dHarry

Overall it's nice!I would tidy up that cut off ribbon on the top left.The main text needs a lighter, not darker, background - very hard to read!! Personally I would code from scratch using CSS, not Photoshop! I hate that colspan layout it forces on you - very hard to change manually.

Try to use <div> and basic, simple HTML markup with css positioning rather than many nested tables - this can significantly speed up the page-load times. Javascript may not necessarily slow down the pageload - depends on what it's doing i.e. event listeners waiting for user events won't cause a significant overhead.Flash if used intelligently and minimally will not add significantly either - it's a super-fast streaming technology - just make sure a fallback position is used for non-Flash users.Keep images down to a minimum - use css blocks of colour for simple backgrounds, columns etc, use css styles for headers etc rather than images - and don't use overhead-costly server technologies like jsp etc unless they are necessary. - dHarry

I've never seen anything like a "blue line" being created by the browser except around an image linked unless you set its border to "0". Can you just paste the code in here so we can see it? And yes, css is the way to go for general layout/positioning, not tables! -dHarry

You should be able to resuce the opacity of the original image before you created the frames for movement - on the top right of the layers window is a 100% marker -- click and you should get a "dial" to resuce the opacity to something like 50%, play around until it's what you need, then use this as the basis for the animated gif. Actually a similar effect can be produced by using "brightnesss and contrast" settings to resuce the brightness and contrast (just a little for the latter) to fade/wash out the image a little. Let me know if these work ok ;-) - dHarry