If you ever wondered how your website appears to a visitor who might be using a different screen resolution than you, check out viewlike.us.
Just key in the address of any web page and the tool will show you how that page will look like in different screen resolutions. You can test the layout using most common resolutions like 800×600, 1024×768 or even the iPhone and Wii browser.
Related: How to Completely Test Your Website
Which screen resolution should you use?
Experts suggest that website publishers should optimize their web pages for 1024×768 resolution as it is still the most common size. You design a page keeping the lowest resolution in mind and the layout will probably look good (and readable) in all the higher resolutions.
Google Analytics data suggests that a majority of visitors coming to Digital Inspiration have a screen resolution of 1024×768 or more but around 3% use a 800×600 resolution – that means they will have to use the horizontal scroll bar to read the content even if their browser is in maximized state.
Hat tip Chris Lyons.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/test-website-in-different-screen-resolutions/9490/
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Reader Comments
this is useful to me . thanks ~
Written by iSHiOK on 08.20.09
That really is an excellent site, Amit. Thanks for sharing.
Written by Viral on 08.20.09
As a fellow tech blogger I know how crucial it is to make the website as user friendly as possible. A tool like this is definitely worth the time using.
Keep up the great work!
Written by Hunter on 08.21.09
I’m not impressed by viewlike.us. It’s just a resizable iframe. Nothing much than resizing your browser window yourself. To know how your site looks in different browsers/resolution, you need more than that. Multi-rendering engines like lunascape can help.
Written by Anabel on 08.22.09
This site is not satisfying all needs of web design needs. but for the size option, this is good.
Written by amrita on 08.24.09