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  • Rollover navigation bar with 2 images

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    I promised yesterday to post my trick to create an easy navigation bar with only two images.
    When you have a basic navigation bar with multiple images, it can make the web page very heavy if you have to preload a lot of multiple images to  do a rollover with every image.
    In this example, I have 8 buttons, so that's means 16 images to have a rollover effect with mouse over and mouse out.
    So what you can do is to prepare your navigation bar with Photoshop or ImageReady or Paintshop Pro.
    You create the two bar states like this with an imagemap for each button:

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  • Autoupdate SQL Server

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    Paschal, why couldn't you manage this with a server with a DMZ server with a hole opened up to the inside with IPSec to keep it secure? I agree that the box can't be hit directly, but surely there is a reasonable way to accomplish this objective.

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  • Blogarithm

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    Wow! I just discovered a coool blog service called Blogarithm.

    The purpose there is to send you by email an alert everytime your favorites blogs are updated.

    Coool ;-)

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  • Fast rollovers, no preload needed

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    When using CSS rollovers with images, two, three, or more images must be loaded (and preloaded for best results) - one imgae for each state (normal, hover, active, visited etc). Putting all pictures into one image makes dynamic changes faster and requires no preload.

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  • Mini-Tabs Shapes

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    This is a really cool thing to inaugurate the new category I added to my blog.

    I really enjoy playing with CSS, and the amazing thing you can do with this.

    The proof ? This nice Mini shape tabs article published by Simplebits

    It's a method to implement little graphic shapes in your list-based navigation

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