How To: Create a Thumbnail For Each Post and Display On Your Homepage

Have you ever noticed blogs that feature some of their top posts using a thumbnail (picture), rather than simply displaying a link to the post?  This is a popular trend around the blogosphere, and the use of images seems to help attract traffic to these posts.

WordPress Garage recently wrote a post explaining how any WordPress user can do this entitled Giving each WordPress post a thumbnail, and display the thumbnail on the homepage.  I recommend checking this out if you are interested in setting something like this up on your WordPress blog.