When my website loads, many of the graphics load before the background
image.  This doesn't look good.  How can I get the background image to
load first, before the foreground images started appearing?  
My website is published with MS FrontPage 2003.  For review it is
available here (www.meistermed.com).  Thanks.

would like to see a link to your page.

http://www.meistermed.com

I think it is because you have no background for the page and instead
are using a background in tables.  Set the background for the large
section of the table on the right to also be the background for the
page (in the body statement).

The background image is applied to the whole page via a "theme" (which
applies to the whole website) rather than to the table.

Even if this was not the case, I could not apply this same background
image to the large section of the table on the right because the
background image includes the blue background on the left side of the
screen (the background under the left sided menu).

Bare with me on this and don't get frightend of the html

MS 2003 applies a theme to you site using a css style sheet located at this address

http://www.meistermed.com/_themes/mmtheme/mmth1011.css

which is called to action by this command 

<!--mstheme--><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="../_themes/mmtheme/mmth1011.css"><meta name="Microsoft Theme"
content="mmtheme 1011, default">

which is contained in the head section of the page which is at the
very top of your page so quite simply when you page loads the browser
which reads the page from top to bottom gets as far as the get theme
instruction wanders off gets the theme information applies that to the
page and then strolls back to your page to read the rest of the page.

Where it find the command 

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="157"
background="../images/elements/background.jpg">

which basically tells it to build a table with your image as a background.

Right thats the explaination the answer and i think this should work
with front page but then frontpage is a strange beast is to quiet
simply modify the theme to change the background to this image.

Failing this just find the file containg the theme on your web site
open it with notepad and alter line 15 which currently reads

body         { background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) }

to

body         { background-image:
url{'http://www.meistermed.com/images/elements/background.jpg'} }

should solve your problem quiet neatly.

That seemed to do the trick.  Thank you.

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