Chrome Extension Must Haves: the Web Grabber

Chrome Extension Must Haves: the Web Grabber

This is the first part in a series that will showcase essential Google Chrome extensions for bloggers and webmasters alike.

First up is the Web Grabber by vizio360. This extension takes thumbnail screenshots of websites or whatever you want on the page. After trying many online web based website "snapshot" services, I thought there must be a better way. Shortly after I can across this plugin and have found it extremely useful. I wanted to endorse it because -- i'm using it myself.

Adding thumbnails to your link can add a lot of value to your site. Visitors will be able to see what they're clicking on which will help facilitate them clicking on it. It also adds a level of attractiveness to what would otherwise just be a plain text link. Additionally it can even drive a bit of traffic to your site if the thumbnail gets hits on google image search.

The Pros

Take website snapshots for thumbnails quickly

Capture just a portion of the site or the whole thing (only captures what is visable)

Quality is good

Save multiple images

Delete the ones you don't want

Download all your captures as a zip or seperately as a image

The Cons

Saves as jpg (some could see this as a negative)

Takes a few steps to get your capture but nothing exhausting

The Recap

All in all this is exactly what I was looking for since most of the website capture services are sluggish at best this little extension does the trick. I'm hoping there will be a new version of this extension because it shows a lot of potential. Here are some example thumbnails I took.