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Test your website design in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera & Safari

Test your web design in different browsers

Using the fantastic tool above (located at at Browser Shots) is an excellent way of testing how your website design looks accross different browsers and screens / platforms. It is an essential element of good website design that you test your website and how it looks or 'renders' in as many web browsers as possible.

Internet Explorer is by far the most widely used web browser, but unfortunately, is not w3c standards compliant, so you should test your website and how it looks on the current version and perhaps as far back as version 5 or 6 to maximize browser compatibility with your website.

You should also test your website out in:

• Netscape
• Opera
• Safari
• Lynx
• Firefox

Remember! it is impossible to design a website to look exactly the same in all browsers. So use standards compliant code. This ensures the future proofing of your website and puts the onus on web browser developers to make their applications standards compliant.

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