yeh tbh i have only ever made one theme, which is "encroaching smoke"
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=themes&url=marblemasterpieces.com.au/google_api/theme_new.xml

and mine is a jpeg with the background being a repeating single
vertical line of pixels.

lol no math involved there :D

On Apr 17, 3:02 pm, AaronC <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well put K3G, the idea has been to keep load times down.  That is why
> they tiled things the way they did.  I found png to be to expensive
> with themes, it really only looks cool while you are resizing the
> window.  The header layout works great for our monitors. Some
> developers will follow the 900&300 pixel rule, I like to bend it a
> bit, my last theme was 900&900,  ohhhhhh.
>
> On Apr 8, 10:09 am, K3G <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > if you are clever with the way you design your images you shouldn't
> > need transparency at all. theres some tips in the dev instructions
> > that google provide on how to set up your tiled images to align with
> > your centre image
>
> > On Apr 3, 5:36 am, Matthew Timpanelli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > at work i also have ie6. I don't really understand why. I guess i can take
> > > refuge in that fact that even if you are at work with ie6 no one uses it 
> > > for
> > > browsing the internet. They save that for other browsers ;)
>
> > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jay Barrow <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I've used pngs with transparency for my attrition.  Haven't tried them 
> > > > for
> > > > other artwork (header/footer/tiles).  At work our PC's have IE6 
> > > > installed,
> > > > all 2,000+ of 'em (my full-time job is with a very large school 
> > > > district).
> > > >  I'm guessing there are a lot of other users out there that have to 
> > > > "put up"
> > > > with IE6.  Luckily I also have an iMac and Firefox, Chrome and Safari 
> > > > all
> > > > render pngs correctly.
>
> > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:22 PM, psy-sci <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > >> Has anyone been designing stuff that would work in ie6 or has everyone
> > > >> given up on that. I'm trying to decide if i should use transparency on
> > > >> png files. I hate seeing that light blue/white background.  I been
> > > >> trying to do it with gifs but those look terribly gross.
>
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> > > Matthew Francis Timpanelli
> > > [email protected]
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