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One of the trickier elements to work with a design and ie6 and links on transparent background pngs. In most cases web resources tell you that its impossible or at least very difficult to get them to work. Our last two professional joomla templates required that we use transparent images on a transparent background and this little trick helped us achieve it. It really is a lifesaver and makes life a lot easier when ironing out the bugs in ie6.

Adding Drop Boxes to other templates

26 Dec 2007 - Written by Anthony Olsen

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We've had a few requests for help adding the drop boxes found in the Habitat3 template to other templates such as Slider and Scroller. Here is a step by step explanation of how to approach this. It requires a little bit of hacking but the results should be worth it.

September Flavour of the Month: MosSnippet

03 Sep 2007 - Written by Anthony Olsen

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Put more SEO and funk into Moo Flip

28 Aug 2007 - Written by Anthony Olsen

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One of the funkier ways to use Moo Flip is to use images and to flip them over. We know that this can have repurcussions from an SEO point of view since search spiders cant read images (or at least text typed onto images). So a way to still use images but have them accessible is to use the text offset strategy.

Kuler rocks ...

19 Jun 2007 - Written by Anthony Olsen

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{mosimage}Kuler has got to be the best online resource for colour obsessed people. The scheme gallery is absolutely sensational, the desktop widget is fun and the online schemer is so intuitive and dynamic it'll blow you away. Check it out now.

Colour Lovers

06 Jun 2007 - Written by Anthony Olsen

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This is a beautiful article that delivers some amazing colour palettes to your desktop via the magical world of the butterfly. Its simply amazing ...

Dagon Design Form Mailer

06 Jun 2007 - Written by Anthony Olsen

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This is a really good script for adding custom forms to Joomla. Its really very good for creating complex forms and is a lot more intuitive than a lot of the addon forms available for Joomla. We built the make contact and five question survey for Joomla for a little project but if you want to make some seriously flexible forms you should check the Dagon Design form mailer.