Test Your Website in Multiple Browsers
February 28, 2008
You know the rule. Build for Firefox, fix for Internet Explorer.
What about all the other browsers?Are you really bothered about them? Well if you are, we know of a smart little app that makes your new design watertight.
Browsershots allows you to test your website in multiple browsers. Just visit the webpage, input your URL and wait for a couple of minutes. Unfortunately we can’t be held responsible for you putting the monitor through the window when you realise IE6 and it’s box model has stuffed you over again.
Oh the life of a web designer….
Website Grader Free SEO Tool
February 7, 2008
Website Grader is a rather interesting and useful (and more importantly free) online SEO tool brought to us by Hubspot. It works on a basic premise that you feed some simple information into it pertaining to your website and a clever little algorithm will generate a report for you, grading your website on a scale of 1-100. It checks such things as H tags, images with alt text, inbound links and more. Yes these are the kind of functions found on numerous SEO toolbars but for a quick overview of a sites usability, functionality and optimisation I think it’s a really handy tool to have bookmarked. Especially given that you can use the tool to generate a report comparing your site alongside that of your competitors, and if the tool finds any problems or deficiencies it will flag them and offer advice on improvements. Cool.
Check out the sample results page for a sneaky peak at the kind of stats available.