If none of these options works it is possible that you are working through a proxy server. The United Media site was designed for best use with a Netscape browser. Microsoft Internet Explorer works well, too. If you are using AOL's browser, the color strips may appear blurry or fuzzy. Some of the graphics on the page show up as bizarre icons.
Bizarre icons are a symptom of an overloaded server or line.
That should fill in the missing pieces. It's a fact of life that without advertising and product sales, United Media would have no Web site. Currently, our ads are being handled by outside firms that rotate them from their sites, so we don't see the ads prior to their rotation on our pages. Animated ads have become commonplace on the Web, and the advertisers are paying us, and we like that. I have a great new idea for a strip.