Fun Tool to See How Your Site Looks to Mac Users
Today is the first day of work for our new Web Applications
Development Manager Mike Minarik. So last Friday, I nipped down the hall to his office-to-be to see if it was stocked up, spiffy and ready for him.
There was a problem with one of the desk drawers, so it’s a good thing I checked. But that’s beside the point. The biggest thing I noticed when I got there was not one but two glossy new computers.
One was a PC and one was a Mac. A gargantuan, oversized Mac at that. Totally unfair. I don’t even have a Mac, and I’m President of the company. When you start work here, you have to choose one or the other. It’s one of those keeping-costs-on-this-planet rules the accounting department trumpets.
“How come he gets both?” I asked. “That’s what he asked for, and you said to give him anything he wants for his computer,” came the reply.
OK, so it does make a lot of sense. Every Web department should be strewn with multiple computer types … the better to test your site with. Unless you can see your site the way users may see it (including with a mediocre-sized screen set on low resolution), you can’t run a site properly.
On the other hand, I happen to know of a newish, complimentary, online tool that you can use to see what your site looks like in both Mac and PC. “Can’t he just use that?” I asked. Well, no, that would be cruel to take away a computer when two have been promised.
But, if you’re on a tighter budget than apparently we are — or perhaps having to approve new designs when working off location where you can’t get to both PCs and Macs, this online tool sure is handy.
Here’s the link:
http://browsershots.org/
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