Ok, if you don’t already know, I’m a web designer for my day job. Just want to state that early because I’m about to go on a rant. If you’re using internet explorer right now, go to the top and click on ‘help’ and then click on the last one in the list (should be ‘about internet explorer’ or something). If your version number is 6, please for the love of God, please upgrade. Or better yet go here.

Let me put it this way… if you were driving a 1985 ford tempo, that only started half of the time and someone offered to upgrade you to a brand new BMW for free, you’d take them up on it right? Well, if you’re using IE6, you’re essentially sticking with that piece of crap on wheels. Firefox is free. I’ll repeat that… FREE!

Here’s a little background. Several years ago, the web was a strange new place and companies were making browsers on a whim that made things extremely difficult to develop for. A bunch of really smart guys (and maybe gals, I don’t know) got together and decided that in order to improve your online experience, there should be standards that browsers should adhere to in order to reign things in and make things more streamlined for developing technology. Microsoft, in their infinite monopolistic wisdom, decided to completely ignore these standards and do whatever the hell they felt like. Simply because they could, and people would keep using their crappy product no matter what because they’re Microsoft.

Well, they’ve come out with a somewhat less crappy product for you to enjoy called Internet Explorer 7. Oh yeah, and it only came out 2 YEARS AGO! Seriously, people. It’s time to upgrade. Or you can upgrade even further and use Firefox. It’s not just for the benefit for us web designers, but also for you too. Firefox has a bunch of really cool add-ons that do a bunch of really cool things.

So here I am, dangling the keys to that brand new BMW… are you gonna keep driving that piece of crap ford tempo, or are you gonna join me in the 21st century on a wonderful journey across the internets?

Ok, I’m done now. I feel better.

-Brad

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