8. Click the Activate button.
Notification Bar will show up in your list of plugins.
9. Click Notification Bar in the lefthand menu.
You arrive at the General Settings page of Notification Bar.
Note: For this tutorial, I used the free version.
10. Tick the "Enable Notification bar" box.
11a. (Optional) If you have Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, or Google+ accounts and would like the link buttons to appear in the bar, tick the "Show/hide" box under "Social Network Section."
11b. (Optional) If you don't like the "Heading Text," you can change it.
11c. (Optional) Tick the box for each social account you want to include.
11d. (Optional) Fill in the URL for each social account you want to include.
12. Under "Notification Type," make sure "Text" is chosen and not "Opt-in form."
13. Under "Display Mode," I chose "Normal." You should choose whatever suits you.
14. In the box to the right of "Notification Text," type in the message you want visitors to read.
Note: If want to link to one or more of your legal pages, you can do that with html. Here's how:
Use the code below. Remove the "1" and replace it with the link to the page. (Leave the quotation marks.) Remove the "2" and replace it with the name of the page.
<a href="1">2</a>
Do this for each page you want to provide the link to.
Note: I don't recommend you copy my "Notification Text," but if you do, know that the link I used is for Google's Terms of Use and you'll need to replace it with your own.
15. Under "Notification Bar Controls," I chose "Show Only Once" and "User Can Close." You should choose whatever suits you.
16. Click the blue "Save" button.
You'll be brought back to the top of the page and see the message: "Settings Saved Successfully."
If you don't get that message, check to see if you're connected to the internet. (It could have gone out without you noticing.)
If you have an internet connection, click "Save" again.
If that doesn't work, or if you got an error message and you can't solve the problem, contact Site Support. (WA site > SiteRubix button in the lefthand menu > Site Support)
17. Click the "Display Settings" button directly beneath the "General Settings" button on the lefthand side of the page.
Here's where you can get artistic. The free version limits bar placement to top or bottom of your pages (Pro version adds options for left and right,) but you can play around with everything else and customize your bar to a high degree.
Note: You'll see a couple options for "Hover Color." Select colors for them if you want the social icons on your bar to change color when visitors hover their cursors over them.
On page 4 (the last page,) you can see the bars I created.