[help] Using Png's In Web Design And Progress Bars

Hello,

For my school district i am making a webpage and i need to know two things:

1. PNG's always show up with a grey or yellow background when the page is viewed through the browser but the png itself has no background. how do i make it so the png can be over the page background with no extra colors

2. the progress bar on this page http://www.aqua-soft.org/index2.html . Are there more progress bars out there that i can use without being a copyright infringer?

Thanks,

Pops

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Hi, there are two decent ways to get PNGs working in "all" browsers (read: IE4+, Netscape 6+, Mozilla, Opera). Both have been discussed at great length in this thread. Can I recommend you take a look at that?

As for progress bars, you could make your own, or, alternatively, look for copyright-free animated GIFs. Just google for something like "animated gif progress bar". Alternatively, you could make your own. Bear in mind, however, that it's almost impossible to make a "real" working progress bar on a web page - something like the one we have on A-S is changed every time we want a higher progress status, so you will probably be better off making your own...

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