Hey, are you a web designer? If you are, then this cool site is for you. I am sure that if you are a web designer, you will face tons of problems with different browsers. So browsers (like Internet Explorer) don’t follow standards and this will cause headaches and problems for you when you design your website. Or for some browsers some CSS will not look right, or the position will be out or the alignment incorrect. Some just plain ugly on certain browsers! You don’t want your visitors to think that you are a crappy pathetic web designer, don’t you? What we usually do is to install a whole lot of different browsers to test out our designs to ensure that most major browsers look okay. But then you have Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera and Safari to install, that’s a hell lot of browsers and a big waste of time and effort. Worse still, you have different operating systems to deal with and it will be next to impossible for you to get different operating systems and different browsers. Guess what kind of nightmare web designers have to face!

So I will now introduce to you Browsershots. Basically, what it does is take snapshots of the site you are designing viewed from different browsers. This way, you can see how it looks like in those browsers without any additional installation. They have different computers which will do the screenshots for you and you can easily test out your creations. You can choose the screen size (so to test which screen looks best for your site), the colour depth, which versions of java and javascript, flash and so on.  So it’s pretty configurable and flexible. Not bad. And the computers (which provide all the screenshots) are all run by volunteers.

I think this is a great service for web designers. Although I won’t say it’s perfect (for example, when I need to test out my designs, it will be for different pages instead of just one page and it would take too long to wait for the snapshots to be uploaded), it’s great to be able to ensure major browsers work with your web design. I am looking forward to a service which allows you to surf on different “simulated” browsers, that would be just great!