Have div display ONLY on first time visit (cookies?)

Question

I\'m trying to have a div display on the very first time a user visits my site. I\'m pretty sure I do this by using cookies, which I have limited experience with and am have

Answer 1

Your cookie code looks fine. You need to run it in the document ready handler, so that it waits until the document is loaded before toggling the DIV:

$(function() {
    var visit=GetCookie("COOKIE1");

    if (visit==null){
        popbox3();
    }
    var expire=new Date();
    expire=new Date(expire.getTime()+7776000000);
    document.cookie="COOKIE1=here; expires="+expire;
}

I've also made setting the cookie unconditional, so that every visit to the site will push back the expiration time.