Drop shadows can be created in many ways. Most graphics programs can create drop shadows for images, but with the advent of CSS3, the process is greatly simplified.
My book Practical HTML5 Projects (apress.com) covers over a dozen techniques for shadows around images and web pages, and many of those will work with Internet Explorer 8. This chapter will deal only with drop shadows for modern versions of Internet Explorer (IE 9 or later), and of course with all the other modern browsers that are compatible with CSS3.
CSS3 introduced many useful features and is backwardly compatible with CSS2. ...
