to notify users of recent changes to specific pages within my site.

Answer 3

I have seen websites that use the Page Peel effect to advertise promos.

I think it is quite catchy and works well to draw the user's eye to it. Here's a demo.

Answer 4

What's wrong with slide? You can style however you'd like.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(
    function() {
        $("#show").click(function() {
            $("#slide").slideToggle();
        }
        )
    }
); 
</script>

<style>
#slide
{
    height: 30px;
    width: 100%;
    text-align: center;
    vertical-align: middle;
    background-color: Red;
    color: White;
    display: none;
    top:0px;
}
</style>
<div id="slide" style="">
    Super Sexy promotion!
</div>
<a id="show" href="#">toggle</a>`