Documenting page designs
A quick post before the Christmas break.
I recently came across Pearl Crescent Page Saver and I can see that it will be another useful tool to be used in 2008 when I’m working on template designs. Rather than just producing an image of what is visible on the screen, as happens with normal screenshot programs, it will include the whole of the web page. There’s also an option to run it from the command line, so it would be possible from a single command to create a batch file (or similar shell script) to capture a range of templates that I’m working on.
I’ve found that it has been very useful for documenting the evolution of templates & I can see that it will be handy for comparing different versions (e.g. how a template looks as plain HTML/CSS pages and when it is integrated into a system, or to ensure that there have been no side effects when upgrading a look and feel).
Ideally there would be a similar tool for Internet Explorer as you would then be able to track the majority of the users - and it other browsers would be included it could then be used for cross-browser checking.
