New Screenshot Features
As part of a release this week, we rolled out an upgrade to our screenshot/preview image features for your widgets. It’s not a huge feature, but we’re pretty excited about it since it ’s been pretty commonly requested by our users (and we love user requests).
First, the basic context. When you register your widget, we take a screenshot of it (using the configuration it’s specified with). We use this screenshot when we need to show images of your widget. This includes when we show it to you in the console, but also when we publish your widget to various galleries (automatically, of course). There are several different sizes for the image we need, unfortunately, as many of the destinations have totally different standards here. So, the whole situation is a little more complicated than it needs to be.
What we’ve added is the ability for you to control, with a pretty high degree of granularity, these images. You can crop and size each image however you’d like, and you can even specify your own image URLs if you want to do things like show company logos. All in all, this set of features should let you do just about all you’d need to with respect to controlling your widget’s image representation.
Check it out in the Widget Console (Make It -> Screenshots), and let us know in the forums what you think.
Happy widgeting!
