Sounds like it.



Also, make sure you save any images from Photoshop using its Save For Web feature.

Wow. Okay. I could have sworn it was a jpg background I was trying to layer a transparent gif over, and it was just showing a white background, and I layered the images in my image software to make sure the problem wasn't the image itself. That's why I came here to ask, and Scott S. told me you can't do that.

I didn't have time to test this last night, and tonight isn't looking good either, but I'll re-visit it soon. Thanks for the info.

Well, I tried this. In VSD I made a simple page with a single-color green background. On that I dropped a basic dark blue square saved as a jpg. Then I made a square transparent gif with a colored circle in the middle, and dropped that over the blue jpg. It killed the transparency, just like before,showing white instead.

Here's the published page:

http://www.spinland.biz/test/

I'm attaching the vnu file as well as the two images.

Okay, I'm not attaching them. This forum is rejecting it as not having the right format, even though it's a zip file. Forum bug?

Anyway, I uploaded the zip file. You can get it at:

http://www.spinland.biz/test/CoffeeCup_Work.zip

I just added a second gif that overlaps the blue jpg only partially to show that it is transparent where it doesn't intersect the jpg.

Ok spinny!
I understand what your doing now. It won't work....lol
I thought you mean't just a full jpg background sorry!
Like on mine I have brick jpg, with transparent objects on it. again sorry for misunderstanding

Ah, no prob. I wasn't disputing you, I just couldn't make it work and wanted to know why not. I'll try something else and see what happens. Thanks!

Bingo. I deleted the blue jpg and then defined it as the explicit background in the page editor. Voila, transparency. Very cool!

Something that happened when I was doing that above little test, related to Paint Shop Pro v9: I made the first transparent circle by creating an image with a transparent background, dropping a circle shape on a new layer, and merging/saving as gif. Turns out the transparency didn't "take" at all: if I just drop it on the plain background the white still shows. For the image I added that intersects the edge of the blue square I had to explicitly export the first gif using the optimizer wizard and specify the white (which shouldn't even be there) as transparent, and save it again.

Either a quirk of PSP or something I'm doing wrong the first time around.

So my next question would be this. Can anyone recommend a new where I can transfer my current web site to? Or would I need to re-create all my pages again?

Also, our domain name is registered with Google PageCreator through July. Would I be able to transfer that too? Or should I just wait until July to transfer everything to another site?

Thanks again for your help. I'm usually not this "technologically challenged" but I am definitely embarking in an area that I need more education in.

Thanks,
Tracy

There are several good host providers out there. I personally use:

http://www.totalchoicehosting.com

It's just under $10 a year to get a non-commercial domain name registered with them ($12 for commercial ones, like .biz), and the basic hosting is $4/month. That grants very generous storage space, bandwidth, and tons of features (including unlimited e-mail and subdomains).

My brother-in-law goes with:

http://www.bluehost.com

and I think they're marginally cheaper. I've been with TCH for nearly a decade and didn't want to switch just to save a couple bucks.

If you plan to use VSD to manage your site you'll have to re-create it, but the good news is it's pretty easy to do (been there, done that). If you're more HTML savvy and plan to use HTML Editor you can just download your existing pages and open them up in that, make the needed changes and upload them again to the new server.

Is that the kind of info you're looking for?