In my quest to make Bread Milk Digital a rich user experience, I have been seeking a Wordpress plugin that can create website thumbnails AND embed the thumbnails as images in each post.
In an earlier post, I revealed the Websnapr Wordpress plugin . This plugin creates thumbnails that only appear onscreen when the user ‘hovers’ over a hyperlink. It is a great plugin, but because the thumbnails are ‘hidden’ from the user, this plugin doesn’t add much to the visual user experience.
Why?
In simple terms, people love pictures. Furthermore, when pictures (or as they’re often referred to on the web – ‘images’), are placed tactfully within text, they assist in breaking up text into bite-sized chunks. This means that the end-user will be more likely to enjoy reading the text on your website or blog rather than baulking a the site of a text-heavy page with no visual appeal and running away in the opposite direction.
So with this knowledge in the back of my mind, I was still seeking a plugin that would efficiently enable me to break up text using website thumbnail screenshots generated on the fly.
And here it is, a brand new shiny plugin for Wordpress called Homepage Thumbnails with PicDonkey. The results speak for themselves – just see the image below which literally took only 2 seconds to embed into this post.
Not bad hey! You’ll see this plug-in being utilized frequently in future posts on Bread Milk Digital. If you own a blog of your own and care even the slightly bit about your blog’s user experience, I would recommend getting your hands on this plugin. It will save you hours while providing your readers with the visual stimuli they crave to remain engaged with the article.
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[...] sooner had I written my recent post about Homepage Thumbnails with Picdonkey plugin, did I receive this email from ShrinkTheWeb, one of the leaders in developing applications that [...]
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Feb 01 09 at
7:10 am
Thanks for the heads up on Homepage Thumbnails with PicDonkey, it's actually exactly what I was looking for.
Stuart Conover added these pithy words on
Jan 27 09 at
3:18 pm
No probs at all, I'm always happy to help. Just so you know, http://www.shrinktheweb.com has also just come out with a similar plugin to the PicDonkey one that I mentioned – I haven't tested it yet, but it also might be worth checking out. If you do try it, let me know how you go….
JakeThePeg added these pithy words on
Jan 28 09 at
1:55 pm
Bookmarked that one as well, probably won't have time to play around with them until this weekend but I'm definitely looking forward to seeing which of the two will be exactly what I need. It's amazing such a simple idea for a plugin hasn't been widely produced until recently
Stuart Conover added these pithy words on
Jan 28 09 at
2:31 pm
hey can you give me the copy of the script of the thumbnail with picdonkey. because when i download the link you gave the zip file is empty.. i dunno why.. can you pls send it to me?
pmzildjian@yahoo.com
zild added these pithy words on
Mar 07 09 at
2:30 am
