Barry’s World

If you build websites like me, you’ve probably wondered many times what other people think about your sites.  Do they look good?   Do they provide valuable and interesting content?  Do they offer something that make people want to come back time after time?  Obviously, content is got to be THE most important aspect of your website.  If it doesn’t provide something of value to your visitors, then they’ll never come back.  Also, without good and unique content, it will be very difficult to achieve a good ranking with the search engines.  Let’s face it, without good rankings with at least one or two of the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc., you’ll never get much traffic to your site.  Over the next few weeks, I’ll discuss several ways in which you can provide good content for your websites so that you can not only achieve good rankings with the search engines, but also to turn website visitors into repeat visitors.

Today, I’d like to tell you about a really handy tool that I discovered a while back that has been extremely useful to me when building a new website.  As you know, there are literally dozens of different web browsers available for people to use in surfing the net.  Of course Internet Explorer and Firefox are two of the most common, but there are many other lesser known browsers such as Opera, Chrome and Safari that have a faithful and growing following.

Every browser is a little different in how it renders a webpage and because of this, a particular website may appear visually different when using one browser as opposed to another.  Just because your website looks great in Firefox, doesn’t mean it will look okay when using Google Chrome.  If you’d like to see how how others see your website, then please try out this extremely useful website called Browsershots.org.

Browsershots.org

Browsershots allows you to enter the URL of any website (yours or someone elses) and get a screenshot of what the site looks like when using any of nearly 100 different browsers.  It may surprise you how your site may look through the eyes of another browser.  Check it out today.