ShrinkTheWeb.com

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A website to turn other sites into thumbnails.

About ShrinkTheWeb.com

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ShrinkTheWeb.com (STW) is a free website thumbnail generator service that lets you render images of any website’s front page, homepage, or subdomain. Specific pages can be captured using a PRO feature (PRO pricing). The idea is simple and effective, you give them a URL and they generate the images for you that you can download and use anywhere to reference your website visually.Moreover, this service also supports various ways to integrate plug-ins, such as preview bubbles, to enhance this tool.
Shrink The submit bar on STW where you can input a URL and have them generate a thumbnail of the page. Click here to visit.

You can open an account with ShrinkTheWeb and get access to a customizable widget that you can install on your own website to generate the thumbnails. This service is mostly free and is ideal for the majority of webmasters, but some people require more. For them there is a Pro users option get custom-sizes, full-length, specific page captures, and more! See this page to see a comparison of the free and Pro service.

Benefits of using ShrinkTheWeb Service

ShrinkTheWeb Thumbnail Generator usage example on NeoBus.com
  • Improve Search Accuracy: By visually displaying an image of your website coupled with your URL, you stand a better chance of associating your website with the keywords in your URL.
  • Recall Previously Visited Sites: Let visitors know which websites they visited by giving them a way to visually see your website.
  • Filter Offensive Sites: Steer clear of adult websites by spotting them before opening the website.
  • Filter Foreign Sites: Visualize text of foreign language websites.
  • Discover Ambiguous Sites: Good to distinguish between two websites of similar sounding names.
  • Find Inspiration and Beautiful Designs: Glance visually through websites and spot catchy designs. Great feature to showcase your own designs!
  • Filter Duplicates or Related Sites: See duplicate websites or identify sites with common content or layout.
  • Filter Parked or Broken Sites: Point out ParkingLot or broken websites.
Visit learn.shrinktheweb.com to read more on uses of STW.

About the founder

ShrinkTheWeb.com was founded by Brandon Elliott of Neosys Consulting to provide a much needed service for webmasters. Brandon is a CISSP, MCSE, CCNA, MCP+I, A+, and has been in the IT industry for a long period of time.

He runs STW as a dedicated service and attributes quite a lot of resources at the back-end to keep this service free, reliable, fast and secure. He is quite open and honest about the challenges that he faces for offering this service for free but explains his reasoning and logic clearly to his audience.

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Read more about Brandon on Neosys.net

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Contact

Web: Webform
Tel: +1-888-763-6797

Languages

Present: English, Romanian, French
Coming Soon: Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, German

Additional Information

Related Domains

Dynamic Thumbnail

File:http://www.shrinktheweb.com/xino.php?embed=1&u=cafda&STWAccessKeyId=83255620eb531af&full=1&scale=15&ymax=1256&Url=http://shrinktheweb.com

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