When I develop websites or blogs, I always test my work on a number of different browsers and resolutions. Currently I load them in Internet Explorer 7.0, Firefox 2, Google Chrome and Apple Safari. This has always seemed a good selection and to date has served me well.

Recently I discovered Browsershots an excellent free service which makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers, enabling you to test your website or blog in almost 50 different browsers (less for Unix or Apple platform) and no that’s not a typo!


Just make your choice of browsers for your relevant operating system, e.g. MS Windows

choose from this selection of browsers

You can also select …

  • from a range of screen resolutions from 640 to 1,680 pixels wide.
  • whether Java or Javascript is enabled.
  • Color depth ranging from 8 bits per pixel to 32 bits per pixel.

Just enter your website or blog URL, make your browser selections and click on Submit and it goes to work displaying the results. You can hover your mouse over the screenshots to see a larger version and you can even download all of the results in PNG format inserted into a single zipped (compressed) file.

What a great service for any budding web designer :-)

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