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Ten days ago I wrote my 10 Most Stupid Client Questions Ever post - and on the same day Tara from the Graphic Design Blog submitted the article to StumbleUpon. I had no idea that she’d done this at the time though!

Over the course of the last ten days the article has received more than 32,000 views (edit: more than 45,000 as of July 1st), with about 80% of those coming from StumbleUpon users! The rest came from being on the front page of Spotplex, the Upcoming page of Digg (with 7 diggs) and the second page of Reddit - in addition to the usual traffic from Technorati and the like. At one point I was getting an alarming 10 views per second!!

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Do you design web sites of any type - from blogs to full-blown corporate e-commerce solutions? Perhaps the only site you design is your own one? Well, one of the problems that faces every web designer at some time is that of testing your site on all the major browsers. In case you’re interested, this is how my current visitor’s browser useage breaks down:

Having three of four versions of each major browser installed at the same time and on the same machine is not only an administrative nightmare, but damn near impossible too! If you’re lazy like me then you probably end up testing on just the very biggest ones - I typically test in IE6, IE7, Firefox 2 and maybe Opera. What about all the others though - the MacOS browsers (particularly difficult if you only have a Windows machine) and the Linux builds?

Well, I’ve discovered [via thepaperbull.com] an easy way to not only test your site on the usual suspects, but also to see what happens to it on other platforms and more obscure browsers!

Browsershots.org allows you to enter your web address, select from an enourmous list of browser/platform combinations, choose screen resolution and plugin availability - and then a little while later (dependant on how long the queue currently is) will generate screenshots of what each of your selected browsers saw when they hit your site!

I think this is an incredible idea - and like all good ideas I’m amazed that this is the first time somebody’s done it! Oh, and did I mention that this is a FREE service?!? Well, what are you waiting for - the end of the browser wars?

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