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End Internet Explorer 6 – it’s old!
Do you want to contribute make the internet a happier place? Then start spreading the word to upgrade from IE6 to the latest versions.
The IE6 browser is one of the most out of date browsers currently out there and many web designers struggle because they don’t display code the way it should. For example CSS style sheets doesn’t look the same as it does in IE8, Chrome or Firefox.
There are still many people with old versions of Windows that has IE6 on it and they don’t update their browsers. Or sometimes a web designer will design a website for a client and when they view the website with IE6 it looks all skew and wrong.
What can you do as a web designer and how does it work?
There is this nifty piece of code that you can install in the header of every future website you will be designing. How this code works is when a visitor with IE 6 visits the website, the code puts a grey matte at 75% transparency over the whole website and displays text telling them to upgrade to either the latest version of IE or the better browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera.
How do I find this code and where do I install it?
You can either go to the developer website: http://www.end6.org/eng/source/
Or you can paste this piece of code between the header tags of your website:
<script src=”http://www.end6.org/js/eng_end6.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
Or you can download the script directly if you want to host it on your own server.
So by adding this piece of code to all of your websites you can make your life easier as a web developer and make the internet a better place.
Read moreWebsite update for Sa Roof Tite
What to do?
Sa Roof Tite is a roof security company based in Johannesburg. They offer a product that secures your roof tiles from burglars, storms and high speed winds. Most burglaries are done through the roof of your house and getting your roof secured by Sa Roof Tite will definitely prevent your possessions from getting stolen from your home.
Three weeks ago we received a request from SA Roof Tite to update and fix their current website as it was not completely functional. The website is coded in .asp but is a plain HTML website with only 4 pages. It seriously needed fixing as not all the pages linked to each other, the menu was different on each page and not even the contact form worked. So what we did was fix all the back end coding, added all the basic SEO features, add external CSS style sheets and also placed back end coding for the form to deliver messages from the website.
Google Analytics tracking and Google Listing
The website was not listed on Google at all which resulted in no traffic from any search engines. We then added the website to the Google search engine and also other search engines like Yahoo and business directories. We also installed Google Analytics tracking to track traffic coming into the website. This fix is only temporary to get the website up and running and fuctional.
New CMS website design
We will be designing a new CMS website for Sa Roof Tite in the near future that will have a great new attractive look to it and neat functions making it more user friendly and search engine friendly. We will also be adding a couple of great features that will make the new website dynamic and updated with company news.
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