Popup Notification
Say the one thing every visitor needs to know right now.
For the announcement that cannot wait to be found.
Some information cannot rely on someone browsing to the right page. Services cancelled for weather. A change of meeting location. A funeral. A gospel meeting starting tonight. The popup puts a single message in front of everyone arriving at your website, before they go looking for anything.
You write a title and the message itself, with full formatting so you can include a link to the page with the details, emphasize a time, or keep it to one plain sentence. It appears over your site for every visitor until you turn it off.
The whole thing is one switch. Turn it on when something needs saying, turn it off when it does not, and your site returns to normal with no leftover banner to remove.
Used sparingly, it works.
The reason most website alerts get ignored is that they are always there. A permanent banner about service times becomes invisible within two visits, and then it is worse than nothing because it has trained people not to look.
Keeping the popup for genuine exceptions is what makes it effective. When it appears, it means something, and people read it. That is worth protecting.
Highlights
- Site-wide message shown to every visitor
- Custom title and fully formatted message content
- Links, emphasis, and full formatting supported in the message
- Single switch to enable and disable
Who This Feature Helps
Leaders
A cancellation can be announced site-wide in under a minute, from anywhere, without editing a page.
Visitors
Someone planning to attend for the first time finds out the service is cancelled before they drive over, which is exactly the impression you want to make.