I haven’t tried this out myself yet, but I thought I’d share this with everyone having trouble with transparent images.  Hopefully this will help.

http://jquery.andreaseberhard.de/pngFix/

It’s a javascript alternative to fixing the transparency of images.  With this, you probably won’t need the iepngfix.htc anymore.

Hope this helps!

Now that the redesign is pretty much finished, I can start posting again. Today, I’ll talk about image mapping…in CSS! The result of this will look somewhat like facebook’s image viewer where people’s heads are outlined with a box. Of course, you’d need a pretty advanced face algorithm to find faces in a picture automatically, but I’ll just show you the box part.
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A nice way to implement you navigation is to organize it into tabs. Way back when, before I started using CSS, I used to make tabs the hard way…image by image. If you still do this now, then I’ll show you how CSS can save you a lot of time and effort.
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There sometimes comes a time when we realize that a plain color background just isn’t enough. Then we find or make this insane looking background that we just have to put on our page. Problem is, it doesn’t tile, repeat, well throughout the page. So to fix this, we need to use another background image that does look good when it is tiled.

I’ll show you a quick and easy, maybe too easy, way to creating this effect.

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Today I’ll show you how to stylize those blockquotes that are sometimes necessary in web sites.

Using the quotes that are part of the standard fonts can be boring. The way I’ll teach you uses images of any font’s quotation marks.

I’ll be using these two quotation images:

It’s nothing really difficult, but there’s a little problem with IE if you want to do this a certain way.

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