Browsershots is a free online tool that makes screenshots of your blog/site in different browsers. It’s a great tool to check if your blog shows up correctly on different browsers. It’s a bless for web designers who otherwise have to pay for paid services to check their designs on different browsers.
It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server where you can view them.
It tests on three different Operating Systems (linux, windows and mac os) and on different browsers on these three os’s.
You can also choose preferences on screenshot size, color depth, javascript, java and flash (for the last three you can enable them or disable them or leave it as it is). check it out http://browsershots.org
I’ve already used it to test my web design
usefull tool’s.. sure going to try it…
Thank you for a very informative post.
I don’t think I really need this because I use standard template on Blogger.
wow thats a nice tool.
I used to download each version.
Thanks man. :)
Well worth a look, I only wish I had it when I first designed a couple of sites.
I was using IE7 at the time and everything looked fine. It was a month later that someone pointed out the he headers looked missized in Firefox.
Thanks for the heads up.
This tool only works every other go for me. Half the time screenshots are simply not there. Shame i have no other options.
Very cool, I am definitely going to check this out.
Excellent Ades
When I make changes to my blogs through the css file I end up with a page that may work fine in my default browser FireFox, but I don’t always think of checking it in Internet Explorer.
I have had some long nights trying to figure out where I messed up.
I don’t use any other browsers so it would be great to see what anyone of my sites looks like without installing them.
That is certainly a worthwhile place to bookmark.
it is great tool..but i am not really good at css design…
Nice tool….one tends to work in one’s own favourite browser, and quite often glitches slip through that are glaringly obvious in other browsers. Thanks for sharing this free utility!
a great tool Ades! great find, cheers!!
Very nice tool, thank you…
Great tool mentioned here. There’s nothing worse than designing a new CSS layout and then going to your friend’s house who is using some alternate browser like safari and seeing your layout all messed up.
I’m 100% anti-Apple products but do so much site design work I actually bought an Mac laptop on eBay to test the mac browsers. I could have saved that $700 !!!
We had a customer ask about Safari compatibilty with the sites that we design the other day. It was the 1st time in almost ten years that anybody asked that question!
Sorry to hear you went and spent all that money to check mac browsers, Dave…look on the bright side though, you can use this utility and put that notebook right back onto ebay!
You mean the same web page can display differently on different web browsers? I had no idea that happened. But then i have no idea about a lot of things :)
Yup, making your website display the same in the major browsers (IE6, IE7, FF) are one of the challenges of web design.
I was on the authority blogger forum when I first heard about browsershots.
I am glad I did, because at work, where I do a lot of my editing, I made a change to my theme which looked fine on IE 6, but was a hot mess in Firefox.
Now after making any changes anywhere, I use this website. It is great.
Cheers
scott
this is some pretty good information
This online tool will be very useful for webmasters because we all know that different browsers interpret the webpage source code in different ways and by that the same webpage is displayed different in different browsers. Thank you Ades for sharing this great online tool with us.
I completely agree Dave, that nothing can be more frustrating than seeing someone’s well organized blog on an alternate browser better than yours. Free online tools sounds appealing but generally, except for some I sometimes feel that paid ones are better than the free ones because nothing good comes for free.