Thread: How do I make a thumbnail of a site?

Okay, how do I take a screenshot of a site and make a thumbnail of it?

Or is there somewhere I can get a thumbnail of a site?

Need it in this format and size:
thumb.jpg" width="69" height="51

Thank you.

Simple method...

1. Bring up website
2. Take a screenshot (SHIFT-PRINT SCREEN)
3. Open MS Paint
4. Create a new document with your desired dimensions
5. CTRL-V to paste your image to the document
6. Save the document as a jpg

First time for me to do this.
Where oh where does the info go when I do the shift-print screen?
ANd how to put into paint?

There's a button on your keyboard that says

Print Screen
Sys Rq

mine's just beside F12

on paint, you just go to Edit > Paste or the usual Ctrl + V on the keyboard and there you go, it should paste.

There would come some times that MS Paint will resize your work area to the size of the image you're pasting instead of staying up on the dimension attributes you've set... I still don't know how to make that stop...

Originally Posted by iowadawg

First time for me to do this.
Where oh where does the info go when I do the shift-print screen?
ANd how to put into paint?

It goes to your Windows clipboard. Then you just paste (CTRL-V) it into the image you're creating in MS Paint.

Where the crap is clipboard?
I can not find it on my computer.

Originally Posted by iowadawg

Where the crap is clipboard?
I can not find it on my computer.

It's a function that is built into Windows.

When you copy and paste something, it is copied to the clipboard and pasted from it.

There are utilities that you can use to view the clipboard contents. Google for them.

Well, after trying some websites out, some programs out, etc.
Came up with the Iowadawg workaround!

Just inputted the sites I wanted thumbnails for into my directory, then copied and pasted to desktop, then renamed and uploaded to the directory.
The quick and dirty way????

You can see my output at http://www.greatdirectories.net
on the left hand side, recommened sites.