In the pop up window are two templates to choose from. Both are quick loading, being HTML generated rather than images, which are slow to load. The page you are looking at right now was assembled by your computer from HTML code. No page actually exists anywhere. To complicate matters, your computer is really being instructed by the browser you are using, usually either Netscape or Explorer, and each browser brings the page up slightly differently -- interprets the HTML code slightly differently. Your site will be checked and rechecked in both browsers to optimize for both. Your statistics will show that 8 out of 10 or so use Explorer, so we lean toward it as the standard.

In the case of this page, your computer has been instructed to set up a table with nested tables within, filled with certain coded colors and containing designated text using certain fonts and sizes, aligned in certain ways. One small image was instructed to show itself also

When you call up a page containing large images, your computer has to first load up the HTML elements, then wait while it imports the images from the remote server. Then it builds the pictures, line by line.

Too slow.

Code loads up almost instantly, images take a while. Sometimes, as with my guitar book home page, large images are essential, but you will notice that there is a blurb (in HTML code) to read while you wait for the image.

If you have a particular layout and color scheme that you can convey to us accurately, by fax or snail mail, we can easily oblige.

In reality, it's the content of a site that matters, not the appearance. Web surfers have seen it all. If they're looking you up at your site, don't keep them waiting at the front gate. They might go next door.