Thanks for the replies, Barry, Billie, Judy (and apologies for last night's misspelling of "new"). Your ideas are similar, but not quite what I'd like: a notice which would come up whenever a person first goes onto my site, no matter which page, but doesn't appear again. That they have to click to close wouldn't matter, but I would like something to appear over any page just the once. I'd like to do it without having to add any code to every page on my site - I just haven't got the time to do it, and some are very very old coding. Caroline ____ "Tilberia" http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~cmtilbury "TheTilbury Magazine" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmtilbury/ttm/ttm_frontpage.html Every path has its puddle. Life has no reverse gear. NB: an e-mail message remains the Intellectual Property of the sender; traffic on this e-mail server may be normally subject to UK and French copyright law.