I came across someone's myspace page that had a thumbnail image of another website, and the image was a link to that site. Does anybody know how to set that up? I'm familiar with uploading images to a myspace profile, but how do I go about getting the thumbnail?

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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

I'll have to check out that tool you mention Kevin.

For me I do it a bit of a long way:

1. Click Start->Run and in the dialog type iexplore -k. This will open Internet Explorer so it fills the whole screen (kiosk mode) with a Web page.

2. Press Ctrl+O to display an Open box.

3. Type in the URL you want to display in the browser.

4. Press Alt+Print Screen to copy the Web page to the clipboard.

5. Press ALT+F4 to close the browser window.

6. Open an image editor, create a new image and press CTRL+V to paste the Web page into the editor.

7. Resize and save the image.

There are definitely easier methods of getting thumbnail or screen capture of a Web page out there, but this works for me.

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