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Visit Katz Web Design-developed SteveSpangler.com

As announced in August, Steve Spangler chose Katz Web Design to develop their blog. Their previous blog was aging and didn’t provide the functionality they needed. I was provided with a design by Blake Sumrall (at Steve Spangler, Inc.) and was tasked with converting it to a website.

The development of this site required lots of tricks that convert WordPress into more of a CMS (Content Management System). Read on to learn some of the WordPress customization.

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If you want to know more about CSS sprites and how to put them together, feast your eyes on Google’s:

Here’s the history of Google’s PNG sprite image

Google's Sprite Image

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Google's Sprite Image

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Google's Sprite Image

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Google's Sprite Image

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Google's Sprite Image

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Google's Sprite Image

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Google Image Sprite

You can’t get much more efficient than that…

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Here’s the problem: I want to use CSS Sprites for transparent images, and they require different matte colors.

The promise of CSS Sprites is great: you can combine many small images into one bigger image, and use CSS to reveal only the revelant parts. But what if you have a background image, and the background changes color on :hover? When trying to save the smilies, you can only choose one matte color. I need multiple matte colors!

The issue really is a pain when you have already given your object a stroke. Using the Appearance panel, we’ll make everything happy in the world again!

I want the three smileys to be combined as one

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