Sunday 6 June 2010

Four Online Tools To Generate Website Thumbnail Quickly

Website thumbnailWebsite thumbnail is very necessary when you want to telling people about your site. Although it is not as important as the domain, the title, the content of your site, it can bring your visitors visibility and even build up the trust of your website. Here are the list of four favorite online tools to generate website thumbnail for free.

SnapCasa

SnapCasaSnapCasa has been upgrade to version 2.0 recently. You just have to feel into the textbox your address, then press Capture. The thumbnails will appear immediately, while other online tools usually take about 10 to 30s to create a thumbnail and even longer if there are too much people trying to generating thumbnails at that time. That’s really a significant thing of SnapCasa.

SnapCasa thumbnail

However, you only have four choices of thumbnail size in the free version: 280x210, 200x150, 150x105, and 100x75. To generate larger thumbnail, you should upgrade to premium service which allows you to generate thumbnail in any size up to 800 pixels wide and higher quality image.

After the thumbnails appear, you can right click on them and save to you computer.

WebSnapr

WebSnaprWebSnapr is a free website thumbnail generator that lets you capture and display screenshots for almost any website. Free users only have two choices of size: Small (202 – 152) and Micro (90 x 70). If you want a larger thumbnail, you should also upgrade to premium service like SnapCasa.

WebSnapr thumbnail

To generate a thumbnail, you just enter the address of your website in the textbox, then choose the size and press Capture. You have to wait a while if there are a lot of people capturing snapshots of web pages. And the thumbnail will be embed “Powered by WebSnapr” at the bottom right.

Although there are too much limits for free users, there’s another cool thing from WebSnapr. You can send your friends via IM, email or use it in tag by copying the URL link in the address bar. Or you can just right click and save the file onto your computer.

Thumbalizr

ThumbalizrThumbalizr is free and there’s no registration requirement. Although it is still in experimental stage, it is a really cool for generating website thumbnails with plenty of outstanding features which are only available in premium service of other thumbnail generators.

Here are some steps to generate a website thumbnail:
  • First, enter the address of your website into the textbox.
  • Next, choose the mode to capture. There are two modes: Screen capture and Page capture. In screen capture mode, Thumbalizr just capture the first screen of your website while in page capture mode, Thumbalizr will It captures the entire page of your website whatever how long your website is. It is actually an outstanding feature to other website thumbnail generators.
  • Finally, press “thumb it”. The thumbnail will appear in about 26 seconds.
Thumbalizr
The file format of thumbnail is PNG and the size is from 150 to 1280 in pixel width. Just click on the size you want and the thumbnail of your website will be shown in a new tab. You can save that thumbnail to your hard drive or copying the URL link in the address bar to share your friends via the internet.

Thumbizy

ThumbizyThumbizy is my favorite website thumbnail generator. It is completely free, the time of generating thumbnail is really fast and there are many convenient features.

There are 4 sizes of thumbnails: very small (width:100 px), small (width:180 px), medium (width:250 px) and big (width:360 px).

Besides, there are also two modes like Thumbalizr:
  • Visible page is really like Screen mode in Thumbalizr which just captures the first screen of your website.
  • Full page is like Page mode in Thumbalizr which captures the entire of your website.
Moreover, Thumbizy is probably the only one service that applies effects to generated thumbnails. You can apply Round Corners to have four corners of your thumbnail rounded, or you can apply Reflect Effect to make a reflection at the bottom of your thumbnail.

Thumbizy

Just enter the address of your website into the textbox, next choose the right Size, Mode and Effect. Then click on Go! button and wait for a while, the thumbnail will appear below.

Now you can use the available link below the thumbnail to share friends via internet, or right click and save the thumbnail to your computer.

Although they can not meet all the needs of us, they are actually useful. Instead of struggling with layers, or with big and complicated photo editor softwares, you can generate a website thumbnail just with a few clicks and less than a minute and even there’s no need to install a graphic software.

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