As every web designer experiences, we spend hours developing a website that looks perfect in all browsers. Once it’s all set, we cross our fingers and end up cringing at the horror that shows on our screen when we test for IE6. We curse the customers of our clients who don’t know better to upgrade and we curse the IT departments of major corporations that swear by it. However, one day soon, IE6 will no longer be in use and web designers everywhere will rejoice. The decline of IE6’s usage is due in part by users who voluntarily upgrade to newer browsers, users who buy new computers where IE7 or IE8 is the default installation (or those who are smart and switch to a Mac ) or by websites that simply do not support IE6 anymore (like mine) and in turn educate users and suggest to upgrade.

There are a handful of sites out there offering free website add-ons and pop-ups to display an upgrade message to an IE6 user, some of which are branded or require java script to work. But none of which fit within the design of the site.