5 Big Reasons to Return to Snap Preview Anywhere

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Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA) is back. A quick little background for those who haven’t heard of SPA (which I really don’t think so though). Snap gives you an image-preview of particular website when your mouse moves over any predetermined text hyperlink. This fresh concept has quickly adapted by publishers but soon withdrawn after massive complains from visitors. Apparently visitors finds this cool at first but soon annoyed by the image popups during navigations of pages. Try searching Snap Preview Anywhere sucks in Google, you’ll know what I mean.


Publishers who gave up SPA, now you have reasons to come back. Folks at Snap has been working hard on the reasons you quit and now they bring you

5 Big Reasons to Return to Snap Preview Anywhere.

  • Choose Your Own Color Theme
  • Add Your Logo To The Preview Bubble
  • Choose A Snap Link Icon and Trigger to prevent accidental previews
  • Put a Snap Preview Anywhere Badge on your site to give your users the option to turn on previews
  • More Advanced Options
  • Here’s the detail description on the upgrades, for those still hesitate and the ones that did not receive newsletters from SPA. Content are originally from SPA.

    1. You picked your colors. The least we could do is match them.


    It’s your site. You work hard to make it look good. So, rather than limit you to plain old boring white, you can now have Snap Preview Anywhere in your choice of 8 colors.

    2. Your site is your brand. Now your previews can have your brand, too.

    Since day one, Snap Preview Bubbles have had the Snap.com logo in the lower right corner. Why not balance it out with your logo in the lower left?

    3. The beginning of the end of the accidental preview.


    As great as Snap Previews are, not everyone wants one every time they mouseover a link. So, we’re now adding Snap Link Icons, a tiny bubble icon that appears next to a link to show that it has a preview. At your discretion, you can even change your settings so that only the icon triggers a preview.


    4. Why you need a stinkin’ SPA badge.


    In our on-going drive to give websites and their users as much choice as possible, we’ve created a Snap Preview Anywhere badge that allows your audience to opt-in.

    In other words, you can have Snap Preview Anywhere active on your site, but your audience won’t see it unless and until they choose to see it.

    5. Advanced options for advanced websites and those who want to be.

    A number of customization options that were previously available separately for websites have now been brought together in one convenient interface.

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    Posted by hongkiat in Web 2.0 , at 02.20.07

    Comments

    1. earl-ku February 20th, 2007

      Snap Preview still sucks!

      Reply
    2. Mark Wells February 21st, 2007

      I got rid of snap preview because my readers can trust the links on my site, and the SPA plugin was crashing my wordpress wysiwyg. Sorry guys, not enough utility here for me.

      Reply
    3. jonm March 3rd, 2007

      Snap Preview Anywhere sucks, always has, and still does. Nothing in the changes above helps the vast majority of readers who find SPA really annoying.

      FYI, Snap’s own links to disable SPA do not work (not for me on Firefox anyhow). You can disable their javascript with AdBlock though.

      Reply
    4. subcorpus May 2nd, 2007

      yes its good when it works fine …
      but on slow connection and pages …
      it actually becomes a disruption to the browsing experience …
      it hides what i am trying to read …
      may be it’ll develop into something less intrusive …
      its kewl …

      Reply

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