speaking of photo thumbnails, how about something like the one in the top left of this page -- http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa111201a.htm an animated gif that rotates through various model's faces with the text overlay "photo coming soon" so that *all* articles on the front page would have something! rudy p.s. i'm just kidding, but we do need to think about the look and feel of only a sprinkling of occasional photos