Hang on there, just stop what you're doing. Do you see how terrible the website below looks? That's because the browser you are using is horribly out of date. Internet Explorer 6 was first released on August 27, 2001. Since that date we have developed much better ways of making websites and your browser doesn't support them. This isn't the only website that doesn't work properly in your antiquated browser. The longer you delay updating your software, the more websites will stop working.
If you don't know anything about computers or websites, please visit Microsoft's website and click on the 'download' button to update your browser http://www.microsoft.com/ie.
If you do know a thing or two about computers there are many more options open to you. Please visit the following links for a list of current browsers Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Firefox, Opera.
The base theme used to style wabbit42.com was twentyten (WordPress 3.0 default). The CSS for this theme was stripped & edited to style this website. All graphic design was created by Adam Lappin (with exception of Twitter, Digg, YouTube, etc, logos).
Lifestream plugin (http://www.enthropia.com/labs/wp-lifestream/ @wplifestream ) was used to display current social network activity on the home page. The default theme for Lifestream was edited by Adam Lappin.
The "No Widget Category Cloud WordPress Plugin" (http://sivel.net/2007/10/no-widget-category-cloud/) is used pretty much as-is to provide the cloud of categories displayed on the thoughts page.
Two Google plugins are being used. One for Google Analytics (http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/) and the other for automatically submitting a site map (http://www.neoegm.com/tech/wordpress/plugins/qtranslate-support-for-the-google-xml-sitemaps-generator-wordpress-plugin/).
Google Latitude provides city-level location on the home page. The code used to pull this information from the Latitude JSON feed was written by James Cridland (http://james.cridland.net/code/latitude.html @jamescridland) and hacked down for personal use by Adam Lappin.
The embedded font (displayed on modern non-silly browsers) is Cantarell which is hosted on Google Font Directory. This font is not used for some titles on Internet Explorer 8 due to poor font rendering of Cantarell when using shadow effects. In most cases this font has pretty much been disabled on Internet Explorer due to terrible, awful rendering.
In order to achieve an inclusive design, all users must be catered for. This includes Internet Explorer 6 users. If a user who does not know what a browser is visits a site that displays an error message asking them to follow a number of steps to update their browser, it is much more likely the user will simply leave than follow the steps. I understand & partly agree with this line of reasoning. However, making design decisions that cater for user ignorance is not something I see value in on a personal site. I favour the reasoning of user education to ensure their time spent here is an enjoyable, bug free (as much as possible), & safe (as much as possible) experience. Alerting users with the information that they must update their browser to view this site can bring great value to those who are willing to spend the time doing so. Therefore, users of Internet Explorer 6 encounter a message asking them to update their browser. This is also why I use a lot of PNG images that have transparency without implementing an ie6 workaround. Browser education FTW!