[Sigia-l] Tool to automate generation of thumbnails of webpages?

[alfred at thunderstick.com]

Why? Haha .. well, I'm launching a new website and the client wants them?

www.looboo.com FWIW .. a work in progress.

Best,
Alfred Werner

On Thu, 22 May 2003, John O'Donovan wrote:

> Rob Said:
> > BTW: I'm surprised there isn't a testing lab somewhere that offers this as
> > an online service.  It would be great to be able to pass them your sites
> > URL and get screen grabs/pics of what it looks like on 50 different
> > browser/platforms emailed back in a pdf...
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> There are services that do this as you are right that these are useful
> services, but the issue here might be the volume of links you need to
> capture and the associated cost. E.G.
>
> http://www.netmechanic.com/browser-index.htm
>
> http://www.browsercam.com
>
> Even at a buck per URL for Browsercam this could get expensive if you are
> doing loads of URLs, and you may still may need to collate data in a way
> that is not provided by the service.
>
> Why people need to capture so many URLs and be so nosey about what other
> sites are doing though I have no idea... :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> jod
>
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