The FreeBSD Handbook covers most FreeBSD installation topics in depth, but the following is exactly the way I install all of my systems. This process is quick and will get you into a system that you can customize to your liking.

I have compiled a list of system commands that I felt were frequent enough to mention. The list covers commands that you use to ti interact with the file system and network, use the vi/vim editor, and utilize screen to make life easier.

git is an awesome reversion-control system (amougst many other things) Coupled with gitosis for easy user/project/groups/access management and gitweb to get a great visualization of a project's repository, it can quicky scale to any project at hand.

scrotwm is an excellent tiling window manager that I have been doing my development work in lately. I have found it amazingly useful, though the docs on it are pretty scarce. As of this writing, there is still no .deb package for it and it is not in the repository, so I have outlined a quick install.

To make a long story short, transparency is a P.I.T.A. if you plan on exposing your image to older web browsers. The transparency in your image might appear to work as planned in the more recent browsers, but the same image can often result in an array of funky colors where the transparency is supposed to be in older browsers.

Transparency is a must on today's Web and, unfortunately, old and outdated browsers are still prevalent enough that you have to take them into considering when building/designing a website. Though some statistics might cite that older browsers have a minute market share and choose to neglect them in the design process, those same viewers could be a click on an ad, a purchase at your store, or remain valuable in some other aspect.

Using the GIMP, cross-browser transparency support is easily accomplished with a few clicks. The following list of instructions is, verbatim, what needs to be done to export the image correctly.

1. Image -> Flatten Image
2. Layer -> Transparency -> Add Alpha Channel
3. Select -> By Color OR use the Fuzzy Select Tool with thresholds on the GIMP toolbox
4. Edit -> Clear or DEL on the keyboard
5. Image -> Mode -> Indexed...
6. File -> Save As... -> filename.png
7. (yes to defaults)