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LOL. No. It's this Gateway keyboard and the flat keys. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. And I'm not going to start proof reading now, so you will just have to decipher my hieroglyphic postings.

I have a wireless keyboard and mouse, and losing the first letter seems to be the norm. It's especially irritating when typing passwords where you don't even see what you mistyped.

Y D - you need to get this crowd doing some cleansing breaths
If you create a large image for your background in an image editing program and optimize it for web, it won't "weigh" much (my background file is about 22kb). Then if you add it through Settings > Standard Settings for New Pages > Picture (for background), it will be set as a background on each page. But if you just copy/paste your image for each page, you'll have that many copies of the same image to be loaded.

If you want to have certain areas of the page (or areas within an image) act as links, check out the CC Image Mapper software. The HTML Editor has a CSS menu maker, if you don't mind dabbling with some html/css. Or you could look online for an easy CSS menu creator. I'd stay away from Flash menus since not all devices support it. Do you have some idea how you would like your menu bar to look/function? Maybe someone here could help you get it set up.

The guys in here who do html properly NOT USING VSD might scream but

If you create a page in VSD using all images, (convert text with alternative text)

Preview the finished page in firefox, ie8 etc. and do save as it makes a perfect size background image.

Then optimise for web in photoshop, and you can now add it just the once as the background in home page, and it will be duplicated in every other page automatically.

Pretty much what I was saying, but I would set my background image then type the text per page so it remains actual text (and can be edited or changed as needed). If you create your bg image in Photoshop (or similar), it can be made to be the same size as the page. I often make 2 versions - the basic page size and a longer version if the page needs a long scroll (so there's no break between bg images as they repeat). I usually save bg images at the lowest quality I can get them to without becoming pixelated or blurry to keep the file size as small as possible. Text - even text as an image - needs to be saved at a much higher quality so it won't look mushy.

Sage tips, my thanks. I'm redoing the site and will post the updated pages in a week or so.

Ya'll are super and duper!