Delete the gifs and replace with a plain background color, preferably white. Remove reset and cancel buttons from forms and dialogues. Accordingly, they should be replaced with relevant content. Homepages presenting corporate intentions, policies, and managers is a special kind of splash screen. As a rule of thumb, performance, products, and corporate news matters more to users than good intentions and unrealized ideas .
Performance is the only thing that matters.
General Navigation General navigation bars try to explain website content using 1-3 word descriptions. Most of these descriptions are insufficient and require that users learn about the site. If the test users don't answer correctly, YOU have a problem. Replacing general navigation with good 1-sentense descriptions makes it more likely that users will use the site.