I learned an important lesson, and thought it was important to pass it along to all of you. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about being able to find your email address on your blog, well this is along the same lines as that post.
I use Google Chrome as my web browser, and I must say I love it! Google Chrome is really smart, too smart actually, it corrects all the “mistakes” that otherwise I would see while browsing the internet. One of the most common mistakes is coding. Google Chrome is so smart, it knows that there is a mistake in the code, and fixes it, so I never see any weird wingdings or code in any of the websites I visit. Although this sounds great (and it really is), there is a down side to using it.
The other day I was on a computer that uses Internet Explorer as the web browser, I visited my website and was shocked to see the number of “mistakes” and coding errors that appeared on my website! I could hardly believe it. I know my blog isn’t perfect, I have a number of typos and could probably straighten a few things out, but for something so obviously “wrong” on my blog, I must say I was disappointed in myself.
So my lesson was this, check your blogs on another browser regularly to see how your blog looks. Even though the layout may look great on your computer, but for some reason, it doesn’t quite “work” on another browser. You can use browsershots.org to see your site on numerous browsers.
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I love Chrome, I been using it for awhile you know I did forget that you don’t see the errors..I need to check my site thanks for the browser shots link. I like the fact that Chrome safe guards my computer and lets me know about phishing, trojans and malware at some sites.
I like these post I know I get busy posting and forget the small things that really matter!
Internet Explorer is beaten up nowadays, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, they’re getting better than Internet Explorer.
I’m a web content editor and I too had to learn this the hard way. Chrome and safari usually have similar scripting differences. So frustrating though.