Goals
Establish an overall goal for your web site. Who will your audience be? What information do you want to convey to this audience?
Targets
Which of the following will your audience be using?
- Web browsers (FireFox, Netscape, Internet Explorer, AOL, Opera, lynx)
- browser versions (2.0+ 4.0+, 5.0+, 6.0+, 7.0)
- platforms (Windows, MAC, UNIX, Linux)
- screen resolution - The most popular screen resolutions at this time is 1024 x 768.
Design your site so that it meets the specifications of the target (s) chosen. See www.thecounter.com/stats to see current statistics regarding the most frequently used browser versions, monitor resolutions and operating systems.
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August 31, 2008 at 9:49 am
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To compliment the above posting I thought people might appreciate information on automated testing tools (free ones). Feel free to contribute your favorites to this thread or comment on the ones I have listed below.
Anyway for almost every site I build I use the following tools:
To check site speed and broken links on site entry:
==> http://www.octagate.com/service/SiteTimer/
==> http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ (I use this one most often)
==> http://www.webscale.com/
To verify a site works in many browsers:
==> http://browsershots.org/
For a host of misc. tests:
==> http://www.iwebtool.com/tools/
Happy site development!