Hi Lynn,
I'm thinking there must be something I did in the coding - like "repeat" or something. I really don't have a clue. I'm trying to remember where it is at.
Repeat is used in the place in the stylesheet where you define the bg image. I copied exactly that code but used my own image when I tested, and I didn't get the problem, so I don't think that's it. The odd thing is that on first load of my test bg I did see the flicker, but then any page I went to after that I saw no flicker because, of course, the browser cached the image for reuse. It's almost as if your site is not allowing the bg image to be cached by the browser.
I forgot to ask you why I should not use Microsoft Word style code. I had somebody else show me how to convert it to Note Pad and copy it. It is a lot easier than trying to write all the HTML code.
If you had done a "Save As..." in Word to a plain text file, there would be no extra Word style codes there. Just copying the Word doc into Note Pad doesn't get rid of it. The main problem is that the code/style system Word uses is vastly more complex than regular HTML code, mainly so that the file can be reopened in Word. It has almost nothing to do with the web. So you've got a lot of extraneous text in there that is doing no good and may be doing harm. All you need for the sort of text you have is maybe an H2, a few H3s, and then some P tags for the paragraphs. And you don't even need to do that manually. Just copy the raw text into admin/Tools/define pages editor -- which uses either the HTMLarea editor (built-in, I think) or the FCKeditor mod (my preference). You can then select your text and code basic HTML by just clicking. Then any needed styles come from your stylesheet. It's easier to do it than to read about doing it.
Rob
