Every time we see one of these fonts being used by designers, a puppy dies somewhere. And a cute little smushy one like this guy.

Do you want to be responsible for that? Your answer should be no. So designers, invest in quality Grade A fonts and realize the future of all smushy puppies depend on it.

Blacklisted Fonts

(aside from the obvious comic sans and papyrus).

IE6, blah, blah. Don’t worry, this isn’t another IE6 rant, though we must reprimand those still using it, “Shame on you!”.

We hate IE6 just as much as the next fool. Well, you’re only a fool if you don’t offer some friendly advice to those visiting your site that do still us IE6.

Here is a spiffy and uber easy solution to the IE6 conundrum.

See our live IE6 page here

Place the following into a new file and save as “jquery.ie6blocker.js”

 window.location = 'http://yoursite.com/ie6'; 

Place the following in the head of your document

<!--[if lt IE 7]><script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery.ie6blocker.js"></script><![endif]--> 

Now you will want to create a separate new page within your site with the name “ie6″. Obviously you should include a message to all the friendly IE6 folks and also give them the opportunity to progress and upgrade by linking to newer relevant browsers. Style however you’d like. We kept ours fairly simple.

You are welcome to use our version

<h3>Welcome to the [your site] Internet Explorer 6 landing page.</h3>
<p>The browser you are currently using, does not support the [your site] website, along with a whole shabang of other new bad-a sites. If you want to get the full use out of this and other sites, you'll need to upgrade your browser. Upgrading to a new and improved browser is painless and will be oh so worth it. Plus, why show your age? IE6 is like so 2001.</p>
<p>ANY OF THE BROWSERS BELOW WILL WORK (CHOOSE ONE THAT WORKS ON YOUR COMPUTER)</p>
<p>	<a href="http://www.getfirefox.com">Get Firefox</a> - Mac &amp; PC<br />
<a href="http://www.apple.com/safari">Get Safari</a> - Mac &amp; PC<br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/chrome">Get Google Chrome</a> - Mac &amp; PC<br />
<a href="http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com">Internet Explorer 8</a> - PC Only<br />
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This is the first *cough* kinda tip we’ve posted. So if you think it sucks, have a better idea or maybe, quite possibly if it helps you, let us know.