Center Float and background image

I just finished some updates to my Photography website, it now floats in the center of the view. I also updated the background so it is a repeating image to cut down on background size and load the page faster. The pier in the background is a static image placed over the top of a repeating ocean image blended in Photoshop in a way that it looks like they are one picture. I think it works pretty well.

Why is IE6 still around

I still get a lot of visits to my Photography website from Internet Explorer 6. I sure wish that browser would die, but since it hasn't I made a separate style sheet so the site would look better. The problem is that IE6 doesn't support png transparency which my site uses a lot of. But now with the separate css it looks descent, not perfect but good enough. IE7 is bad enough, I wish everyone would just switch to Google Chrome.

Changes to my Photography Site

I just mostly finished up some interesting changes to my Photography website. It now has a fixed background image, and uses some transparent png images to overlay the header and body while letting the background show through. The body is created by a tiny repeating image so the body can be any length and it doesn't increase webpage size. I think it's a neat effect, I mostly need to do some work so it will look good in the old IE6 browser that sadly is still around.

Just finished up my wife's site

Since I'm really proud of my Photography website and I think the site I just made for my wife is really good, I decided to put up this blog so I would have somewhere to link from the copyright information in the footer of each page. I just about finished up my wife's Pilates site now, it's very basic but really all she needs. I did it in just a couple of days. It has a basic floral pattern in the header and footer and then just a basic column for the body that always floats to the center of the view. I use a repeating pattern in the header and footer to keep size down while letting the browser window resize without cutting off anything from the header or footer. I think it looks really nice and the code is very clean. It's all XHTML compliant and uses CSS for the layout. The menu uses Javascript for the nice little hover effects, and if that is disabled the links will still work.