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I added a WordPress plugin to the blog this evening that displays a screenshot of any external links I post in my blog entries. The feature is powered by Snap.com and is extremely cool in my opinion.
The service is free and is easy to sign up for. Just visit this URL and you can quickly and easily customize the pop-up window with a logo, choose different colors for the pop-up window’s background color, and choose whether or not you want a search box displayed under the screenshot (which I opted not to have), if you want external links to have screenshots and/or if you want internal links to have screenshots. I chose to only have external links display the screenshot pop-up window.
Once you’ve customized the way your pop-up window is going to be displayed, you input the URL of your web site, your e-mail address, a CAPTCHA code, and agree to their terms of service agreement. Once you click submit, they immediately start indexing your site and gathering all the links you have on your web pages. They then create screenshots for those links and you’re good to go almost as soon as you click the submit/continue button.
After that you just copy and paste some HTML/JavaScript code into your web site just above the tag in your web pages or, if you’re running a WordPress blog like cocoacrusty.com, you can install and use the Snap Preview Anywhere™ Plugin by Ajay.
The Snap.com service is free due to the fact that they keep their URL on the pop-up window and have some targeted links in the “Options” section of the pop-up. You really can’t beat that though for a nifty little eye-candy plugin for your blog or web site. Hover your mouse pointer over any external links in this entry for a demo of what this service/plugin does.
Until next time…
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