Is this possible?
Is this possible?
Not sure how often somebody actually visits this section of the forum because most of the posts are pretty old but I have a question.
I am thinking of starting a website/blog where I would do giveaways.
I want to use blogger because it is free and has most of the features I need.
As far as I know you can add HTML code into your blog there and so I come to my question.
I want to have a "Enter Giveaway" Button that when pressed will lock it for a time, lets say 5 minutes and link the user to a Youtube video showcasing the product OR playing an embedded youtube video on the page that they are on. As soon as the timer runs out the button would disappear or be clickable again to bring up an entry form where the user would enter their email address or other contact information unique to them. This information would only be visible to me as the host and be assigned a number in order of entering so that after the giveaway ends I could use Random.org or another means of picking a winner without writing down over 200 peoples names.
The basic idea is this:
User clicks button
User forced to watch a video (Obviously the person could pause/close the video and the timer would keep on going but is there any way to prevent that?)
User clicks button again to receive an entry form
Upon entering users credentials are assigned a number in order of entering so 1,2,3,4... not randomly 47,64,83,22...
Credentials stored in a place only visible to me with those numbers for easy winner picking.
I know that there are giveaway softwares out there for blogs and websites already but I do not want to bother the user with "Like this on facebook" or "retweet" or "subscribe" I just want the very basic, click button, watch video, enter.
Also another feature that this would benefit from would be to limit people to entering once per IP or per device.
That's everything I wanted to say about what I want to do. I am not looking for somebody to make this, I am just wondering if this is possible with HTML and blogger or would I need to create my own website and make some of this in Java or C, I know that disabling and enabling buttons and creating timers can be done but I am not sure about the list of people and limiting people to one entry.
Thanks for reading! Sorry if it's a bit wordy in places!
I am thinking of starting a website/blog where I would do giveaways.
I want to use blogger because it is free and has most of the features I need.
As far as I know you can add HTML code into your blog there and so I come to my question.
I want to have a "Enter Giveaway" Button that when pressed will lock it for a time, lets say 5 minutes and link the user to a Youtube video showcasing the product OR playing an embedded youtube video on the page that they are on. As soon as the timer runs out the button would disappear or be clickable again to bring up an entry form where the user would enter their email address or other contact information unique to them. This information would only be visible to me as the host and be assigned a number in order of entering so that after the giveaway ends I could use Random.org or another means of picking a winner without writing down over 200 peoples names.
The basic idea is this:
User clicks button
User forced to watch a video (Obviously the person could pause/close the video and the timer would keep on going but is there any way to prevent that?)
User clicks button again to receive an entry form
Upon entering users credentials are assigned a number in order of entering so 1,2,3,4... not randomly 47,64,83,22...
Credentials stored in a place only visible to me with those numbers for easy winner picking.
I know that there are giveaway softwares out there for blogs and websites already but I do not want to bother the user with "Like this on facebook" or "retweet" or "subscribe" I just want the very basic, click button, watch video, enter.
Also another feature that this would benefit from would be to limit people to entering once per IP or per device.
That's everything I wanted to say about what I want to do. I am not looking for somebody to make this, I am just wondering if this is possible with HTML and blogger or would I need to create my own website and make some of this in Java or C, I know that disabling and enabling buttons and creating timers can be done but I am not sure about the list of people and limiting people to one entry.
Thanks for reading! Sorry if it's a bit wordy in places!
