Use Different Web Browsers

When ever you are running websites, blogs, e-commerce platforms such as eBay, Amazon, Etsy and you play around with the templates please take some time and check them in the main web browsers such as :-

FireFox

I.E. (last few builds)

Chrome

Safari

Now while I have always known this, and 75% of the time do test either that day or other the next few days when I launch a new site and blog I have never ever seen or had a problem. Maybe this was because someone was looking after me, or the fact that I stuck to the industry standards, I do not know.

The other day I was just “Chatting” to someone of FaceBook, and she was saying that her sales had gone down over the past few months, so I asked her for her URL. The site was on eBay, I was using Firefox. The site loaded and I could see she had a custom made template on a basic store. I scrolled down and oh dear, it was real bad.

I told her so, she just laughed and said no I am wrong her site looked great. At this point you have to think, well maybe she likes all the black swearls and stuff, you could not read anything the links were all hidden by these black things. It did look good but it was too much.

I asked her what browser she used she did not know – So my mind went into over drive- I checked Chrome looked real bad. Then I opened I.E. and it looked beautiful. It was well laid out. I told her this and she contacted her web designer.

At present I am not going to share the site, it is not fair on the person concerned. But please if you use templates, do blogs, use different web browsers, see how things look and at times you will be shocked. Also while we are on this subject it is well worth your while to check your web stats, and see what browsers people are using, and then build your sites around these, and make sure they look great.

It takes up no extra space on your hard drive to use different web browsers, and again you may be shocked to find out some sites do not work in some browsers, so if you have ever wondered while a site looks real funny in your favourite browsers, check it in another and you may find it looks good in one of the others. Again this is because people have not done their homework, and checked all browsers.