Life as a website designer (and much more) in the Outer Banks of NC is great. While the winters are to be the worst, I hardly leave the house, so I foresee this Winter as being a productive one. My website design services are based on one thing: Designing and building a website for a client that works well and provides a useful tool for the company. Any good website design should work, once developed, in any browser and on any platform. Enter IE6. Any web developer versed in CSS will tell you that Internet Explorer 6 is by far the worst and most annoying browser out there. Even though Microsoft themselves have warned users that it is insecure and you should upgrade, people still use it.
Many sites will pop up a notice that warns IE6 users only: “Internet Explorer 6 was released in December of 2004. By continuing to run Internet Explorer 6 you are open to any and all security vulnerabilities discovered since that date. In March of 2009, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 providing greater safety and ease of use.”
Even though a small percentage of users still use it, often times that one client still has IE6 loaded on their network and sure enough find the issues. So that creates a whole lot of extra work for the website designer / graphic designer and the web developer. It can limit the design and increase costs in the long run. So what’s this one tip you have that can make the web a better place? (I call upon the KISS method here)
1 Tip on How to Make the Web a Better Place
- Upgrade IE6 if you still use it. Please. For all of us web designers and web developers, please upgrade. You’re missing out on so much and causing so much stress on guys like me just trying to make a living as an Outer Banks web designer.
Join the fight to rid the web of IE6:
http://twibbon.com/join/IE6-Must-Die
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