This article has been translated to Polish, available at mambopl.com

When I was starting to add content to the andy-stewart.com website, I decided to change some of the standard Mambo icons and images with my own - to give it a more personal touch.  I had recently purchased a heap of icon images in PNG format, and decided to use these.

Another reason for using the PNG format, was that I was having issues with the transparencies of GIF images especially when I had defined them with a drop shadow.  I would get little white areas around the shadows which looked rubbish when placing them over coloured backgrounds etc.  PNG promised to do away with these issues - and certainly within Opera and FireFox it did.  Unfortunately Microsoft in all it's wisdom had not implemented the PNG transparencies format properly and I was left with a grey/blue background behing all my PNG images.

I have been asked LOADS of times, well at least twice, how I did the pop-up login box (now found over at www.andy-stewart.com).  This is something that I first saw over at Jason Murphy's website and thought was way cool and an excellent place to put the login box.  His is hidden somewhere on the site, but I wanted mine to be a little more obvious.