Hi All, Is there a site where I can simply type in a URL and have it give me screenshots in multiple browsers for FREE please? Thanks in advance, Ziffa27
The free one I know of is called browsershots.org *edit It will not work if you have a robots.txt which denies all! Temporarily remove or edit your robots.txt if you have one that denies all! The disadvantages of it: for me and many others, but not everyone, it's very slow. For me in particular, I find that any requests for a Mac take at least an hour. So, I cannot use this service for quick testing, but I have used it to check for example Zapfino fonts in some header text, since I don't have a Mac and cannot run that font. Some of the screenshots don't seem to show the web page below the fold. The one I remember was Andreas' IE8 box... the other browser shots did show the entire page, where all the screenshots are pasted together automatically by a program. This is not exactly the same as what a user would see while scrolling down your page though: if you have a position: fixed footer for example, it will look strange in the browser shot and not on a real user's computer. You cannot test Flash, Javascript, or any CSS interaction such as hovering over links or CSS tooltips. You cannot check things like forms, only rendering. While you can choose different screen resolutions, you cannot see what your page does on a living breathing browser when it is resized (for instance, Opera and IE8 have bugs dealing with resized browsers when you have a 100% height model page, and IE in general has some resizing and zooming bugs). If browsershots runs fast enough for your location, you can use it to get static views of how your page renders. Do not rely on it for anything else, and this includes colours as well! However it does have the advantage of showing different OSes, which is nice if you simply cannot have multiple machines for testing, and the service is nice for checking fonts and font sizes.