Whilst working on some improvements to Rent a Gite in France, I decided to check that the changes I’d made the the theme I was using hadn’t broken anything in the various browsers, and I did this using a free tool called Browser Shots.
This tool is invaluable to website designers as it allows you to check how your website design renders on the various browsers without having to actually install them all.
This is important as not all browsers are the same: IE7 renders websites in a completely different manner to (the much hated by web designers) IE6, and even Chrome, Firefox and Safari have their differences. If you only test on 1 browser, you might be oblivious to a minor issue which is making your website unreadable on 70% of the internet population’s computers. I’ve particularly found this to be the case for ‘DIY’ websites I’m asked to look at, especially those created with cheap / free software.
So if you want to see how the rest of the world sees your site, head over to Browser Shots, submit your URL, and then review the screenshots you’re provided.
Multilingual Gite Websites with WordPress using WPML plugin
With the Euro hammering Sterling, more and more gite owners are looking to new markets to attract visitors. To do this, you need to be found in the right search engines, for the right search phrases, and then engage with the visitor in their own language to ‘seal the deal’.
I’m increasingly asked to design multilingual websites, but have found WordPress to be quite clunky for this purpose. The page and category structure doesn’t allow for easy creation of entire sub-sites, and until yesterday, the only solution I’d toyed with was installing a copy of WordPress MU (multiple user) and creating sub blogs for each language. Again, very clunky. Read More »