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Part of the responsibility is on us developers to push technology along. Some people still use IE5 or IE6 because they do not know any better. I have a little script that pops up at the top of the page when the person viewing the site is using anything less than IE7, and it both explains why they need to upgrade, as well as provides the link for them to upgrade. They have no problem upgrading if they know to do so and how to do so. I refuse to sponsor terrorism, and in this case, IE5 and IE6 is causing terrorism to us developers

And I think it is well work the $20 commercial fee if you wish to use it commercially. If you will not be using it for a commercial site, you can get a free license. Just contact the developer, he will check to see if the site is commercial or not, then send you the free license code.

I have torn this script inside out, and it s till works. Also, the support forum at the website is great. The admin/developer of the script will help you with your problem no matter what it is. Yet, most problems with solutions are listed in the forums - and, all problems with the script have been solved in the latest releases. I use no other lightbox since having found this more than a year ago. It is amazing. Oh, and checkout the 2 js files for customization. You can customize damn near everything imaginable. You can add print, resize, movement of the lightbox, visible flash/javascript elements, etc. Change the backdrop from drop shadow to halo, adjust its depth, including thickness of the borders, radius of the curved corners, or have sharp corner edges, etc etc etc etc. And, you can skin this thing easily to however you want it to look. I love floatbox... hehe, not sure if you could tell.

There are still some people using IE6, true, but the percentage of people is very small. I personally, as well as all companies I have worked for, support nothing less than IE7. I do not agree with PlanetCreate. Scrap IE6 altogether. You will find that most studios say the hell with it. It is crap. It is problematic. Why put yourself through the torture of having to write extra CSS just for IE6? Very few good developers still support it. Consider throwing it to the wolves.

The ability to do this would truly be amazing, but unfortunately it isn't. After you have made your design in Photoshop, the first thing I always do is convert the design into an HTML/CSS page. Then, I start the conversion. If you are wanting to use Joomla, I highly suggest a lifesaving Dreamweaver extension by M65. It is the Dreamweaver Joomla Toolkit. They also have video tutorials that will step you through the process. It is amazingly simple. If you are wanting to make a WordPress theme, possible use the default theme from WordPress, then customize it with your HTML/CSS to incorporate your template into it.

If you want something really simple, check out CMS Builder. I swear by this CMS as it is so incredibly easy to use. And, the stronger your programming skills are, the more powerful it gets. CMS Builder www.interactivetools.com

Thank you so much for pointing me in the direction of Starkers. I am not skilled in building WordPress themes, and have to build a relatively complex one in the coming days. I am sure this will be a huge help.

I really like Tiny MCS and FCKEditor the most. I use FCKEditor for Joomla, and use Tiny MCS for CMS Builder and Drupal.

Hey crisp, I know exactly what you mean. I had the same problem about a month ago, and could not figure out why. I also had a problem on another project in which I named a CSS element 2_xxxxx, and the CSS was not working. It drove me nuts. I had one of my friends look at the code for me, and that is when he spoted the 2_xxxxx for me. It had to be renamed xxxxx_2. You cannot start with a number. I blew 4 hours trying to figure out why I was having the problem. Sometimes, it is great to just ask someone else.

I would use Helen's approach, and in fact is what I normally do.

I agree with rjdejong completely. Do not worry about IE6. In fact, I have not supported IE6 with my website development for nearly 2 years. It is a horrible web browser. I am to the point where I use transparent pngs on almost all my projects, from backgrounds, dropshadow borders, content images, etc.

Very simple: #item { margin:0 auto; }

By the way, why not consider using a really really really cool lightbox script called floatbox. I use it for nearly all projects these days. It supports darn-near everything, including embedding in flash for HTML lightbox popups. http://randomous.com/floatbox/home

CSS Menus are definitely the way to go. You can do some pretty cool effects with CSS and JQuery for menus. I use to be a flash junkie, but am using it less and less these days. Also consider going to dynamicdrive.com for other CSS/Jquery scripts.

Normally I use older flash code to implement flash into websites. Dreamweaver doesn't like the code because it is very old, but then I have absolutely no problems using flash in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. This is the code I normally use to implement flash into a website: <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="287" height="287"> <param name="movie" value="xxxx.swf"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <embed src="xxxx.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="287" height="287"></embed> </object> You can also change value="opaque" to value="transparent" if needed. And, like previously stated here, use z-index where necessary.