It’s not hard to implement a semi-transparent block by CSS in all modern browsers. The code is something like this:
.thisblock {
filter: alpha(opacity=65);
-moz-opacity: .65;
opacity: .65;
}
And in your HTML, you have something like
<div class=”thisblock”><img src=”someimage.jpg” />some text after the image</div>
Very eassy, right? It basically covers all browsers - IE7, Firefox, Mozilla, Chrome and even Opera. However, if you try IE6, it’s not working. Here is one little trick for that… add either width or hight to that div class, then you are done. So the fix will be
.thisblock {
filter: alpha(opacity=65);
-moz-opacity: .65;
opacity: .65;
width: 50%;
}
width can be anything, number, percentage, except “auto” or “inherit”.
With the above trick said, if you really don’t want to define the width or height of a block, but have to implement the semi-transparency in IE6, use <p> instead. With <p>, you don’t have to worry about width or height, because not like <div> which span across the entire row, <p> automatically wrap around the elements inside it, thus it got a specific width by itself.
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When it comes to free CMS, people usually think of Joomla, Drupal, openSourceCMS, etc. Yes, those are good CMS, and we have made a few websites by using those systems and they all turned out to be great in terms of usability. However, what impressed me the most is the open source PHP/MySQL based Wordpress. With a false impression of a blog CMS, it won’t come up to many un-geeky people’s mind when they want to have a CMS for their regular static page based website. However, as a web professional, I would strongly recommend wordpress as the first CMS choice for most of my clients, because it’s simply great and powerful to develop and use, not just as a blog CMS, but also in all. You can certainly use it for a regular blog free website.
One thing I have to admit is that I am not an active trend follower, which might not be good for a web designer. So when twitter has become a trend, I didn’t pay much attention to it, until one day I found it’s already everywhere that I can’t even avoid it any more… Yes, it IS everywhere, all TV news, celebrities, everyday enormously growing amount of random people, and even US governments, are all using twitter. It’s not just another social networking website, it is a phenomenon of the generation. It’s quick, short and full of information that you are interested in…. this is exactly what we are for.
Papyrus is a contemporary font that has been broadly used in various art works for different types of occassions, due to its neat yet stylish look and great legibility.
Every person in the world is like a planet, lonely, but connected to each other in some way. Graphic design, a certain form of art and technology, is just like a media, a window, through which we convey messages. With it, life becomes colorful and meaningful.