Today we want to present some small but nice goodies of our Warp6 theme framework. We added additional layouts to customize several information pages. You are now able to configure and style your own offline and error pages. Also, you can activate a dedicated browser upgrade page which only gets displayed to visitors using Internet Explorer 6.
All these pages use the same clean layout and display a relevant headline with a short description text. Therefore, we have added a separate error.css file which defines the general error page style. This also gives you the opportunity to create your very own style for system messages like error codes and an offline message.
Error Page
Everyone knows the old fashioned error pages, they do their job, but they don't look good at all. Warp6 has a solution for this - your very own error pages. So when a visitor requests a missing page the error page layout will be displayed with the 404 error code and a description text.
Offline Mode
In case you change something big on your website, or you just do some maintenance tasks you can simply activate the Offline Mode. Warp6 will use its error page layout to display an offline message to inform your visitors you are currently updating your website.
IE6 Upgrade Page
It's the year 2011! Modern web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 are used all over the world wide web. The majority uses modern browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and the latest Internet Explorer 9 and there are only less than [12% worldwide](https://www.ie6countdown.com) who are still using the Internet Explorer 6 (which is about 0.5% of your website visitors). Like our previous theme framework, Warp6 has no Internet Explorer 6 support which means the theme will not look like it does in a supported browser. But with enabling the IE6 Upgrade Page you can tell the few visitors with Internet Explorer 6 that they are using an outdated browser and recommend modern browser options to them. As you can see the IE6 Upgrade Page layout uses the same error page style which is now part of every Warp6 theme.
What's next?
What do you think about the new error page style? That was our last teaser blog post about the new Warp6 features. Next is our first Warp6 based theme release on Monday, May 2nd. It will serve as an optimized and streamlined framework theme, and you can finally get your hands on all the new features. Stay tuned!
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