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It works in IE 6 and Firefox. But it didn't work on Opera. Any element can be made transparent by adding this code to your css or page styles. #yourtag{background: transparent;}

I agree with you. But it's not too bad to design a new layout from sometime to time not every time. It let's you to experiment with your creativity. I design themes for wordpress. When I get fed with my current theme I'll pack it as a download and design a new one. It will get the same treatment as the one before. The nice thing is to have a theme switcher with some themes different from each other. Like a minimal theme and a colorful theme with some nice images. Orange and grey looks cool on a white background.

It's yet the beginning of the storm season. USA will yet have to face the worst. They will have to keep the relief efforts on track while bracing for new hurricanes. I just couldn't believe that hurricanes can go this devastating. Maybe because of the stategic position of the affected areas. New Orleans in the Missisippi delta. In a place like that flooding will occur. They should have a plan to prevent further incidents of flooding. Maybe a few more lakes and evacuating lowland areas will do. It's no wonder. The tsunami hit areas are going to take ages to recover. But tsunami was a sudden thing. And in this hurricane there were plenty of pre warnings. The Americans had time to evacuate. I wonder why they didn't do that.

That's interesting. Actually the effect in billboards is that it can increase accidents due to loss of concentration when driving. That's an equal dangerous cause as mobile phones. Well those billboards can't be stopped in this commercial market.The idea that after viewing erotic images people can go blind for sometime is really new. But we can see that the reason is that the mind goes blank or lose concentration (or completly concentrated on the image) and it takes some time to recover.

I like the idea of the free energy device going GNU/GPL. In this constant war of opensource vs M$ and the rest, opensource will win at last. People like the idea of something "free". Releasing anything free is the best way other inspiring people can get hands on a project and improve it.FEDs are nice. But I can't understand the idea behind that. It completly defy the laws of physics of today. There can't be free energy, there must be a source. From E=mc2 the source of additional energy must be mass, but I can't imagine how mass is reduced from hydrogen atoms or molecules, Even it happens the mass content of the closed system should be nullified by time.I think this is an experiment in the road map towards nuclear fusion as a safe and reliable source of energy. They are trying to build a safe alternative to fossil fuel and risky nuclear fission reactions. Fusion is the process employed at the sun to release energy. It would give us a near unlimited source of energy because the universe is mostly hydrogen.

I would advise you to dump frames. They are too old fashioned. It's better to shift to tables. But even better if you can shift to standards. Use divs and css. With frames you can get the scrolling effect. And you can do that in css. You can make the page to scroll while another element say the menu is fixed. You can do it by: #menu{position: fixed;}Sadly that is css2 which doesn't work in IE. IE is an old fashioned browser freezed in time and looks like to be struck there forever. If you are developing web pages. Quit Frontpage and use a decent editor, a text editor if you are comfortable. And remember to check your pages in Mozilla then after it works correctly check with IE and add some hacks to tweak. KHTML based browsers passed the Acid2 Test. Wow That's something new to me. Opera couldn't render that face correctly.

Todays browsers are mainly categorized as standards compliant and not. The only non standards compliant broeser out there is lame ol IE. Using CSS 2 specification is no wrong and by using hacks you can get the effect nearly in IE. The best process is develop the page to look good in standards compilant browsers like Firefox and other gecko browsers. Then use hacks to make it look good in IE. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ You may find some nice tips in the above site. I sometimes use css3 specifications in my sites. Mozilla renders the attributes selection and also border radius. So you may get links to external pages in different colors and rounded borders in mozilla but IE would ignore link coloration and also show borders square. That doesn't do any harm because the IE users doesn't know that mozilla users are having a better experience. Actually standards supporting sites around looks same in todays browsers. A careful design will make a presentable site to all browsers. Tables add up to the size of your pages. The use of divs and css to style them gives you pages which load fast and small in size. (less bandwidth consuming too) Toady the only things which visit websites are not browsers. There are screen readers, small screens (palm tops) They see pages differently, but using liquid layouts without tables you ensure that they also can visit your site. Also css gives you a mindbogling array of designs limited only by creativity. Check these articles about tables vs css http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (uses poor M$ site to explain why not tables and how M$ should improve) https://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/ And the endless options of css designs. http://www.csszengarden.com/

It's cool. But I'll need a hardware update before playing. ;)Lara is the hottest among game characters. Maybe it's Angelina Jolie who made her hot. ;)Did you see that it's still rating pending.

If you try to explain what is internet to someone from the 1900s, They would not believe and say it's the most weird thing they have heard of.You must remember that the situation today is not much different. More than 2/3 of the world have not even heard of internet to use it. They think it's too weird.For me the most weird thing in the internet is the way it evolves. It surpasses natural evolution. Maybe we should name it iEvolution

Thanks for your encouraging comments. I agree that there is no linkback from the blog. I'll fix it when I get some time. Meanwhile I have updated the blog template with a design of my own. I was in a euphoric mood. (oh not on crack) That's why the colors are bright and warm. Please check it and give your ideas. I hope to release it to the public as a theme for wordpress. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Sometimes ago I used dreamweaver. But then I shifted back to handcoding. I use css for styling pages. So coding the page by hand will give a better control when writing the stylesheet. I tried to view my hand coded pages in dreamweaver and it made a total mess of the structure by adding yellow buttons for each comment I make. The coding view was better. But now I'm used to handcoding that I'll never look at WYSIWYG editors. A good texteditor with syntax coloring, a helper for css, and a color sampler and maybe some code references are all what I want. I use emeditor as my text editor. You should really check out stylemaster. It's a powerful css editor with previews. That really made my work easy. https://www.emeditor.com/ http://www.westciv.com/style_master/ Well for graphics I use Fireworks and Photoshop.

It's great they are updating firefox. As I read, the Firefox 1.5 beta will only have bug fixes and no other notable features. I normally don't update firefox as they release new versions. I updated to the latest version because it supported RSS. And thunderbird I'm still on 0.8!Right now I'm downloading Thunderbird 1.0.6 It looks promising.Die hard firefox users might not shift again. But some are likely to switch to IE if M$ introduces RSS and tabs in IE7. Just because they are lazy to dowload another browser. Mozilla should take that note and be a step ahead of M$ by introducing some new features. Still Firefox doesn't have the power of Opera browsers. I would like the day they make me shift to firefox from opera.

I'll recommend you use Emeditor. It's the best in my opinion. I use it to view source of web pages and other files. I'm a handcoder so I really appreciate it's syntax coloring feature. Also it loads as fast as notepad. https://www.emeditor.com/ If you want to convert text to printable formats you should use pdf. I'll recommend txt2pdf for it. It's not another printer like pdf converter. But a real program. http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html

It was in the news last month. He was addicted to gaming. He also quited his job to turn into full time gaming and played World of Warcraft until he was killed from stress. It was from stress and lack of rest he got a heart faliure. As the news report on TV said, he had only 3 hours for rest and food each day. That was really unbelieveable. I can't think that a game could go that addictive to make people play like that and die.That man should have some mental problems. Anyone sane will never quit their jobs to game.

Please review my site http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I hope there are no 404 links. I also have some articles uploaded. The color scheme looked nice to me a few days ago. Now I'm thinking it's too lame. Please suggest your ideas.