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Website Front-end Quality Control Considerations
A good web agency utilizes some form of quality control during the creation of their clients’ websites. Often, one phase of this process consists of putting the website through a handful of tests, typically towards the tail end of the project. These tests can include anything from checking the security of the database to how a color-blind visitor might interpret the design details. Since I am a lover of all things front-end (design, markup, and CSS), there are a few details that I always test to help ensure a good user experience for the visitor and to reduce browser inconsistencies.
Reduce Browser Discrepancies With an Initial Template
One of the biggest challenges that website designers and developers face is the nearly limitless amount of ways their design/layout can break in many of today’s web browsers. More often than not the design will look wonderful in a handful of browsers but terrible in another, and when the project requires all of those browsers to render the design without any flaws, it can become a real nightmare to figure out why one of them isn’t rendering the design in the same way as the others.
Because most web browsers come from different companies—Firefox comes from the Mozilla team; Internet Explorer comes from Microsoft; Safari comes from Apple—you can be sure that they’re created quite differently, and as a result, your lovely code isn’t rendered the same way from one browser to the next.
