On my journey through the wonderful world that is the World Wide Web today, I can across an entry in the RSS Blog concerning a new add on for website which could provide a preview of the site you where linking to, simply when the visitor hovered over the link.
I was intrigued, sounded like fun, but did it have a real use on websites, or was it a gimmick that would be fun for a short time then make your site look as though it was produced in FrontPage.?
Well I have added it to this blog this afternoon, and with a little hesitance, I have to report I spent far too much time going to every link and trying it out, seeing what the preview would produce.
From an implementation point of view, it was a simple 1-2-3 process.
- You visit http://www.snap.com/about/spa1B.php and enter your website URL and your Email address
- Once you enter the security code (to ensure you are not a robot) you are taken to a page with the required code to add to your site/page
- Go to your site, and add the code.
It was a simple as that, a small JavaScript of a few lines to add to the Head of your site.
They even provide 3 PDF’s for adding it to Blogger, WordPress and TypePad.
There is an FAQ section, but really in terms of adding it to your site, you really are not going to need much help, just find the closing head tag of your html and paste the script before it.
I have to say for a small piece of coding, it has great potential and wish the creators over at Snap.com all the best, this could be big, a simple piece of coding which adds that little piece of convenience to your site, and a small step into Web 2.0 for us all.
Carl Grint
Web Development Consultant
providing web development services including Web site design and development, E-commerce sites, the complete development of Intranets/Extranets and a wide range of Web applications.
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