Category Archives: Design

IE 7/8 PNG-24 transparency issue

By Donnie Bachan | Published: June 9, 2010

We came across an error today without drop down menu system that uses a PNG-24 semi transparent drop shadow image around the border where the transparency would appear black in IE 7 and IE 8. After searching and trying all possible fixes we found the solution to the problem and it was quite simple. Our menu [...]

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Magento: Adventures in creating a custom design

By Donnie Bachan | Published: February 7, 2009

Let me start off by saying, Magento is an EXTREMELY powerful and well built ecommerce platform. It contains all of the features necessary to deliver a stable and scalable solution for ecommerce (and more). That being said, I do have a few issues. So far, I find the system quite slow. Maybe it is just [...]

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Striped Backgrounds

By Donnie Bachan | Published: April 9, 2007

I was digging around at alexa.com today and noticed that www.stripegenerator.com was getting a lot of traffic so I headed over there and made the background that I use on this site. I would like to see the preview change without having to click on it to refresh but all in all it is really [...]

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