Creating transparent gifs - but still retaining some opacity

Hello,
I'm having some issues with creating transparent gifs.
I am creating a box with a single color in it w/ the opacity of 30% but when I save it as a gif file, it makes it completely opaque.
I would like to save it as a gif but still making it somewhat transparent.
Is this only possible with PNG files?
Thank you advance...
J

JiggyxJ wrote:
...I'm just gonna have to go with PNG but my dev team won't be happy since they have to figure out a way to make the PNG file work with IE6.
Point those dunderheads in this direction. You'll look like a hero:
http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6

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> I'm basically trying to optimize a transparent image for
the web. I have a
> straight PNG vesion here, which is what I'm trying to
do, but it's around
> 96k -
> so a bit high.
>
> It looks like :
>
>
http://www.handprintdvd.co.uk/webdesign/carcarenew/homepagetemp.shtml
>
> I tried exporting it as an 8 bit PNG, which got the file
size down, and
> looks
> OK in Safari, but looks hopeless in IE (6) :
>
>
http://www.handprintdvd.co.uk/webdesign/carcarenew/homepage.shtml
>
> So I tried exporting as a transparent GIF, but it only
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http://www.handprintdvd.co.uk/webdesign/carcarenew/homepagetemp3.shtml
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> Any tips on how I can optimize it a bit better for the
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