Scott mentioned about the site Bookofstyles.org on Tim Hu Blog(Tim is the newest focuser on the block). I followed that link and I discover something cool, something transparent..
The designer of that site is Firda Beka (an Indonesian!) and then I stumbled into her blog at Wannabegirl.
Ah transparency!! I have been very curios about this, but never got chance to figure out how it works. So I spent my half of my sabbath day to gather around information on how to do this (Is it lawful for me to do website stuff on sabbath?? :)).
I found out that there are two ways to achieve this look:
1. Create a transparent image and put it as a background.
2. Using IE-specific filter. (you would need to code something like this: filter : “alpha(opacity=80)”; on your CSS section. The code wouldn’t work with Netscape browsers, but if I saw someone mentioned something about mozilla-opacity thingy.. I don’t know.. I couldn’t be bothered to chase that up.
Obviously, the first approach is better because of portability issue. I am playing around with it now, it would be cool if I can do similar thing to my website..
Another trick under my belt.
Hey Felix.
Yes. Transparent (or filter effect in general) works only with MS IE, and it surely will not work with other browsers. I do get annoyed sometimes when people use the opaque effect at some places that totally disabled other browsers. Anyway, filters are cool to make fancy presentations. You can find out more from MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/filter/reference/reference.asp
If you want to learn more tricks with CSS and web design stuff, A List Apart (www.alistapart.com) is excellent. Check out their past issues, they’ve got good articles on CSS, design, writing, etc.
hmm..nice site!