Users typically view your website using a web browser. Each browser interprets your website code in a slightly different manner, which means that it may appear differently to visitors using different browsers. In general, you should avoid relying on browser specific behavior, such as relying on a browser to correctly detect a content-type or encoding when you did not specify one. In addition, there are some steps you can take to make sure your site doesn’t behave in unexpected ways.
Test your site in as many browsers as possible
Once you’ve created your web design, you should review your site’s appearance and functionality on multiple browsers to make sure that all your visitors are getting the experience you worked so hard to design. Ideally, you should start testing as early in your site development process as possible. Different browsers – and even different versions of the same browser – can see your site differently.
- Opera
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Safari
- Google Chrome
These are the most famous web browsers available. However, there are many web browsers out there.
Write good, clean HTML
While your site may appear correctly in some browsers even if your HTML is not valid, there’s no guarantee that it will appear correctly in all browsers – or in all future browsers. The best way to make sure that your page looks the same in all browsers is to write your page using valid HTML and CSS, and then test it in as many browsers as possible. Clean, valid HTML is a good insurance policy, and using CSS separates presentation from content, and can help pages render and load faster. Validation tools, such as the free online HTML and CSS validators provided by the W3 Consortium, are useful for checking your site, and tools such as HTML Tidy can help you quickly and easily clean up your code. (Although we do recommend using valid HTML, it’s not likely to be a factor in how Google crawls and indexes your site.)
Specify your character encoding
To help browsers render the text on your page, you should always specify an encoding for your document. This encoding should appear at the top of the document (or frame) as some browsers won’t recognize charset declarations that appear deep in the document. In addition, you should make sure that your web server is not sending conflicting HTTP headers. A header such as content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 will override any charset declarations in your page.
Consider accessibility
Not all users may have JavaScript enabled in their web browsers. In addition, technologies such as Silverlight, Flash and ActiveX may not render well (or at all) in every web browser. Customers visiting your website should download Flash Active X Plugin to view your website. As a bonus, providing text-only alternatives to rich-media content and functionality will make it easier for search engines to crawl and index your site, and also make your site more accessible to users who use alternative technologies such as screenreaders.
However, if you take our website design solutions we can take care of all these things. We are well versed in creating a Search-Engine-Friendly-Websites to stand out from the rest in this competitive world!
We optimize the websites more than 30 webbrowsers in different operating systems including Windows, Macintosh, Linux along with different versions of the web browsers. Since we have a dedicated team to take this Website Optimization, Macinfosoft’s designed websites stands out in a flock of websites.
