Today,  my friend Rarst who I am going to review on Monday because he won my quick contest the other day wrote an interested tweet. He basically recommended the following presentation by Google themselves:

Google For Webmaster

The guy/girl doing the presentation are a little boring, but honestly it covers A LOT of things and also answers A LOT of the most common questions. It covers topics such as PageRank, duplicate content, ranking, Google Webmaster tools, etc.

Have a look, it’s worth it. The presentation is divided in topics so you can just have a look at the topics you’re interested in.

First of all, I know it’s a shame, I last posted 4 days ago. That being said, I want to let you know about a tool I use a lot when designing websites. That little tool is called browsershot and what it does is taking screenshots of your website in a lot of different browsers. You know how hard it can be to test your design on IE6, IE7, Firefox 2, firefox 3, opera, konqueror, etc. This will make your life so much easier and you won’t have to run 30 different browsers on 3 different machines or call your friends to ask them how your website looks on their machine!

How it works

First, head to Browsershots website obviously.

Then, it’s pretty straight forward, you enter the URL you want to test and the OS/Browsers you’d like to test with.

Then, you just have to wait for the system to take the screenshots. The time to take them can vary, but it’s usually pretty fast. I selected a dozen of browsers for seohorror.com and the estimated time was between 3 and 12 minutes.

Refresh, see the results and back to work

You should get something like this in the end:

You can click on the screenshots to see real life size images and it is a great way to identify problems with other browsers.

Perfection isn’t possible

You will usually notice some glitch with some browsers, but don’t try to be compatible with all of them. I usually concentrate on being compatible with IE 6.0 & 7.0, Firefox 2.0 & 3.0, and Safari 2.0 & 3.0. These are the main browsers and it’s important to be compatible with all of them. You could also analyse your traffic and see what browser most of your users use, this might help you identify important browsers to be compatible with.