My Blog Sucks at Internet Explorer 6
Have you tested my blog at IE 6? If not yet, then test it now. You will definitely hate my blog after you have seen it. It is such a mess! This might be the reason why my Google Adsense earnings deflates. I don’t know how to fix it. The theme is so weird. When I change codes, it will be fixed in IE6, but will look bad in Firefox and vice versa. So again, my plan is to change theme.
Here’s how it look like in IE6:
and here’s in Firefox:
My Analytics said that my 60% of my visitors were using Internet Explorer and 35% of it is using Internet Explorer 6. It is a big percentage. So I think I do really have to change it. Anyway, not only that. I really don’t want to change the theme because other bloggers advised me not to change theme too often for branding and familiarity.
Check out the new theme on Sunday. It is not a unique custom theme ( I don’t have enough money ). It will be just a cheap premium theme but looks good 
I know how you feel about IE6. First of all, IE6 is such a crappy browser and shouldn’t exist anymore. Unfortunately, a lot of people still use it so we all have to be compatible with it. It’s such a pain to be compatible IE6/7/8/Firefox/Opera/Safari.
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@Ben - frogstr.com: So what do you think? Should I just ignore it? Anyway, this theme works fine in firefox and IE 7.
You should do something like Changing the theme?
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@Chetan: But it’s not that easy. I am already known with this theme
@Hussein: Tough question, but if 35% of your IE users (60%) are using IE6, it’s a good number. That actually mean that 21% of your TOTAL traffic is IE6. In other words, one reader out of five will go away. It’s a lot. I would fix it to be honest with you, I don’t think anyone can afford to loose 20% of their traffic!
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You don’t have to change your theme. What you can do is create a second style sheet called iestyle.css and upload it to the same directory as your style sheet. Then check out the link below and it will show you how to implement the use of a different style sheet for ie6.
http://www.thesitewizard.com/css/excludecss.shtml
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My blog has some problem in IE6 as well, fortunately not as bad as yours. However, I get only 4-5 IE6 visitors I guess.
Since your RSS box and the recent posts one has fixed width try those divs with its position properties.
Cheers,
Ajith
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yup. that can be tricky. it’s a good idea then i guess really to test one’s blog out with different browsers.
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I’ve already experienced this to many blog i found on the web… and I suggest you to recommend your subscribers to use firefox just like many blogs does..
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i attended the wordcamp just last month and one of the speakers, a coder, they were on the kill for IE6. There are a lot of flaws on the IE 6, one specifically when it comes to .xml’s. though, there are a lot of users of IE6, he advised that what’s best for coders like him and the convenience of users.. and that is to outphase IE6. heres hoping.
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@Ben - frogstr.com: that is absolutely true.. my bro is so angry at IE and when i told him that we use Internet Explorer in school he told me to say tell my teacher that Internet Explorer is a virus! Hahaha… of course i didn’t tell y teacher but i installed the firefox in our school PC =) Own3d!
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It’s Internet Explorer that sucks!
By the way, I caught you trying to update with a new theme!
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@Sly from SlyVisions dot Com: Ya everybody know’s that but still many don’t leave that IE and shift to FF easily.
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Not bad man… You managed to switch over to the new theme without much fuss.
Only issues I found are:
- The ‘SUBSCRIBE NOW’ may be changed to ‘SUBSCRIBE’ so that it fits into the button image. Otherwise it shows below.
- After I click ‘FREE TRAFFIC’ an additional half button image appears in the top navbar below ABOUT and ARCHIVES
- Single post view. It’s better to put the post title around H1 tags to SEO optimize it (Your theme has H3)
- The sidebar link colours may be made a little lighter so that it’s more visible in the dark blue b/g
- (Another small unrelated issue: Hostgator review link has title that reads ‘You tube’)
Cheers and Good luck,
Ajith
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Forgot to request you another thing… If possible pls send me your all in one seo pack settings. I am struggling with it and hence disabled the same.
Ajith
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@Ajith Edassery: Great suggestions given there for the new theme!
Btw Ajith, what problems are you facing? I can also help you out if you can exactly tell the problem.
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Dont worry substance matters rather than form.
Changed theme again, it’s good now?
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wow. nice theme. i like it. Simple and professional looking. kudos hussein
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@Ajith Edassery: Thanks for the tips.
I like the new theme man! It looks clean and nice.
so… people still use IE? OUCH
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See we know that what’s the quality of EE and its 6 so its poorer. But still don’t ignore it, try to change the dimensions of the theme cos there are many fools who still use EE 6 though I don’t know why ?
@Chetan: Chetan,
I enabled the SEO pack finally… one issue is wrt to the keywords. By default it takes only the tags as single post keywords. Any idea how to add more to that? ie. I want the tags as keywords + five to six other keywords appended to it.
Cheers,
Ajith
@Ajith Edassery: Why not add keywords manually.
@Sly from SlyVisions.com: you are absolutely right.. the color looks clean but there are still some work to be done.. just like this box… scroll down and you will see that the color have dis appeared.. it should matched
but it;s just a little problem :)i still like this theme 
normal but pretty good and loading so fast^.^
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@Escoofield: It’s because of the commentluv check box.
Thanks!
how come they want you to keep the footer link if you already bought the theme? i dont see any explanation for having their link present on a premium theme..
but nice theme btw.
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@Hussein: I am trying to add keywords via All-in-one SEO pack (manually added keywords for homepage and generated keywords for single posts)
@Hussein: Oh.. hehe i didn’t know that^>^ well.. like I said
it isn’t very important. i just mentioned something to say.. Oh.. I didn’t know that you bought this theme 
but why don’t you delete their link?.. i think it is the reason why you buy wordpress themes..
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@hinlalato: I don’t know to them hehe.
@Ajith Edassery: I can’t see your problem
This theme is better, a breath of fresh air.
@BM: Lol nice words.. hahaha… My theme in my blog is so polluted.. it was white before and now it turned into grayish color
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Most things do suck in IE6… one of my client recently stopped supporting it on their huge site.
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