A Little Rant - IE Issues on Some Blogs

When designing a blog or website I often ask myself 'Will this display correctly on IE?' Internet Explorer is an antiquated browser and frankly Microsoft needs to up their game so that it accepts all the lates programming languages. but for the time being we are stuck with it.

A site that displays beautifully in firefox and Chrome often looks jumbled and unreadable on IE. As bloggers we want as many people as possible to read our content. Internet explorer still accounts for more than 20% of internet users and ignoring these people would be a big mistake. Testing your site in all browsers ensures that you can spot any problems immediately. Many bloggers display one theme for non IE users and make IE users click on a separate link on their homepage - DO NOT DO THIS! Internet users are notoriously lazy and many will leave your site rather than click on a separate link and doing this basically says you don't care about IE users as the linked IE version is usually formatted totally different and most just use Blogger's dynamic views default layout (ie Ugly!)

If your not a designer there are literally hundreds of themes out there that are compatible with all browsers. Any good designer would design a theme that that is cross browser compatible. I was actually discussing this same subject with a blogger yesterday and she actually unfollowed a blog that wasn't designed for IE. Catering for all internet users is a hallmark of good design and good blogging practice.

Rant over!