Over the last few months I've downloaded a lot of free web templates. Now I have hundreds of them on my drive, but it's a total unusable mess, since I have no index or easy way of seeing what I have. It would be nice if I had a tool that would go through the directories, and in each directory look for index.htm or index.html, and if not found just choose any .htm file. Then it would create a thumbnail shot of what that would look like in a browse, and create a catalogue.
That would be so cool, mcdesign, I know what you mean. I have loads of templates and finding what I am looking for is almost impossible. But I don't think what you are looking for even exists. If it does, let me know, I would love to get hold of some utility like that.
Thumbshots.org only creates thumbnails for sites listed on DMOZ and for sites that have paid a service fee, and the sites must be online. In this case I want something to create a catalog of templates ins specific directories on my hard drive together with the thumbnail from the index page. Some of these came from online free templates [which might have had a thumbnail] some are from purchased or cheapy sources, e.g. from eBay. Some of what I have received is good [some very good], most is junk, but weeding through it is too time consuming.
If you just want to view thumbnails and browse you can use www.picassa.com which is free. If you need to save the thumbnail to put on a webpage then this might work http://www.ornj.net/software/webalbum/ Ross
There is an unlimited pile of software out there to create thumbnals, and generate HTML pages. But they all require the input of a graphic image, so you can have it search a directory, find all the .bmp .gid. jpg etc. and create a thumbnail for each one. What is needed is the ability to grab an html, and feed it to a browser to parse and display it, then grab that displayed image, convert into a jpg, and then scale that down to make a thumbnail image