//PNG Fix
    $(document).ready(function(){ 
        $(document).pngFix(); 
    });

//Hover Effect
$(document).ready(function() {
	$('.fadeThis').append('<span class="hover"></span>').each(function () {
	  var $span = $('> span.hover', this).css('opacity', 0);
	  $(this).hover(function () {
	    $span.stop().fadeTo(500, 1);
	  }, function () {
	    $span.stop().fadeTo(500, 0);
	  });
	});
});

/* IE PNG fix multiple filters */
(function ($) {
    if (!$) return;
    $.fn.extend({
        fixPNG: function(sizingMethod, forceBG) {
                if (!($.browser.msie)) return this;
                var emptyimg = "empty.gif"; //Path to empty 1x1px GIF goes here
                sizingMethod = sizingMethod || "scale"; //sizingMethod, defaults to scale (matches image dimensions)
                this.each(function() {
                        var isImg = (forceBG) ? false : jQuery.nodeName(this, "img"),
                                imgname = (isImg) ? this.src : this.currentStyle.backgroundImage,
                                src = (isImg) ? imgname : imgname.substring(5,imgname.length-2);
                        this.style.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='" + src + "', sizingMethod='" + sizingMethod + "')";
                        if (isImg) this.src = emptyimg;
                        else this.style.backgroundImage = "url(" + emptyimg + ")";
                });
                return this;
        }
    });
})(jQuery);

//Dropdown
ddsmoothmenu.init({
	mainmenuid: "smoothmenu1", //menu DIV id
	orientation: 'h', //Horizontal or vertical menu: Set to "h" or "v"
	classname: 'ddsmoothmenu', //class added to menu's outer DIV
	//customtheme: ["#1c5a80", "#18374a"],
	contentsource: "markup" //"markup" or ["container_id", "path_to_menu_file"]
})