Fri 20 Apr 2007
Test Your Website Designs In Different Browsers
Blurb by Shaun Anderson (Hobo)Are you losing customers because of a poor website design? Do you realise that your site will not and cannot look the same in all browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari etc? That some people with certain computers might not be able to access your killer sales tool?
Why not put your web address in this little tool at browsershots.org and find out!
Note – Your website won’t look the same in all of these browsers, but if it looks crap in most of them you might have a problem!
Pay close attention to Internet Explorer, Firefox & Safari (all versions) – these are the browsers most use. Note you may have to bookmark the page and come back 4 hours later or even run the test a couple of times to get all the screenshots.
For web designers this is one of the best tools I have came across this decade as a time saver!
PPS – But don’t give your web developer too much of a hard time if your site has glitches in the latest browsers! Just ask them to fix it…. ethical web design companies will probably oblige.
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I noticed on internet explorer, my site looks a lot different. This is my first website so I’m pretty much a newb, but I would appreciate if I could figure out a way to make the page the same size (without being able to scroll left & right) on internet explorer like it already is on firefox by default.
Thanks,
Dan Baker
I am looking for a program or a website that will allow me to see my site across browsers. Can you refer me to a source?
From a design point it’s imperative that you check in each browser. Nothing worse than thinking you have created a work of art only for it to look crap on a browser you hadn’t check out.