Cross Browser testing is a night mare for web developers and designers. You website might work fine in IE7 but it might not work well in Firefox or even IE6. So if you are choosy about your website and want to work into details to make it perfect then you have to test you web site on various browser.

So here are three great ways to test your website

1. Install All Browsers in Your Computer
2. Use web screen shot tool
3. Use a handy tool

Install all web browser in your computer.

This option is a little tough in begining as you have to get all the browser you want to test your site on but time saving as well cause you can test your website locally on your computer. Unfortunately for his option to work you would have to install stand alone version of the browser, these are the version that donot require installation and work right out of a folder or a pen drive. The reason for stand alone browser is that if you have IE7 installed then there is now way you can make IE6 work with it simultaniously without any problems. So if you want IE5, IE6, IE7 as well as Firefox1, Firefox2 and various version of Opera you need to get stand alone web browsers.

The best place to get them is from Browsers Evold. Click here and get them.

Pros of this technique:

1. You can test you website offline
2. You can debug while tesitng thus more efficient
3. The results are 100% accurate.

Cons of this technique:

1. Javascript donot work on it
2. There is no session so you cannot log into a dynamic application

Use Web Screen Shot Tool

Browser Shots is an online service that has the list of approximately all web browsers, it is an online service and provides screen shots of your website in all the browser you want to conduct test on. It is free and open source service created by Johann C. Rocholl you go online tell the URL of your website select the browsers you want to see the screen shot and submit and your request goes into a que which on it turns makes screen shot of your web application and presents it to your. So check this out

Pros of this technique:

1. Huge list of browser to choose from
2. Works for dynamic sites as well

Cons of this technique:

1. Works only online
2. Gives only screen shot and impossible to resolve issues
3. Takes allot of time to generate screenshots some times even a day or so if the load it allot.

Use a handy tool

So when we talk of handy tools we have two options :

1. Browser Cam
   Brwoser cam lets you access testing machines where you can test your web applications in diffrent browser  & devices. You can test on any platform i.e. linux / osx / win . Check javascripts, DHTML, forms and other dynamic functionality on any platform. Not just yours. Use our bank of testing machines remotely to test your website. But the cathc is its not free rather quite expensive and packages start as low as $19 per day to $499 per year. check it out
   
2. IETester
   IE Tester is a free web Browser that allow you to render you HTML documents in IE8, IE7, IE5.5 on vista and XP. It is in Alpha phase so there are bunch of buggs and the results are not 100% acurate. Secondly its for IE testing only for others browser you have to look your own way. Check IE Tester out.
3. IE TAB
   IE Tab is yet another IE facility that helps embed IE 6 into Firefox. IE Tab is an add on for firefox. It is handy if you want to test you website in Firefox & IE only unlike stand alone application in IE tab you can see javascript  and can also log into the sites as it maintains session as well. Get IE Tab for Firefox