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Thing is tho chutney i really want everyone on spherculism to use firefox for 1 simple reason. Firefox renders png files but microsoft won't make IE do the same, you get a horrid blue background instead of the transparency.

I want to stop using shitty gif's to make this site and the next time i update the graphics i'll be using png's instead, because they look much nicer, no jagged edges and varying levels of transparency.

I'e reduced the size of the ad, it was eclipsing the spherc logo a lot, but that's soon gonna change anyhow.

as for people not wanting to know about open source stuff, the point is that very few people know that open source stuff is free and usually as good if not better than comersial stuff. Why do people not know? Because they cannot afford to advertise because they do not charge for their product. So I'm advertising their stuff for free.

For example. Open Office is free, it works waaaaay better than microsoft office, opens all microsoft files and saves them but everyone thinks they need to buy ms office. Obviously i'm talking about people who have got a lot to lose by using a crack copy.

Then take The Gimp, I installed it the other day and was blown away at how good it is, it's got pretty much every feature of photoshop 6, plus a few extras. Given the choice of buying photoshop cs (which is rubbish and increadibly processor hungry) or using the Gimp I say bring out the Gimp.

Well if anyone gets me to link to a site with adware then i'll take the banner away. Of course i hate adware. But how about banners for Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D? How many people actually know that stuff exists? I certainly wouldn't if i didn't work in web design.

I se it as educating and looking out for the comunity.

Thanks for the reply chutney, sorry if i sound defensive i don't mean to be