How To: Testing Your Blog in Multiple Web Browsers
September 27th, 2007
This is the fourth of a series of posts designed to discuss ways to monitor and improve your blog’s performance.
Once you’ve gone through and adjusted your code, it’s a good idea to follow up your changes with a quick browser check. Instead of manually downloading and installing a bunch of different web browsers, this can be easily accomplished by going to BrowserShots and enter your blog’s URL.
It will take a little bit, but Browser Shots will actually display how your blog looks in all selected web browsers. You’ll want to focus primarily on IE6, IE7, Firefox, and Opera. Most other web browsers are based on either Internet Explorer 7 or Gecko, which is the Firefox engine, so they should look fine if they work for IE7, Firefox, and Opera. This is a good habit to be in to ensure that your changes didn’t cause any display problems for certain web browsers.
If everything looks good, then you’ve had a successful spring cleaning and hopefully improved your blog’s performance!
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I tried this site some time ago, but unfortunately no screenshots appeared
I gave it now another URL to see if anything will appear now
Hi Kyle. I’ve jut subscribed to your feed. Liking the blog a lot. Thanks.
I thought I’d mention another useful tool I often use called MultipleIEs (do a google search) which allows you to run multiple versions of internet explorer on a windows machine. It’s really useful for debugging CSS.
I hate when i see my site appearing diffrent in diffrent browsers . It can be so painful to fix such things .
browsershots.org is a site I’ve been using a for a few months. It has saved the day on a couple of occasions.
You’d be surprised what information it can throw up. Once you find out which browsers don’t work you should then check your stats package (like Google Analytics) to see how many of your readers use those browsers.
I found out a few months ago that my site was broken for IE6 after some site tweaks I made. I thought everyone would be using the latest IE7 version but when I checked my stats I found over 1000 visitors a month were still using IE6. I quickly patched this problem up!
I’ve used browsershots before and it is a great way to see how your site looks for different browsers. It definetely saves the hassle of downloading all of those programs.
Chris – I’ve had that happen before. Sometimes it can take a few tries.
Neil – Glad you choose to subscribe! Thanks for mentioning MultipleIEs. It looks like a good site.
Madhur – It would be so much easier if IE would start using the Gecko engine, but they won’t, so I guess we just have to get everyone to quit using IE!
It would also help if everyone kept their browsers up to date.
Dean – Yeah, my work uses IE6 still because many of our web-based internal apps won’t work on IE7 correctly.
Webd – It has saved me on several occasions as well, but then it just opens up the problem of figuring out what the problem is. Hehe!
I’ve had my site broken on IE for at least 5 months. When I did the first phase of my redesign and checked browsershots, everything was fixed. Talk about lucky haha.
@Kyle – No problem. MultipleIE is great for development on a windows machine – but Browser Shots looks REALLY useful.