How Can I Test My Website With Ie6

i worked on a website in the latest firefox and then presented it on a machine that just had ie6 (and it looked horrible). is there anyway i can test what it will look like in IE6

Solution 1:

Get Microsoft Virtual PC (it's free). You can download images with IE6, IE7, and IE8 for all your wtf-microsoft! debugging needs.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

Also, don't trust IE8 compatibility mode.

Solution 2:

Here is the link to the VPC images from MS for testing in many OS and browser combinations

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en

Solution 3:

You can upload your website to some free hosting provider. Then use http://browsershots.org/ to test your website in almost all the available browsers (incl IE6).

The website will take screen shots of your website.

Solution 4:

you can try

http://browsershots.org/

http://crossbrowsertesting.com/

and the one i like most 'https://browserlab.adobe.com/index.html#'

Solution 5:

I have a testing PC in which i have IE6 installed. And i check the pages on that. I recommend that this approach is the best as testing on IE6 itself is the best.