Hedir Review : Home page thumbnail creator

nozzmoking · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:46 am Post subject: Home page thumbnail creator

Can anyone recommend a free, or paid-for utility that will create thumbnails of a site's home page?

consumerism · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 771 21940 Hedir Points

I'd use the print screen key then paste and resize the screenshot and use 'save for web' which is quite good in photoshop elements.

Also I'm sure there's a better way than this but this is the fastest way I've found so far to get lots of thumbnails:
press the print screen key on the keyboard, paste the screenshot into any graphics program and save it as an image file.
Put all the screenshots you need in the same directory
The next step was that at the time I had a trial version of macromedia studio and one of the options in dreamweaver is 'web photo gallery'. If you choose the screenshot directory for your photo gallery it asks you what thumbnail size you want and makes them all really quickly using fireworks as part of creating the photo gallery. There must be other photo galleries that would do something similar.

consumerism · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 771 21940 Hedir Points

or did you mean something that would automatically visit the site for you and make a thumbnail of it?

nozzmoking · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply consumerism, however the screen grab won't work as many home pages go below the fold and I need to 'capture' the whole page. If it turns out that this is not possible, then I will go the screen grab route and resize in Photoshop. Thanks again for your input.

consumerism · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 771 21940 Hedir Points

you could try zooming the page in IE7 or Opera so it fits on one screen and then do the screen grab

nozzmoking · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject:

Sounds good! Where's the zoom feature in IE7? I can't seem to locate it.

consumerism · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 771 21940 Hedir Points

I don't know if it's a zoom feature as such, but I usually resize the text in browsers using the CTRL key and mouse wheel - usually this resizes the text but in IE7 it resizes the whole page

Confidence Gal · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject:

Another way you could get a screen shot of your home page, is to check your traffic status on Alexa.com. Your home page should come up as an image in the corner of the results page. Just copy the image.

baggeroli · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:05 pm Post subject:

That's a tough one nozz. As I understand correctly you want thumbs of the entire page, including the part beneath the fold?

Another possibility: Adobe Acrobat Pro which gives you an IE button to convert the current webpage to pdf. Then you can save the pdf as jpg or something. Just tried it and it's not too bad although it has problems with some CSS stuff. It's expensive software but I'm sure you'll find ways to get it. Wink

There's lots of commercial software too: http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmltoimage/help.htm
This is rather good and captures beneath the fold too. This one can also be found as torrent Wink

They also have a developer version which you can integrate in your own app: http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/help.htm
It's much more expensive though.

nozzmoking · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:15 am Post subject:

PCBguy · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject:

redhex · Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 559 18636 Hedir Points

http://www.websnapr.com/

Surely this is the antidote for you.

Hedir Developer · Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 451 16369 Hedir Points

Hi,

we are already using websnapr for our sponsored site listed in Hedir. Another way is