I don’t use Internet Explorer as my Internet browser. That is because Internet Explorer sucks. I have felt this way for years. My distaste for IE started several years ago when I started making a living as a web designer. I am not going to get into all of the details here as I have a more recent example as to why Internet Explorer still sucks.

The image above is a screen shot of my homepage to this site in IE7. Do you know what’s missing? If you are using Internet Explorer to visit my site right now you probably do not know what is missing. I will tell you. My sidebars are not there. They are completely gone. Also, the homepage stops about half way down the page. Now the crazy part is, if you click on any of the posts listed on my homepage and go directly to the post pages, the sidebars are then there, but not  on the homepage.

I tried updating to IE8 hoping that might correct the problem but it did not.

So, Internet Explorer still sucks.

If you want a much better web surfing experience, I recommend you do what I did several years ago and start using the Firefox browser. You can download it here.

Luckily, the majority of my visitors already use Firefox.

The image is a little hard to read. The blue part of the graph is my Firefox visitors and the green part of the graph is my Internet Explorer visitors. The good news is, the majority of my website visitors are seeing my site just as it was designed.