http://www.websnap.name Remember back when you wanted to take a screenshot of a website? It took ages first of all you would have to do the print screen, then you would have to copy it into photoshop, then compress it then upload it! It would of taken ages to do each website in your directory or search engine by hand. Now you don't have to! With WebSnap you can get free thumbnails of websites at the size you want, hosted on our servers and easy to use inside of your website. So why use the WebSnap Service over Alexa or Thumbshots? We have many reasons why! - Neither Alexa or Thumbshots allow for custom sizes except large & small! - If Alexa \ Thumbshots does not have a thumbnail they show a promo image - Alexa and Thumbshots only take photos of the homepage, we do ALL pages We are hosted on high speed US servers and use the same servers for our internal projects using this service, so you know that our service update will be very high. We don't have paid sections, we don't charge you if you go over a certain number, we do everything we can to make the service perfect and our users are important to us. There is no need to sign up and give away any details, just use the simple API URL. There is only one thing we charge for, if you want us to do a custom edit of your script we can and will, the only charge will be for the time it will take us, and even then you will be shocked how little it is.
For the next week you can ask us to put it on your website, and we shall do it for free, we can do it on any site that has MySQL and uses external urls, eg phpLD or a custom script. See our phpLD demo: http://www.diginews.name/phpLD/index.php?c=1
As said in my other topic I am the developer so I think it suits me best to help you out with that question, mainly it will break even give or take. Adsense clicks on our main site will bring in some money but this was not created just for external use, I create many sites with Drew and it enables us to use this tool ourselves, so we need it and might aswell offer it to the public. We also might get a few donations. Maybe . It would also be nice if sites that use it give us a linkback somewhere.
We recently added a option which I feel will really help people who use our service, now if we don't have a thumbnail you can include your own custom "No Image" image. To use this: http://websnap.name/create/beta.php?url=URLOFWEBSITE&x=200&y=200&th=URL OFIMAGE.jpg Code (markup): For example http://websnap.name/create/beta.php?url=http://www.diginews.name&x=200&y=200&th=http://www.imageupload.name/uploads/1280create.jpg Code (markup): Also changed if we now force a 800x600 browser window, so the images will not look squashed. Speed upgrades and a better que system. Still 100% free! Monthly hits: You are given a unlimited amount of visits a day, however if your site is of a very large volume we may contact you to arrange a paid system to increase speed for you. Custom Preload Thumbnail: When we don't have a WebSnap to show your visitors we show a small "generating" image. This can be changed for free to any image you decide on, all with a simple URL prefix. Retake new screenshots (monthly): We will see what websites are viewed more than 100 times per a month and retake screenshots of them websites, thus our screenshots are always upto date. Custom thumbnail size: You can change the thumbnail size to any you want. Some services limit what sizes you can use, however this does not allow for you to design your site how you wish. Priority: We do not have levels to make the system faster, everyone gets the same speed, we think this is makes it fair.