Help with FW drop shadow

I have created a website in FWCS3 and when I put a background behind it (in DWCS3), the drop shadow effects I have do not work with any colors other than white. Can anyone give some advice? If I use another color for the background the shading looks terrible, like a grayish color Please help.

I'm not an expert with Fireworks. I prefer Photoshop but I imagine the basics are the same. You would place your main image on a Transparent background layer. Apply the drop shadow to your main image. Save for Web as a transparent PNG image. Alpha transparency will permit your page's background image to show through the non-opaque areas of your image.
NOTE: Pre-IE7 browsers don't support alpha transparency on PNG images but you can Google search for IE PNG fix JavaScript that will remedy this.
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> It didnt give me an option to "save" though
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>
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The best thing is to dynamically build your where clause based on the user selection. Test the values of all form fields and if the user does not make a selection, do not include that in the where clause.
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http://www.echoecho.com/htmlforms11.htm
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