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If you put a transparent PNG on a page it will have a blue-gray background in IE versions prior to IE7. 

There are several fixes.  One I’ve seen uses Javascript.  The other I’ve seen uses PHP. 

I prefer the PHP solution because the transparency is fixed before it is even served to the visitor’s browser (PHP is server side scripting).  The Javascript method fails if the visitor has Javascript turned off.

If you are a web designer, you know the challenge of colors and palette.  So many times you see a color scheme on a web site that you’d like to emulate, but it is a pain grabbing the CSS and desciphering everything.

Well, Owen Winkler has come to the rescue.  His “I Like Your Colors” tool available at redalt.com, http://www.redalt.com/Tools/ilyc.php, let’s you see the color scheme of any web site.

Great tool, Owen!

We added our custom EditBEE^™ Content Management System to the KWWOA.org web site this week.  EditBEE^™ CMS is a WYSIWYG editor that allows web site owners to make changes to their web sites without HTML or programming knowledge.  It works like an online word processor. 

We go one step further than the canned solutions that are out there.  We customize it to the specific needs of the client.  With Searcy Monument Company, we added the ability to easily manage their 20+ product galleries of over 260 photos.  Editing their textual content and photo galleries is wrapped into one simple, intuitive interface.

KWWOA needed the ability to easily edit and manage the training hours earned (CEUs) of their members.  So we added a nice little database tool to their EditBEE implementation that made updating the training hours a snap. 

In the words of Melissa at KWWOA:

“Oh my gosh, I sooooo love the training updates setup [in the EditBEE CMS].  Even I can do it!  Great, Great Job Guys! ” 

Thanks, Melissa.

Advantages of EditBEE^™

• Manage your own content.  No waiting on your web design company to get around to it.
• Affordable.  Most small business web sites can be set up for as little as $500.
• Because it is a custom application that we built, we can easily extend it and make it work no matter the uniqueness or complexity of your site.  No canned solution here.

If you have a web site and would like to make your own changes when you want to make them, contact us today!

We met with Todd Ferguson today.  He owns cleardigitalsolutions.com, a web design, development and hosting company based out of Lexington and Georgetown.

We had a good discussion about Economic Development and how we could partner to build an economic development project tracking system for state, local and regional economic development agencies and utilities to use.

It was also refreshing to comisserate with another web designer/developer about the state of the industry in Central Kentucky and the expectations of small businesses.

Published re-designed NewDrone.com web site. Sometimes you are just too busy on client work that you neglect your own site.

Below is a list of links and what not that we find useful.

• SitePoint - A great read for anyone looking to be in the business of web design or web marketing.
• TemplateMonster - thousands of web templates to choose from. They also do corporate logos.
• Visitorville - Make your web traffic reports come alive. It’s web stats meets SimCity.
• Open Source Web Design - great source of design inspiration. The designers, like Tjobbe Andrews at NOW:Design in the UK, are friendly and courteous to do business with.
• W3Schools - where we go for a refresher on that one piece of code we just cannot seem to remember.
• DynamicDrive - why re-write scripts when there are so many out there to just copy.
• Google Local & Yahoo Local . Maps and local business links.
• Vertical Response - from postcards to e-mail newsletters. They have it all.
• SiteSell.com - the 173rd most popular web site in the world. According to Alexa, “Since 1997, SiteSell.com books, courses and software have delivered ‘E-commerce For the Rest of Us.’ Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses outperform larger, well-financed competitors. You can do the same.”