Announcements
FREE Included with every WebForger site
One notice across your whole site, as a bar along the top or a card in the middle of the page, with the dates it should start and stop already set. It reads your site's own colours and type, so there is nothing to style, and when the end date passes the notice takes itself down without anyone remembering to.
A bar you can ignore, or a card you cannot.
Both previews below are the announcement running on a placeholder store with sample wording, so you can see the two levels of interruption side by side before choosing one.
Interface preview with sample wording. The bar sits above everything, never dims the page and can be dismissed. Use it for a standing fact such as a shipping threshold or the hours over a holiday period.
Interface preview with sample wording. The popup dims the page behind it, which is the right weight for something a visitor would be annoyed to miss, such as a closure or a change of address. Both versions take their colours, corners and type from the site they are on.
The notice you forget to take down costs more than the one you never put up.
Every business has a handful of things that are true for two weeks and then are not. You are closed between Christmas and the sixth. The sale runs until Sunday. Orders placed after Thursday ship the following week. These are the easiest questions your site can answer, and they are the ones it usually answers wrong, because somebody has to remember to put the notice up and then remember to take it down again.
A notice with an end date solves the second half of that, which is the half people actually get wrong. You write the dates when you write the words, and the announcement retires itself on time whether or not anyone is thinking about it. Everything else here exists so the notice does not cost you something else on the way through: not your page speed, not a mobile ranking, and not a sale from somebody who was already at the checkout.
- The end date is enforced on our side, not in the visitor's browser. A closure notice that outlives the closure because somebody's laptop clock is wrong is worse than no notice at all, so the decision is made on our edge network before the page is served.
- It never appears where it would cost you money. Cart, checkout, account and thank you pages are refused outright, whatever the campaign says. Interrupting somebody who is already paying you is the one place a popup is guaranteed to lose.
- Your mobile search traffic is protected from your own popup. Google treats a card covering the page somebody just landed on from a search result as a ranking signal against you. On that first mobile pageview the popup steps down to a slim panel instead of going silent, so the message still lands.
- There is nothing to style and nothing to match. Every colour, corner radius and typeface in the announcement reads the same design tokens your site already uses, so it looks like it was built with the page rather than dropped on top of it.
- If anything about it fails, the visitor sees your site exactly as it is. The announcement never blocks the page from rendering and never retries. A notice is worth having, but not at the price of the site behind it.
Four decisions, and you only make two of them.
Pick how loud it is
A bar along the top or the bottom for a standing fact nobody needs to act on. A card over a dimmed page for something that would be a problem to miss, with or without a photo. A wide panel that slides down from the top for a notice that has to hang around for weeks and still be read. Same app, three levels of interruption.
Give it a start and an end
The notice goes live on the date you name and stops on the date you name, which means a Christmas closure can be written in November and forgotten about. You can also pause one without deleting it, and put it back a month later when the same thing is true again.
Choose where and how often
The whole site, the home page only, or one section such as every page under your bookings area. It can appear straight away, after a few seconds, or once somebody has read part way down. And it can show once per visit, once ever, or every so many days, so a returning customer is not told the same thing every morning.
See whether it worked
Thirty days of counts for how often the notice was shown, how often it was closed and how often somebody clicked its button. No visitor is identified and nothing personal is stored. It is enough to tell a notice that is doing a job from one that is only in the way.
Three steps, and the last one is nobody's job.
Tell us what it says
A headline, a sentence, where the button should go if you want one, and the dates it runs between. If you are not sure whether it wants a bar or a popup, say what the notice is for and we will tell you which one fits.
It goes up looking like your site
We publish it, usually within the hour, and you get a preview first. There is nothing to style, because it reads your own colours and type, and nothing to install, because the site already knows how to show it.
It takes itself down
On the end date the notice stops appearing, and the pages go back to exactly what they were. If you want it back for the next long weekend, it can be republished with two new dates rather than written again.
What people ask before turning it on.
Is the Announcements app really free?
Will a popup hurt our Google ranking?
Can we show it on some pages and not others?
Does it slow the site down?
How do we change or remove one in a hurry?
Two more apps for the front of the site.
Every app on the platform is included on every site at no monthly fee.
Google Reviews
FREE
The reviews you have already earned on your Google business profile, rendered as a proper section of your site and refreshed on its own. An announcement tells people what is happening now, reviews tell them whether to trust it.
Leads Flux
FREE
Contact form submissions sorted into genuine enquiries, sales pitches and junk, with a first reply drafted from your own pages for the real ones. Nothing is sent until you have read it and approved it.
Say it once, on every page, until the date you chose.
WebForger is invite only, so the first step is a short application rather than a signup form. Tell us what you sell, what your site has to announce this year and what you are paying for the widgets doing it now. If we are not the right fit we will say so, and you will still leave with a straight answer.