Let's cover what every person that works on the web dreads: testing and making their modern websites work on old versions of IE. We are going to talk about a number of ways to make this process less painful.

Did you know that Microsoft provides you with free virtual machines that have every version of IE installed on them? Well, they do, and you can download them from http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools.

Once you go there, you will notice a gray bar area Download a Virtual Machine. For Mac, Linux, or Windows. All these are free and when you click on Get Free VMs, you will be able to select a platform (Mac, Linux, or Windows). You can see in the next screenshot that Mac has been selected. You will also notice that you need to select a virtualization platform and you will be able to select from VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, and Parallels. All three of these virtualization platforms are great and I have experience with all of them. Let's just use VirtualBox because it...