I'm afraid I have to agree with Bill 100% and I have been saying this on a few threads lately. If you want a good site, concentrate on the message. Animation can be okay sometimes but it slows down the download time, it draws my eye away from your real message. The older sites were all done with plain html which created a static site like a magazine page or a newspaper, but full of information and I'm afraid that even with all today's technology it hasn't changed the what creates a good web site (design)

I can't give you anything more because I don't know what age group your trying to attract and what your trying to do, but if you want a person to visit your site the Accueil or index page should be fast downloading, tell me what your site is about with possibly an image posted and links to slower downloading pages. That way, if I am interested, I will wait while your other pages downloads. In my opinion, if you want to be a good web creator, get rid of you brand new high speed machine, get an older p2 which for me is a step up, get rid of high speed connection and use dial up, set the screen resolution to 800 x 600 and then sit on your ass for half an hour while waiting for your site to download and then scroll left to right to see the page, then you will start to understand good web design. At this stage I think there are a lot more of us than there are of you's, so keep this in mind. I am sure you can create good, if not a great site but keep in mind size, navigation, and good tastes. Make your big pictures no more than 500 pixels wide and experiment, but you should be able to compress jpg's between 60 to 75% without really affecting the viewing quality........hopes this helps a bit.......frank