Now if you’re like me you love to experiment with Photoshop, now I’ve done posters to website designing and one of my favorite is web designing, its not just seeing it in Photoshop its so much more first you have to plan it out either on paper or just a quick sketch in Photoshop then its making each individual part header, sidebar and footer.
Then you need to decide what’s best for the client for an example I’m going to use my personal site Typer Tappers now one of my designs uses a lot of transparency and what’s the best format to use for that PNG, but the biggest problem here is Internet Explorer 6 now I know for a fact it doesn’t support transparency which is a major bummer because its one of my favorite formats but I thought I should make it then check it out in IE.
So I did that and it doesn’t look that bad and considering the IE users don’t stay on my site very long I think I’m in the clear.
You also need to consider the fact that version 6 is outdated we now have version 7 of internet explorer which supports transparency in PNG files.
Now I wouldn’t normally do this for a client but as this is my website and it doesn’t look half bad I shall wave it this once.
But the format isn’t the best part if you look at WordPress’ website you will notice it says “code is poetry” it really is one of the most fun parts of designing is tweaking the coding to get it working on cross browsers, this can take a long time in some cases but it is a brilliant hobby to have and well worth my time.