A new friend of mine from Blog Catalog asked a blogging tips question that I wish more bloggers would ask and find the answer to. I have copied and pasted my blogging tips and links to blogging tools for him/her below because I’d like to share them with others too.
I viewed your blog using both IE7 and FF 2.0.0.12 and it displays well. The only problem IMO is that your front page is overburdened and takes to long to load. I would suggest that you limit the number of posts on your front page. The more images and embeds and scripts one has running on their front page the longer the page takes to load. Also note that if you have more than 100 links on that page some search engine spiders will stop indexing it. So once again limitation is required.
Setting that aside, if you want to see what your site looks like in different browsers then here are some tools that you can use to do that.
www.browsercam.com/Default2.aspx - Cross Browser Compatibility Testing Tools. See your web design on any browser on any operating system. Check javascripts, DHTML, forms and other dynamic functionality on any platform. Not just yours. Use a bank of testing machines remotely to test your website.
browsershots.org/ - Allows you to test your web design in different browsers. Usually takes between 20-45 minutes for a report.
www.browsrcamp.com/ - Allows you to test the compatibility of your design with Mac OS X browsers.It’s important to remember that many people surfing the web are using outdated browsers. It seems IE6 is the most common one in use at 30.7%. You can confirm the figures here www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Root recommends http://totalvalidator.com
“By far the best and fastest return of images.”
Happy blogging. :-)
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Very timely! I just discovered two hours ago that IE7 was messing up the bottom of my sidebar. It had probably only been that way for a day, but still, I was abashed. Now I’m wondering about Safari…
I can’t wait for IE8 – but if you’re right, adoption is likely to be s l o w.
Safari is problematic. Hopefully 2.5 which will soon happen will fully support it. Thanks for dropping in and have a great week. :-)
How do you put the Digg and other buttons at the bottom of each post?
Hi Ed Darrell,
Thanks for the inspiration. Your answer is found in this post: WordPress.com: How to add social bookmarks
Thank you for the information!
You’re most welcome. :-)
Check this out: http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/completely-test-website-errors-html-standards/2673/
As for Safari, Apple just gave me a version for Windows along with the latest update of ITunes, so I can finally see what my site looks like in it. Can’t see I’m pleased. It makes the fonts even fatter than IE. Maybe that’s why everyone goes with sans-serif – anything else looks hideous in two of the major browsers.
@Dave
I’m sorry about the delay but I had appointments with eye specialists and have not been online. Now the drops are wearing off I can see better. Thanks for the link. I prefer Verdana for exactly the reason you have stated.
We use the online http://totalvalidator.com.
By far the best and fastest return of images.
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And this is the reason I rear omecoolsiteboggingtips.com. Shocking posts.
I don’t know what you mean.