Testing your web site design in different browsers.

Cross browser compatibility is surely one of the biggest nightmares that a web designer has to deal with.

Theres nothing worse than spending hours on a design, only to find that its layout is all over the place when you open it in a different browser.

As well as different brands of web browser……
There are still plenty of punters out there on the web, that are using older versions of browsers that dont support newer W3C standards.

IE6 in particular has always been a thorn in my side.

With around 20% of vistors to my site still using Internet Explorer 6.
To me, it still seems worthwhile to get it to be cross browser compatible.

Recently I was searching through a design forum looking for answers and  asking a question about …you guessed it.
Cross Browser Compatibility. The moderator of the forum didnt even bother answering my query and simply stated
” I stopped coding for IE6 years ago”
luckily I manged to fix the problem and didnt need his help when it got down to business.

So when should you stop worrying about browser compatibility??
It really is totally a matter of your own personal choice.

I use and recommend browsershots.org to test all  my new designs and wordpress themes.
It can be a little slow at times loading the screenshots…but it is FREE!!
Browsershots.org gives you the choice of testing your site in over 100 browsers.
You can also pay for a priority account, for around $30 U.S a year.
Which is really cheap if your going to be using it a lot.

This will give you  much faster loading screenshots etc

http://browsershots.org/

I hope you find this information useful.

Dan

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