Comments on: Sales Lost to Great Design

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:58:11 +0000

Been burnt by this a couple of times before – the ie6 page failed to load for one of my web sites – a dialog box popped up and the page didn’t display.

God only knows how much Microsoft have cost web design agencies in building their useless IE6 browser – what a headache it must be.

By: Lisa Bailey

Lisa Bailey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:33:27 +0000

I had a client this morning who’s website has needed tweaking for IE8 and in chatting I told him that a lot of people still use IE6. He was like “why? I get automatic upgrades from Microsoft”. Yes, but soooo many people in the world get scared of doing anything online, and so “upgrade”?! No thank you very much!

How much longer will we have to support IE6 for?! That’s 3 Microsoft browsers to support now!

By: UB

UB — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:39:33 +0000

I have used something called “IE Tester” < Google it + it’s free. It’s a browser that displays web pages on all versions of internet explorer. Good to check that your website actually displays correctly. We had a similar problem a while ago, out website button’s weren’t displaying!!

By: Jesse Owen

Jesse Owen — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:27:48 +0000

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By: Marc Gear

Marc Gear — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:38:48 +0000

This is a great post, its really important to make sure that your site works in the browsers your visitors are using. Don’t just take w3cschools word for it though – you should check which browser versions your visitors are by using your own analytics. Internet wide statistics wont tell you if 20% of your visitors are still using IE 5.5 on a Mac (god forbid)