Subscribe Today!
Networked Blogs
Jun
3
I took a look at my Crown Point and Northwest Indiana bankruptcy lawyer website last night using my wife’s computer and realized that I was seeing the site differently on my computer.
My wife’s computer is a netbook running Windows XP. She uses Windows Explorer. I’m running Windows Vista on my laptop and usually use Chrome. What looked good on my computer looked pretty horrible on my wife’s system.
I went back and tweaked my page making sure to look at it using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Opera. I might download Safari make sure it looks fine for people using Apple’s browser.
It’s a lesson to learn. I’ve been spoiled using WordPress through the years. I always assume plugging content into a CMS will look fine. However, assuming doesn’t make it reality, so it’s always a good idea to double check what a site might look like using various web browsers.
If I get really ambitious, I might attempt to make a mobile Northwest Indiana bankruptcy law website that will look nice for cell phone viewers.
Comments
2 Responses to “Perception is in the eye of the browser”
That is so weird…I just had the same experience yesterday. I was using my iPad to look at my blog page and edit an existing post. I didn’t think to take it a step further like you did… I was pretty amazed at how good my blog looked in Safari. The only thing I can complain about is that I can’t use compose mode on the iPad…only html. I’m so spoiled.
I’ve heard many good things about WordPress but I’ve been chicken so far to think about migrating. Blogger has been good to me so far…and it is free. LOL
Running Win7 and Firefox on this machine… (an old macbook w/an external keyboard and one of David’s big flat screen monitors LOL) The kids laptop is XP because that is what OS we had left to load on it when we replaced the hard drive. This will be the first school year they will be actively working on the computer. I’m switching to a CDROM driven Math course. (Teaching Textbooks) It will probably respond better to XP anyway. I hope. :]
Now I have to go look up your blog on the iPad and see what it looks like in Safari…
Happy Sunday
Chris -
Checking cross browser is SO important, especially with the ongoing changes with browsers, you never know what will work one day and then won’t the next because of changes to a browser… Routine checks are always a good thing to keep in mind!
Just hope that no one visiting your website is using IE6 anymore… that’s when it gets scary