The word "[quote=Brian] they're not actually disappearing, what you're seeing is it's trying to flip to an image that's not loaded yet, so what it does is display the alt text while the image is loading. on a fast connection, you can't really tell, but on a modem, it's quite apparent. one way to fix this would be to use javascript to preload the images. you could do something like this: <script> var image1_on = new Image(); image1_on.src = 'images/int_on.gif'; var image1_off = new Image(); image1_off.src = 'images/int_on.gif'; </script> <a href="intro.shtml" onmouseover="i1.src=image1_on.src" onmouseout="i1.src=image1_off.src" target="main"> <img src="images/int_off.gif" border="0" name="i1" alt="Intro"> </a>[/quote]" you have used in your post has been banned from use. Please use a different word or contact the forum administrators.