Introducing New Preview Panels!
Posted Jan 7th 2008 4:33PM by Lisa Edwards
Today we introduced 6 new Preview Panels that are now available to everyone and we are really excited about them. Added to the list are new Preview Panels for eBay, Finance, Health, Movies, Music, and TMZ.
To refresh everyone's memory, Preview Panels are the 4 large buttons at the top right of the page that expand when you mouse over them. What's great about Preview Panels is that they present a lot of information without taking up a lot of space and cluttering your homepage. Just rollover the Preview Panel to see the content you want without having to click off to another page. Plus, customization options allow you to choose the Preview Panels you want to appear on your homepage.
To select one of these new panels, simply click on the small triangle in the upper right of any of the Preview Panels (except Mail which is permanent – everyone wants to see their e-mail right?). Once you choose a new Preview Panel, your web browser will remember your choices and load these up for you every time you open the page.
We hope that you have a chance to try them all and see which ones you like best. Over the next few weeks, we will highlight each of the new Preview Panels on the blog to give you a better understanding of the new features and functionality.
So we really want to hear your feedback on the all of the new Preview Panels. Do you like them? Are they easy to use? Are there things you wish they could do to make it even better? Are there other Preview Panels that you don't see that you would find useful?
We look forward to hearing from you!!!
Sanjay
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101. 18. No, I don't like the panels. They pop up little boxes if you scroll over them, but you cant turn them off. They're almost as annoying as those ads that suddently take over a huge part of the screen.
I dont like AOL changing things all the time. With Windows XP, you have a choice to have your START MENU and folders look like the older Windows 98 views. Hey AOL, why not have that as an option here? Give us a choice to revert to older views and options.
I was so mad when you changed my Netscape email to a AOL email. I like to have a sound happen when I receive new mail, but I HATE the "You've got mail" sound!! But it's not an option. There's no way to take it off, unless I turn all the sounds off. I wish you would've left my stuff alone, but oh well. I didn't choose you, and I didn't want you!! Too late for that now. :(
Posted at 6:58PM on Mar 6th 2008 by steven
102. Wish I had a choice of the old Netscape, and continued support. We need more stand alone browsers not less.
Posted at 7:09PM on Mar 6th 2008 by obratsch
103. Hello!!!!!!
Posted at 7:14PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Rudigil
104. Hi AOL This aol Destop haven been working right is something you can do to make it work right thank you.Colbert Herbert
Posted at 7:16PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Colbert Herbert
105. hola
Posted at 7:20PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Erick
106. I tryed to select a new previwe panel but there is no triangel at the top corner to select new one.
Posted at 7:28PM on Mar 6th 2008 by flex5823
107. Over the past 3 months I have been VERY disappointed with AOL which I've been using almost since it's inception. The performance of the emails functions is slippery and inconsistent regardless of how I fix the settings - often times I can't even get to my address book. I've started using gmail as back up. I'll hang in there for a few more months but if I don't see some noticable improvements in reliablity - I'm jumping ship.
Posted at 9:21PM on Mar 6th 2008 by pemoye
108. Does anyone know how to permanently remove the "surfometer" from AOL?
Posted at 9:40PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Mathew
109. I have been an AOL user from 1992 maybe 93 and over the years we have had our differences. All in all I am and have always been very happy with AOL and I find that times bring change. I would like the idea of putting what I want on my own page but this has been good for me and I do like the embay on top for my use. What I do not like on top is FLASH, this slows many thing down and I find that much of what I do is slow all ready. So, getting ride of FLASH would improve AOL a great deal. Over all I am happy with AOL.
Posted at 10:53PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Granbo500
110. I can't find my toolbar carousel anymore. Anybody know how to fix that?
Posted at 10:55PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Debra
111. I wish AOL could go back to the way it was when it was AOL 6 or 7 and you had to pay. Those were the days when AOL was great. When they moved their customer service to India, that was it's downfall. They took a great thing and ruined it. I use aol.com and yahoo.com for mostly email service only. AOL only cares about it's advertising dollars now, not about it's users, even the ones still paying full price.
Posted at 11:08PM on Mar 6th 2008 by weenie1207
112. Thanks everyone for the comments!
For those of you who for some reason arent seeing the little triangles, its possible that you are in what we call "screen reader-friendly mode" which takes some of the complexity away from the page for ease of reading for people needing accessibility assistance (blind users, etc). If this is happening, try going to http://www.aol.com/?sr=0& to reset that.
Hopefully that solves the problem!
Sanjay
Product Manager
www.AOL.com
Posted at 11:10PM on Mar 6th 2008 by Sanjay Nayar
113. Someone please tell me how the hell to get those stupid little panel windows off of my desktop. If I want to read the news I'll open AOL.
Posted at 6:23AM on Mar 7th 2008 by Sadie
114. I just loved the service It makes AOL my number 1 on my favs list at home and even on the work computer I will just enjoy the services of AOL for the reso of my life Great work From the AOL staff on such a great job doin this for everyone in the whole country and all over the world.
Peace and again great job AOL NUMBER 1 FOR EVER
Posted at 8:55AM on Mar 7th 2008 by bubayellow92
115. Love It
Posted at 11:36AM on Mar 7th 2008 by Jennifer L. Williams
116. I'd love to be able to skip that screen entirely, and just go right to mail.
I don't like links to lots of places, as I don't use the AOL portal to surf, watch TV, listen to radio, etc., I only use AOL for email. Is there a way to do this without the use of ad-blocking software? I've been a paying AOL subscriber for many years, and don't think I should have to have a smaller screen, or delays for ads.
If things get much worse, I'll have to switch email addresses to one from my high speed cable provider. Like many people, I only kept this because I've had it for so long.
Posted at 9:17PM on Mar 7th 2008 by Joe
117. I myself, have throughully enjoyed AOL for over 10 years now. Some of you really have been rather rude with your comments.
I live in a rural area, and not being able to get high speed internet directly through AOL,I've had to use another. I would like to see the original AOL sigh on screen, rather than having to go through Inernet Explorer.
I do heve to pay both AOL & my High Speed server is the only bummer, but I still like AOL.
Posted at 2:46AM on Mar 8th 2008 by mspiddle2
118. I guess I will have too remember that you can pickup to 3URLs & how does that work ?
Posted at 3:39PM on Mar 8th 2008 by loriahorst
119. Sanjay....
Is your last name Gupta????
Posted at 4:19PM on Mar 8th 2008 by suzanne
120. Can you tell me how to stop emails with AUTOMATIC RESPONSE,it is annoying and time comsuming to delete them from sent emails.Thank You,Ian Kagimoto.
Posted at 9:24PM on Mar 8th 2008 by Ian Kagimoto