Websnapr: A Nifty Free Tool for Web Designers

In today’s digital age, a web administrator would not be surprised to learn that most of his or her visitors come from high speed cable, DSL, or even fiber connections. Today’s internet user demands a rich experience that is high not only in text and other content, but in images as well. Most likely, your site has links to other webpages, most of which are in plain text like this. What if there was a way to improve your static text links with some eye candy? According to websnapr, adding a small thumbnail beside links to other webpages helps in increasing your site traffic, click-through rate, and site stickiness. Here is an example of what websnapr can do to the links on your webpage:

Hover Over the Bubble to the Right

Adding a small bit of JavaScript code to your page header lets websnapr do its thing and provide a small, thumbnail-sized screen capture of the webpage that the link directs to, as in the example above. Pretty cool!

Websnapr is absolutely free to register on and use. You have the option of selecting from two thumbnail sizes for your users:

Micro:

Small:

Also, if you just need to generate a small thumbnail like the pictures above and do not need to provide your users with the “hover-over-bubble” capability, websnapr will provide you with free thumbnails without the need to register.