I am reading a book about how to create themes for Drupal. I am not a fan of Drupal. I got accus­tomed to working with Plone – a very user friendly alter­na­tive. Because of this, my expe­ri­ence with Drupal has been dis­ap­pointing. Like­wise, I am not having any fun with this book. The best thing I can say about it is that it makes a good sleep aid.

How­ever, the book has pro­vided one useful ref­er­ence: Browser Shots. This free web ser­vice will pro­vide screen shots of your web­site using a wide variety of web browsers for Linux, BSD, Win­dows, and MacOS at var­ious screen sizes, color depths, and with var­ious fea­tures (such as Flash) enabled or dis­abled. For someone who doesn’t have access to a 5 com­puters run­ning 90 dif­ferent browsers, this is an incred­ibly useful service.

How­ever, this is one fea­ture of this web­site that my Drupal book did not men­tion: the web­site seems to have estab­lished a gallery of web­sites it has cap­tured. This gallery allows users to rate the web­sites, and presents the top-rated web­sites on the home page. This is a great resource when seeking a little web design inspi­ra­tion. I already found one web­site (for a web devel­op­ment com­pany in Aus­tralia) that has given me food for thought regarding the web­slingerz web­site I put together last year. I will def­i­nitely be coming back to Browser Shots often to look around and get ideas.