Expression Web SuperPreview is a visual application for debugging a website in multiple IE versions easily.

It can display a website in IE6, IE7 or IE8 side by side or as an onion-skin overlay and use rulers, guides and zoom/pan tools to precisely identify differences in layout.

Besides debugging how it is rendered in means of the look, the application also identifies the element’s:

• tag
• size and position
• applied styles
• location in the DOM (Document Object Model) treeso you can quickly fix the errors

P.S. It requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 to run.

Every web designer tries to create a draft of the design that the client can easily imagine "how it will be after it is online".

This is a set of Photoshop templates of Firefox (Mac & PC) & IE to help this process.

Every browser template has 3 resolutions ready:

• 1280*1024
• 1024*768
• 800*600

Title, address bar, scrollbar & favicon spots are also easily editable for a better presentation.

Automatically created website thumbnails have a wide usage from links in a website to a web application presenting URLs with their thumbnails.

Using a website thumbnail generation service is generally a time-saving decision both for the website owner (as it’ll be automated) & the visitor (for getting a better idea about the link).

Here are 10 free website thumbnail solutions including a "how to on creating your own".

Considering you’ll probably use one of these services in the future, make sure you bookmark the post.

SnapCasa

A popular website thumbnail provider that has both free & paid plans.

Free plan is limited to 300,000 requests / month which is good for many websites. And, it is ad-free.

Usage is very simple, Just mention the thumbnail’s parameters in the img tag & that’s all. Like:

<img src="http://SnapCasa.com/Get.aspx?code=[code]&size=[size]&url=[url]" />

ShrinkTheWeb

A powerful & free thumbnail service with 250,000 request limits / month & offers more limits in the paid plans.

For the free plan, no custom sizes can be mentioned & inner page thumbnails are not supported (but supports most of the ppular sizes). On the other hand, the service is ad-free and works with JavaScript / Flash embed.

websnapr

websnapr offers free website thumbnails & puts a "powered by websnapr" phrase over the images. There are paid plans without imitations and more features.

There are ready to use plugins for Wordpress, Drupal & more that can be found here.

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IETester is a free web browser allowing you to browse websites with the JavaScript & rendering engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

You can also find a very nice tool for Internet Explorer named Debug Bar which includes a toolbar and a development bar +  a IE JavaScript debugger named Companion.js inside the same website.

It seems that canvas tag ( <canvas> ) will be very popular as it allows drawing graphics using scripting.

Canvas tag is supported in Firefox, Opera 9, Safari by default to allow 2D command-based drawing. But it is not supported by Internet Explorer.

ExplorerCanvas is a JavaScript that you can insert into your pages for bringing canvas functionality to Internet Explorer.

To get the ExplorerCanvas, click here.

For more details about the canvas tag, click here.