Designing Your Website for Browser and Platform Compatibility

In the early days of the Internet, we used to come across many sites advertising "Best viewed with Netscape" or "Best viewed with Internet Explorer" or some thing like that. Now a day, such labels seem to be rarer. Webmasters today put an excessive amount of effort to promote their sites on the search engines and elsewhere, and it's unlikely that they'll want to turn away any visitor just because he or she uses a dissimilar browser.

Along with this code of catering to the widest likely audience is the principle of designing your page for compatibility with different browsers, operating systems and hardware.

In this article, we will discuss four compatibility issues. They are by no means exhaustive, but they are at least starting points to designing a site that will be viewable by more visitors. Some of the points are below.

1. Screen Resolution Issues
2. Colour Limitations
3. Frames
4. JavaScript Availability