As blogger’s and more importantly marketers, we want visitors to our sites to get the full effect of our blogs and sites.

If you’re like me and a lot of other blogger’s, your browser of choice is FireFox. When we designed our blogs or websites it probably didn’t occur to us to test our sites on other browsers. Should we load our site on a different browser, it is probable that some unpleasant surprises will appear.

Most websites are based on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a method that allows blogger’s to have more manageability over the appearance of the pages, making sure everything is consistent throughout the site.

Unfortunately not all browsers infer CSS commands the same way, creating discrepancies such as misaligned sidebars, overlapping text and the like. The only way to solve the problem is to test your website on the many different browsers that people might use to access it.

Installing a version of every single browser out there would be time consuming, to say the least. What if you could find a service that takes screen-shots of your site in different browsers and report them back to you?

That is exactly what Browsershots.org does. And best of all, it’s FREE!! All you have to do is  type the URL of your site, select the browsers you want to test and wait a few minutes to see the screenshots. The service includes all the versions of IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera and you can even select different screen resolutions. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

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