Writing User-Agent specific CSS

Asked by Andrew a freelance designer from Chicago

How come when i have the “if IE” link to the css, it doesn’t change at all?
It’s linked correctly and the “if IE” is correct, but the css just isn’t showing.
I think cause the link to the regular css is over-riding the “if IE” one. Why won’t it work?

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The Problem with .PNG

What do you think of when you read or hear the term “transparency” in a web related conversations?

.png might be some peoples answer. “UGH!”, could be a common answer also. If you go to my website you’ll notice some ink splatter headers that sit throughout the design. I had quite a hard time getting those to display correctly thanks to Internet Explorers lack of native png transparency support. It is one of THE most complained about topics on the web (and I have done my fair share of it). People have been asking for the support since BEFORE version 5.0 but today, there are still a lot of hacks and “fixes”, it shouldn’t be that hard to use transparency.

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