Since your home page is like you own home, it's like having the exterior of your house painted orange with purple dots and surrounding it with a green picket fence. Once can only assume what the interior would look. It's like judging the book by its cover. So if the background is too loud and funky, you have to tone it down a bit so that the message in your text can be understood. The better way to do it is to create a page of 'thumbnails'.
Thumbnails are smaller versions of the bigger picture.
Mr. Glover points out. To me, frames are okay if you have many pages covering many topics. Use Height and width tags. ALT tag your important images 3. Avoid over-using Image maps 2.