Has Anyone Ever Actually USED Wibiya Toolbar On A Website/Blog?

by Bradley J Anderson

Posted: 13 years ago 6 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I first noticed this particular toolbar a few months ago, and I admit I was a bit impressed with it, but for some reason or another I forgot all about it. Until today, that is, when I ran across it on 3 different sites. So I finally went and read about it on their website:

Free Web Toolbar | Wibiya

I found a handful of references to it here on the forum, but never anything more than just a mention.

Has anyone actually used it that could give me/us some indication of how well it worked for you, if at all?

I have to admit, I'm not a fan of toolbars in the least, but this thing actually looks to me like it might have some potential.

If no one has actually tried it yet, then I'll go ahead and download the free version for now, install it on a blog or 10 and see what happens, and then report the results back here.

#toolbar #website #wibiya

Dean Jackson

13 years ago

I agree, it looks nice... but I'm not a huge fan of toolbars. They just seem a little overkill. I've stuck with SexyBookmarks and have a few shares on some of my new sites because makes it real easy.

But if anyone has test results with this I'm sure there are a few interested folks

Dean

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Bradley J Anderson

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Dean Jackson

Dean

I like Sexy Bookmarks, too, that's what I'm using at the moment, but this toolbar has a whole lot of options. Apps, ad intregration and tracking, chat, social bookmarking, who's online, site news, translation and a lot more, too. Plus, it's much smaller than most, and you can also hide it if you find it intrusive.

I never thought I would say this about a toolbar, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to give this one a go and see what happens. I'll definitely post back with the results after I complete testing.

I would really like to hear first from someone that has actually used it, though. It seems to be getting very popular already, so I can't believe that a Warrior hasn't picked up on this yet. Unless they are doing so well with it they don't want anyone else to know about it. :rolleyes:

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Mkj

13 years ago

I have used this toolbar before, quite a long time ago infact when it was pretty new on the market. They had a great many aps that were not fully tested if you asked me as they seemed unreliable, with coding issues. I had conflicts occuring with other javascripts I had installed. Now though they have reduced the number of aps and everything is run far more professionally.

Another toolbar worth a look is this one: Website Toolbar, Website Apps, Chat Room, Web based IM, and more

I tended to prefer the skysa one on some sites as I liked the design more.

After messing around with lots of different toolbars I become a bit disenchanted with them so decided to have a go at creating my own. Here are a few examples:

Simple bar with hide/show and transparency

Lower screen bar with hide/show + transparency + iframe (database query file)

Lower screen bar with hide/show + transparency + google translator

The google translator one could be shown without any background so that only the google translator shows along with the hide/show box.

The above will 'remember' the bar setting on page load, so if a person decides to hide the bar it will remain hidden whatever page they load until they click the hide/show link again.

The transparency disappears on mouse over so that the bar content is clearly viewable.

My own bars load very quickly - except for the translator one as it needs to load the translator from Google - as they are just simple divs and some javascripts.

Feel free to use the above code if you think it might work on any site you have.

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Bradley J Anderson

13 years ago

Thanks for the excellent info. I'm going to go check out those other toolbars now.

Originally Posted by Mkj

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gekko2.0

13 years ago

I used their toolbar on one of my ecommerce websites, there were quite a few complaints about it from my regular customers so I ended removing it.

I liked it but my customers thought it was annoying

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Bradley J Anderson

13 years ago

Originally Posted by gekko2.0

I used their toolbar on one of my ecommerce websites, there were quite a few complaints about it from my regular customers so I ended removing it.

I liked it but my customers thought it was annoying

Annoying as in they just didn't like it? Or annoying as in it was causing problems of some sort for them?

Technically my sites are e-commerce, as well, but most of them I set up as blogs, so I'm not sure if it would be so annoying for them (unless it causes actual problems, of course). I'm thinking it might be a good community builder, which may help improve site stickiness.

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Has Anyone Ever Actually USED Wibiya Toolbar On A Website/Blog?

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