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I've worked out most of the kinks in this css menu below.  You can see an example of it here. It now works in Internet Explorer.  I've tested for IE 6, 7, and 5.5.  Opera works fine except there's a weird flicker on the hover that I have to work out.  Camino and Firefox work great.  Netscape adds some horizontal scroll bars that I need to figure out how to get rid of.  Safari, well, safari just crashes when it hits the page which I have yet to figure out why.  Hopefully I will soon.

There's another way of doing this as well.  I took a drop-line menu from Stu Nichol's excellent CSS Play site and altered it to work as a flyup menu. Click here to see it in action.  The original menu at CSS play can be found here .  Unfortunately, for the project I was working on, the above code from CSS Play could not be used because the CMS I was working with did not allow for the insertion of the extra table elements necessary for IE to work properly.  I had already hacked out my version before I discovered the one at CSS Play.  

I've been working on a new type of css menu. Basically, it's a drop down menu, except the submenu shows up above the main area as a bar.  To really get an idea of what I'm talking about, take a look at the demo page.  It currently works in Firefox 1.5 (PC and Mac), Opera 9, Safari (still debugging this a bit).  IE has a way to go before it's completely operational. I also need to figure out some backward compatibility with Firefox 1.0 and Opera 8. 

Demo

I've been trying to find a decent way of making a vignette in photoshop for a while.  I shoot in jpeg mode on my Canon 10D because I don't have enough memory cards to shoot in RAW all the time. Well, one of the great things about RAW files is using Adobe's Camera RAW on them.  It's rather frustrating to me that I can use Adobe Lightroom or even Apple's Aperture on jpeg files and do all the things on the jpeg files that I can on RAW files with those programs, but not with Adobe Camera RAW! It only allows you to use it on RAW files.  Well, one of the things I like best about Camera RAW was the vignette feature.  Well, lo and behold, I found out tonight that you can get the same thing by using Photoshop's Lens Correction Filter (requires Photoshop CS2).  So, to make a vignette, simply go to Filters —> Distort —> Lens Correction.  Play with the vignette settings until you're happy.   Here's a photo of the beach at False Cape State Park that I added a light vignette to.