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Old 02-27-2008, 08:07 AM
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Yes, I've done something like that in the past. What you do is get a snippet of the webpage that you want to use. For example, I'll bring up the the webpage in interest, and then I'll use some type if image capture tool to aquire it. I use vista, and on the quick launch tool bar in the lower left of your screen there is a button called, "snippint tool". Basically, it will capture an image of anything showing on your screen. So once you get the image you want to use, save it somewhere on your pc and go back and edit it with photoshop or whatever image editing tool that you use. What I do is change the image size to an acceptable thumbnail size lie 133 X 100. Or if you don't want to go through that process, there is a website that has a webpage thumbnail generator that will do it for you: http://www.toolbarn.com/web-tools/webpage-thumbnail/

Now, once you have your thumbnail and sized down to where you want it, the process of using that thumbnail as an image link is no different than linking images in html. First you will need to upload the image to a server. What I do is use google picasa. I have a free gmail account with google so you can upload photos for free and use the link from the uploaded photo which the format should look something like this: http://hostyouchoose.com/images/yourthumbnail.jpg

Now, to use the thumbnail image into your myspace, you'll have to edit the html your edit profile section and use a code similar like this:

<a href="http://thepageyou'relinkingto.com" target="_blank"> <img src="http://hostyouchoose.com/images/yourthumbnail.jpg" alt="webpage title" /> </a>

I hope this isn't too confusing. Let me know if you don't understand something and i'll try to clear it up

KevinCamon
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