Internet Explorer Version 6

Why is that in Internet Explorer 6 my website shows up all chopped up?  Now I have not done any type of major changes to the template that ProductCart comes with.   All previous advice I have been given have said that I would have to modify the code to get Internet Explorer to work, however in ProductCart's documentation it states "Internet Explorer 5.x and above for the PC is fully compatible."  Can anyone help me on this?

Website: www.ShopAtDean.com
Hosting Company: Jolt Digital

Thanks,
Mike

I still can not get IE6 to work with my website.  I know there are a lot of talented firms out there that can help me solve this issue.  To anyone who can help me fix this, please send an approximate quote to my email address mdesatnik@gmail.com.  I am looking to get this taken care of ASAP. 

Thanks you in advance,
Mike

Hi Mike,

We visited your site using IE 6 using the handy tools at http://spoon.net/browsers/
It looks like there are a lot of incompatibilities, from the top-navigation to many other elements of the page.

IE 6 now means a small and ever decreasing segment of the Internet population. There are various statistics out there, but they mostly point to 10% or less of the Internet population.

Trying to make a modern design work with IE 6 is an absolute nightmare due to how non-compliant IE 6 was with CSS standards.

Rather than going nuts trying to make things behave properly in IE 6, we believe that at this time it is an acceptable solution to detect IE 6 and redirect the customer to a page that invites the user to download another browser. You can then provide links to IE 8, FireFox, Google Chrome, etc. The page could look something like this one: http://www.earlyimpact.com/browser_not_supported.asp

Here is some ASP code that you can place in your "header.asp" file to accomplish this:

'// START Browser detection and redirect Dim pcvBrowserDetect pcvBrowserDetect = lcase(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) ie4 = instr(pcvBrowserDetect,"msie 4") ie5 = instr(pcvBrowserDetect,"msie 5") ie6 = instr(pcvBrowserDetect,"msie 6") if ie4>0 or ie5>0 or ie6>0 then response.redirect "http://www.yourWebSite.com/yourWebPage.html" end if '// END Browser detection and redirect

Replace the redirect URL with a valid one.

Place this code in the top section of header.asp just before the closing ASP code tag (i.e. just before the first instance of "%>").

We hope this helps.

Ok, so I added the code. Created a different landing page for those who need an updated browser version, and tested it in the "Browser Sandbox" like you suggested, and now the web page won't load.  Is there something I left out?

Thanks,
Mike

The quick and dirty method is to add this right at the top of your header.asp <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>