What Platform Do You Design For?
Author of this post: Jen Huls | About Blog Authors »
When I first started doing web design, you’d see sites with the text “This site best viewed with….” I always took exception to this because I’ve been a Mac user for some time and this usually meant the site I was visiting wouldn’t work for me.
I make it a point to make sure every site I design works on as many platforms and in as many browsers as possible—it isn’t only common sense but good business practice. There are tools that help with doing this if you don’t own both a Mac and a PC—though with Intel Macs, there isn’t a reason beyond price tag to keep you from having both platforms available to you.
Both of the services below take screenshots of your site in different browsers and on different platforms. It’s a good tool to have in your arsenal.
• Browsercam [http://www.browsercam.com/] – Pay Service
• Browsershots [http://browsershots.org/] – Free Service
May 7th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
[...] Once you’ve decided which devices and platforms to test on, there are a number of free tools to help ease the testing workload. Some of these have been covered on this blog before, but here are a few more: [...]