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4 Free Tools for Cross-Browser Website Testing

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How does your website look on Android and iOS devices? Do all your navigation features work on PC-based browsers? Will your media play on Apple devices?

Your users shouldn’t have to answer these questions for you. The best way to get a handle on your user experience is to test web pages through cross-browser compatibility tools.

These four utilities can simulate dozens of different browser environments, so you can ensure that your audiences get the best experience possible, before your website goes live.

1. BrowserShots

browserShots

Do you want to see how any website looks across an enormous array of current and obsolete browsers? This web app enables you to view image screenshots of any URL through the lens of dozens of browsers for Linux, Windows, or Mac.

You can travel back in time, and see what it’s like to experience your website on a computer that hasn’t been updated in years. Or check off browsers that are only currently relevant, so you know how your website looks on present technology. [Read more…]

What a good design means for a site

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Good design is important to me on a number of levels. But great design just blows me away. The key thing in bringing our partners on was great content, and great design. I want to talk about design a little and its implications on a technology blog.

First off the things I like about technology and how I wanted to bring that into perspective and apply it with this great design and why I chose the people to get involved in this. First off I’m a very simple person. And I’m not a picky person. I wanted to be easy to get along with. I like the design of simple technology. This design brings that out.

Some toys and gadget that inspire this design.
The Ipod is simple and easy to use and navigate. This design brings out a lot of that simple an easy to use functionality. This design is like no other I’ve seen out there. That was important to me. Also having the big footer at the bottom was important to me because I believe in bringing together all the content from the network so users could navigate on the fly. Much like being able to grab songs that you’ve listened to lately.

Our entire team but especially Chris put a lot of effort into this design, and it’s great to have him onboard to help us reach our goals.