Do you like the new layout?
As you may have seen in the past few weeks I have been trying out new layouts for my website. I moved from the Acquia Slate theme to the Colourise theme and customised it a bit.
Personally I'm starting to like this layout, I even tried to create some artwork 
Does it read better than the previous layout?
What should I change still?
Yet some added tweaks, but no luck for MSIE6
Today I took the time to enhance the layout a bit. As a result I now use a transparent PNG watermark which works as expected on Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and FireFox, but unfortunately not on Internet Explorer 6. I did not try it yet on Internet Explorer 7 sice I no longer have it installed on one of my computers.
If you're still on Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, you'll see a white rectangle with gray text on every page header instead of a nice semi-transparent watermark superimposed on a photograph. I will not provide a fix for this old and unsupporte browser, unless somebody can direct me to a solution which works 'out of the box'
MSIE6 should be fine now as well!
What did the trick, is setting the height of the <div> container to the height of the PNG watermark with alpha channel first, then offset the top padding from the containing <div> to lower the image, then replacing the <div> containing the watermark with a plain <img> tag with image width and height set. Finally enable the JavaScript PNG transparency fix for older MSIE versions, that is shipped with the Colourise Drupal theme.
Sounds ugly, I know, but at least it works
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