Fancy backgrounds have some people waiting for a long time. Frames Frames look very good and make web sites easy to navigate, but try avoiding making your homepage using frames. You will encounter problems with some search engines when registering your web site with them. You do want some pictures on your web site if you are selling a product. Pictures can show your customers the product that you want them to buy.
Pictures are truly worth a thousand words on the web.
Don't go over board with pictures but just enough so a person can get an idea of what you're selling. A good thing to do is have a page just for pictures. This will allow the person to easily navigate your entire web site once they have visited your homepage. Java and animation are neat, but even with today's fast modems most people still have to wait quite a bit before the animated graphics load into their browsers. It's estimated that there will be 300 million users worldwide by the year 2000.