Web Design Tool Shows What Others See on Your Website

Have you ever wondered what your website looks like to other people with different browsers, operation systems, screen sizes, etc.? There are literally thousands of combinations which makes it nearly impossible to design a website to appear properly in all combinations.

At the very least, you should be testing your new website with the "major" combinations of browsers, operating systems and screen sizes. Even tackling only the latest major players, however, is still very difficult for most organizations.

In steps BrowserCam. BrowserCam will check any website from a multitude of these combinations and take an image of the web page so you can see what it looks like from systems other than your own.

While there is a charge to use the system, they do offer a free trial for up to 24 hours and 200 screen shots. This will limit you to one screen size and a subset of the browser/operating system combinations. It seemed to have a few hiccups in the nearly 200 screen shots, but I still found it to be a website design worth checking out.

Rob Reed
Terrakon - a sales and internet marketing consulting firm