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The BBC has compiled a list of the 100 things that they found out last year, makes for good reading.

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Christmas was peaceful and happy enough for me, which is always nice and now I am looking forward to the almighty piss up (and inevitable anti climax) that New years eve brings.

Now onto the problems, De Agostini has already started to advertise its yearly serials of magazines with absolutely awful FREE gifts.  “First Issue only 99p with a free statuette of John Wayne! - every issue after that £4.99 - Collect them All!”  Which nobody has ever done I am sure.

Every Sunday newspaper starts the yearly diet/detox/anti life serials.

Eastenders, Coronation Street, HollyOaks whatever has put us all into an almost permanent depression from which no recovery is possible. ON CHRISTMAS DAY!

And the Sofa shops have managed to convince everyone that although they only bought a new suite last year (and will not actually have to pay for it until next year) that they need a new one.

But I am personally looking forward to 2007, some exciting things are happening Vista will be out, hopefully IE6 will finally die and be replaced by IE7 which makes my working life so much easier, Adobe will be releasing its Universal Creative Suite 3 (yay!), Transformers the movie is out (maybe yay) and hopefully I will be moving to a nice new place with the missus.

Happy new 2007

General News and events

Souk Trading needed their original Flash based website updated as it was receiving bad ranking in most search engines and this was consequentially hindering the amount of interest they were getting. We advised them that with a XHTML solution the website would be more than adequate for all the search engines and also provide them with some extra display options that were not originally in the old flash based design.

After working closely with Nick and his team Vibrant Solutions created a modern layout that also gives them the ability to have almost total control of their website from within one of our powerful but easy to use content management solutions. As all our CMS are custom made this means that with the minimum of effort Souk Trading can alter the content and photographic content of their website without any knowledge of HTML or having to manually resize any of the photographs. The system takes care of all of that.

Portfolio

I have just downloaded the new Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta and I must say this software is everything I wanted from a Universal Application.  Blazingly Fast and Responsive.  If this is what is being produced by the new Adobe and Macromedia merge than I am all for it.

If you have a need to have a valid Cs2 serial number.  But you can download it here.

OS X

I personally find myself using this a lot, most for rollover graphics on CMS solutions so that the end user does not have to create and upload two different thumbnail images but can still have some kind of effect occuring when the button is highlighted.

The current best solutions for cross browser transparency for all browsers is simply to put the following code in your CSS style for the particular object:

filter:alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity:0.5;
opacity: 0.5;

The filter option works for IE 6 and 7 and the moz-opacity setting is for early versions of firefox and the standard opacity setting is for everyone else.

simple

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