{"id":24161,"date":"2022-09-05T08:38:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T12:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=24161"},"modified":"2022-09-05T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T12:38:31","slug":"snappa-a-cloudeight-site-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/snappa-a-cloudeight-site-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Snappa &#8211; A Cloudeight Site Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>Snappa &#8211; A Cloudeight Site Pick<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/snappa.png\" alt=\"Snappa - A Cloudeight Site Pick\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"auto-style803\">\n<p><span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Today&#8217;s site of the week ought to appeal to 82.3% of you. That&#8217;s the percentage of our subscribers who love to work with graphics. Of course, it&#8217;s based on an EB International Poll, and she does not bother polling anyone. She uses my top hat, writes numbers on pieces of paper, then picks three numbers, averages them, and adds &#8220;point 3&#8221; to it so it looks official. See what I have to put up with?<\/span><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I spent a goodly amount of time on this site playing around with graphics. But instead of trying to make a graphic to dazzle you, I tried to make a graphic to ingratiate myself with EB. But I know I&#8217;ll fail&#8230; no one ingratiates themselves with EB. Go ahead and try. I dare you!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Anyway, in my futile attempt to please her and thus get a paycheck from the famously parsimonious EB, I created this flattering graphic.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/ebfan1.png\" alt=\"EB FAN CLUB- CLOUDEIGHT\" \/><\/span><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Ain&#8217;t it cute? Imagine a t-shirt like that? Or perhaps a bumper snicker&#8230; don&#8217;t correct that EB, that&#8217;s what I meant SNICKER.\u00a0 Feel free to download the above graphic and send it to EB and see if she&#8217;ll like you more than she does me!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How about another one?\u00a0 This time without the surly influence of EB.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/direct\/2017\/pay-what-you-like\/index.htm\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style810\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/lovec8.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/a><\/span><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And we all love Cloudie, right? Wouldn&#8217;t that make a great t-shirt!<\/span><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Do you think you&#8217;re the only one who loves this part of these articles &#8211; where I stop my oral &#8211; or in this case- written &#8211; perambulation, and bring in the developers to top things off and tell you what the heck this Cloudeight Site Pick is good for?\u00a0 I love it too! And it&#8217;s okay. I know you&#8217;re tired of my rambling by now. I get it. I work with EB. I have tough skin, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">I can take it. I&#8217;m used to it I tells ya! Yes, I can take a hint. I herewith present you with some words from the developers of our site pick&#8230; <strong>Snappa <\/strong>&#8211; <em>not to be confused with the once popular sugary drink Snapple.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"auto-style804\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Take it away, developer people:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"auto-style803\"><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><em><span class=\"auto-style805\">&#8220;<\/span><\/em><strong>A Brief History<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Snappa was founded in 2015 when we noticed that a lot of small businesses struggled to create quality online graphics. The tools available were not only complicated, but they were incredibly time consuming. Hiring a graphic designer was also out of the question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Since then, we\u2019ve been optimizing our graphic design tool to be as quick and easy to use as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Today, Snappa is used by thousands of marketers, entrepreneurs, and non-designers to create a wide range of graphics for social media, display ads, blog posts, and more.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The Team<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Snappa is proudly headquartered in Canada. We&#8217;re a small, but hard working team that spans across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Are all of your photos and graphics completely free?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">They sure are! All photos and graphics included in Snappa are 100% royalty-free. They can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes and you are not required to provide attribution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Can I use my own company logos and graphics?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Of course! You can upload all of your own photos and graphics into the program and keep your branding intact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Can I use my own custom image dimensions?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Definitely! In addition to providing popular presets, Snappa allows you to create images with custom sized dimensions thus giving you endless possibilities for creating graphics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Are you always adding to your library of photos and templates?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Absolutely! Over a thousand new photos are added daily and our team of in-house designers are busy creating new templates each and every week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Do I need to install anything to run Snappa?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Nothing whatsoever! Snappa lives in the cloud so you can access it on any laptop or desktop computer with an internet connection.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"auto-style803\">\n<p><span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">That&#8217;s about it folks. If you like playing around with graphics, or if you&#8217;re a graphic designer for a poor broken-down, financially-challenged company like Cloudeight and\/or you don&#8217;t have any money, and\/or you&#8217;re just looking to waste some time &#8211; quality time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snappa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you&#8217;ll enjoy Snappa<\/a> &#8211; we&#8217;re pretty sure you will.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">At least 82.3% of you will.<\/span><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><br class=\"auto-style805\" \/><span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">YES, you do. You do need to sign up to create graphics and download graphics you make to your computer, but signing up is free. Free accounts are limited to three downloads a month. If you&#8217;re a serious designer and do stuff for money or fame, you can create unlimited graphics and downloads for $10 a month. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"auto-style803\"><span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To get a free account, all you need to give them is your name and your email address. If you&#8217;re paranoid, give them any old name &#8211; like Lucy Jupiter, or Bill Andromeda, and cloak your real email address using an email address cloaking service (throwaway email addresses) like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guerrillamail.com\/\">Guerrilla Mail<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.throwawaymail.com\/\">ThrowAwayMail<\/a>. Where there&#8217;s a will, there&#8217;s a way!<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"auto-style805\">Now it&#8217;s time to say goodbye and send you off to make some eye candy or dazzling graphics. Or should I say it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snappa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>time for 82.3% of you to take a trip to Snappa and see what you can do?<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span class=\"auto-style805\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Thanks for the scientific poll, EB. You&#8217;re a peach!<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Snappa &#8211; A Cloudeight Site Pick Today&#8217;s site of the week ought to appeal to 82.3% of you. That&#8217;s the percentage of our subscribers who love to work with graphics. Of course, it&#8217;s based on an EB International Poll, and she does not bother polling anyone. 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