Recently I succeed in the making thumbnails of each and every website in the Newcastle Music Directory. As it turned out, it was truly non-trivial excercise, and it took a lot longer than I had imagined.

In case you do not know, there is a definite distiction to be made between the making a thumbnail of an image, and making a thumbnail of a website.

The former involves reducing the dimensions of a single image so that it can be previewed at a smaller size whilst the latter involves rendering the componants of a webpage to produce a single image that represents what the user sees when browsing that page...

Please follow this article to read the details of my trials and tribulations to automate website thumbnails.  I did succeed in the end!