Comments on: How To Effectively Test Website Design and Functionality

By: Aleks

Aleks — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:01:33 +0000

Have few sites with same problem, this plugin help me a lot, thank

By: Simulation pret

Simulation pret — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:53:38 +0000

Thanks a lot for showing us this plugin. It seems really useful and I will definitely try it.

By: Busby SEO Test

Busby SEO Test — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:43:12 +0000

thanks. now I can test my web in different browser so quickly.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:14:51 +0000

you can actually go to https://browsershots.org/ to test your website design in at least 100 different broswers to heck how your websit looks like

You can visit my website http://www.oxotrade.com
I use this tool to correct several bugs when above website giving some screenshots about my website..

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:22:35 +0000

Thank u Ann !!its very useful

By: Jordan M.

Jordan M. — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:35:06 +0000

Fat Man, that addon literally views it in IE, this plugin is for spoofing the user agent string that is sent to the server to see how the data that is sent to different browsers differs, such as the data that googlebot receives.

By: Fat Man

Fat Man — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:03:41 +0000

I use a firefox add that lets me right click in a window and view the page in IE.

By: Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:03:57 +0000

Great idea for using that, Ann! I would have used it more to see what cloaking and such is showing to SEs, but this is pretty neat.

An important thing is to click on every link on your site. When I launched my site, there were plenty of bugs to work out and it took a lot of navigating by me before my coder had it all cleaned up.

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:16:46 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up, Qwerty!

By: qwerty

qwerty — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:22:51 +0000

Actually, that plugin doesn’t affect the way a page appears in your browser. What it’s designed to do is to send your server different information about which user-agent is requesting a file. You use it to check if the site owner has set things up so that the server will deliver different content to different user-agents (such as googlebot).

If you want to see how your site looks in different browsers (and yes, it’s very important that you do that), there are browser emulators out there, but the best way I know of is to actually install all the browsers you want to check.