If you’re anything like me, you will most likely need to check how a design looks in multiple browsers several times a day – Let’s face it, if a website is ugly in a client’s browser there very unlikely to purchase your product. Here are some funky and free services which makes cross browser testing a problem of the past.

IE NetRenderer – One of my favourite services, mainly because the rendering is real-time (so not waiting about) however (as the name suggests) the only browser family it renders is IE.

Browsershots – They have a lot of browsers running on several Operating Systems and loads of options (such as if you want flash/JavaScript enabled) though it can take up to 30 minutes to receive your screenshot.

A new contributor has joined our ranks on the XDnet blog, Mike Rogem! Hopefully we can see some helpful and interesting posts from Mike in the future, and don’t forget if you would like to contribute to the XDnet Blog please get in contact, just email admin@xdnet.co.uk for more info we are looking for people who have a reasonable knowledge of web stuff and can post some useful gems!

Dan,

XDnet Admin.