UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing Admin Zone URL Snap Shots

Add site snap shots to your URL links.



Go to https://account.snap.com/ and create your snap shot preview (pick color scheme, add logo, etc.).

A few things to note:

1. Paste your code in Control Panel / Display Options / General / HTML Includes / Header Insert:
2. You may find that internal links display "Forbidden" in the snap shot window. To stop this from happening paste the following below the previous code (changing EXAMPLE to your domain):
   
   
   Code

   <script type="text/javascript">
   //<[CDATA[ 
   var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
   for (var l = 0; l < links.length; l++) { 
       if(links[l].href.match(/^http:\/\/www\.EXAMPLE\.com/)){
           links[l].className += " snap_noshots";
       }
   }
   //]]>
   </script> 

Thank You.

If it becomes too invasive you can select to have an icon next to the link that activates the snap shot, so the text link remains clear.

I'm sure some people LOVE this, but I'm on the other side of the fence and HATE it. I employ software in fact to prevent that crap from happening on web pages.

No offense, and thanks for sharing for those that do like it.

I agree that it can be quite the annoyance; not to mention you're doing advertising for the company... do you see any profits from it or do they take it all?

you can set the snap options to allow each user to enable/disable snaps..

Indeed and not only just on your site, but all sites that employ it.

Gizmo - I believe you can get a share of advertising as well

Yes, if you have one you can incorporate your own Google AdSense account.

I also quite like the fact that you can see if a link is still active or 404 without having to visit.

Well, that part is nice; but I hope some people know that they're only allowed 3 ad units per page and that these still count as "in line" so they could be in violation of google's TOS if they have 3 ad's and then the link listing...

Then again, I think it's also a violation to have any other adertising of the same type (ie, text links) on the same page as a google ad, so if you had theirs and then your own, you may be in trouble...

Then theres the folks using yahoo ad's, or anyone else for text based ad's (and some otherS); they don't like to share lol...

I'd sugguest contacting the folks over at google should you plan to roll this out and use your own google adsense account...

On the negative side, because the script is looking to an external website, it does take longer for the initial page to load.

As google have today announced plan to by Yahoo, I doubt there will be an issue there.

I would have thought that they would have already have sorted any issues out with Google.

Ignore that - it is Microsoft who wish to buy Yahoo.

was about to say... lol