Crescent, Thanks for the offer. I like what you've done with your website, and I might just have to take you up on answering a question or two, but I've sort of got it under control for now... It's a fairly simple design I'm working on, because my major concern is browser compatability, so for now I'm leaving out the bells and whistles. I would love to hear anyone's advice on frames and tables--particularly tables-- and ESPECIALLY if there's a sure-fire way to make a background image fill an entire page, regardless of the viewer's screen resolution, without doubling over and without causing scroll bars to appear on the horizontal? Cheers, Mike