For a lot of people who don’t have image editing software or the technical knowhow for getting a thumbnail of a website, Thumbshots.org provides Free Thumbshot thumbnails for your site. This could be useful to you if you run your own directory, send out newsletters, want to provide more information about the way a site looks on your personal site or blog and more.

To be able to use thumbshots all you you need to do is sign up, and you will get a piece of code to insert on your site for the thumbshots to be shown. They state that over 90% of internet users would like to see thumbnails before visiting a web page, I like to see them sometimes but not all the time. That’s mainly because I’ve probably visited tens of thousands of websites over the years on the internet.

They even have an extension for Firefox users where Thumbshots will be shown on your Google or Yahoo search. More information here on the Thumbshots Firefox extension. Some sites that presently use them among others are the BBC, blogcatalog.com and AOL.ca.

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About the author

Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.