If you can’t find the custom HTML option in Wix anymore, we’re here to help you.

Wix didn’t make the option unavailable, they just hid it a bit – but you can still embed SnackTools widgets (music players, slideshows, ebooks, polls, banners and more) and other types of widgets in your Wix website.

Here are all the steps:

1. Go to Apps – Free, and then scroll down the list till you see the custom iFrame/Embed option. Click on it.

2. Click Add to site. Then double click the object.

3. Change the mode from web address to “HTML code”, paste the HTML code and then update.

4. Drag and drop the widget wherever you want on the page.

 That’s it!

Embedding a poll into your website is really really easy with PollSnack. If you can use the computer and browse the web, then you know how to create and post a poll on your website, because it’s just as easy with PollSnack.

Create poll

Go to PollSnackand log in. You can sign up with Facebook or Twitter and connect to the app in seconds. Then just choose poll and enter the question and possible answers. Customize your widget, and at the very end, publish. You’ll see that you have an embed option. Click on “embed”, and then copy the code. You’ll need to paste it in IM Creator.

Add poll to IM Creator

IM Creator is both very easy to work with, with the friendliest type of user interface: drag and drop. To add a poll to IM creator, do this:

Click Add an Element, choose HTML.
Click “Edit HTML” and then paste the embed code.
Drag and drop the poll widget anywhere on the page.

Wasn’t it the easiest thing ever?

As you may have noticed already, we’re rolling out a new feature: public profiles.

Public profiles contain all public widgets created with FlipSnack by each user, along with some information about the user. It’s the perfect place to showcase all your flipping books.

If you have flipbooks that you’d like to keep private and not show in your public profile, you have the option of unchecking the box for public link in “my FlipSnack”.

Here is how you can personalize your FlipSnack profile:

- Set your own custom URL: www.flipsnack.com/username. Use a custom URL that represents you or your brand, and use it in campaigns, on your website or even on business cards.
- Upload a small photography or logo.
- Set your full name, location and a short description about you, your business or your portfolio.
- Add your website and blog addresses.
- Add social media buttons: Fb, Twitter, G+, Youtube, Vimeo (you can choose which ones you want to show on your profile).

All these options can be edited from Account options, or by clicking the “edit profile” link that’s right above the username.

For our free users we’ll display all flips with limitations: watermarks, 3 pdfs/flip, 15 pages/pdf.
There are no limitations for Premium users. Everything they set as public will show on their profile without any limitation.

What’s great about public profiles is that when you share a flipbook, your visitors will be able to go to your profile page and check out other creations made by you.

Go to flipsnack.com and edit your profile page.
Here’s an example: http://www.flipsnack.com/flipsnack/ We can’t wait to see yours!

Hello everybody!

Would you like to know what we’ve been working on lately? We’ve made PodSnack fully HTML5 compatible.

If you’re not quite sure you know what it means, you’ll be happy when you hear it. This is good news, because now your players will work on non-flash devices and they will load faster.

All templates and players are 100% HTML5 compatible, and will work only with HTML5/CSS3 compatible web browsers. The new version works through iframe. This means that all players can only be embedded using the <iframe> tag.

This change will affect the download package as well, which will now be 100% HTML5.

All the templates are still there, unchanged, and you can use the application the same as you have before. We hope you appreciate what we’ve been doing here.

Here’s a PodSnack player. Let’s listen to some music now!

One of the reasons we’re so proud of FlipSnack is its versatility. It’s the perfect fit for both individuals and businesses who want to make stylish presentations of their products, offers, work or ideas.

Online catalogs. Nowadays, companies are turning their print catalogs into online catalogs because there are many advantages in doing that: you can insert links, change or update them easily and as many times as you want.
There are many gorgeous catalogs built with FlipSnack already. Here’s one of them:

Pricing lists. Spice up the boring look of a long pricing list by making an attractive flip book of it and people will actually want to flip the pages and read it.

Portfolios. Present all your work, awards and your business information in a professional way:  build a flipbook.

Brochures & magazines. Make online brochures and magazines that look just as beautiful as those in print.

Client presentations. You can make great presentations for clients using FlipSnack instead of powerpoint slideshows and your presentation will look different (more creative). We have this new feature that will allow you to turn pages using a wireless pointer (in full screen mode). Check that option from Other settings.

What type of flipbook will you make?

Not all PDF files convert flawlessly. Sometimes the entire PDF file or some pages from a PDF file are converted to images instead of SWF files. Usually when this happens you will notice a difference in quality between pages when you open the flip book in full screen and use the zoom in feature.

Technically, what happens is that some highlights and effects aren’t recognized by the flash player and therefore they can’t be converted to SWF files (each page in your flipbook is a SWF file).

When this happens, the solution I personally use and recommend (it works every time) is to rasterize each page from the PDF file.

How to do that:

1. Open the PDF file with Adobe Acrobat Pro.

2. Save each page from the PDF file. File -> Save As -> Image->JPG.

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We are excited to announce that we’ve added new features in FlipSnack. We hope you will enjoy it even more and expand on the things you do with it.

So here are some of the changes:

1. Upload

You’re not limited to PDF files only anymore. You can upload JPG, JPEG and PDF files to your flip book.
The upload allows for up to 100 different files. Each PDF file is limited to 500 pages.

2. Settings

For the hardcover template there’s this new option of uploading an image for cover.
You can have hardcovers in all the other templates as well: the first page of your flipbook, or an image you choose to upload.
You can merge all files (PDFs, JPEG and JPG) to one flipbook.

Another cool new option is the Single page view, which will display only one page at a time. You’ll find it in the Other settings section. Click Show more to reveal the single page view option.

We have tooltips in several languages. If we don’t have FlipSnack tooltips in your language yet, please help us translate them by sending us an email.

3. Publish (Stats)

Now we’re showing advanced stats for each individual file. Click Show stats details, and it will show the number of views for each file.

What do you think about the new options?