Thanks, Nancy, but I am not sure that your suggestion is the proper cure, unless perhaps it can be applied to <img> tags.

If you look at the reference document (see original post) you will see that in some cases the borders appear and in some cases they do not.  If you look further at the source file of the reference document you will see that the tables that contain the elements whose borders are showing have border attributes set to zero.

I realize that this is perhaps old technology, but I am loathe to redesign the whole page, as I have so much else going on.  This said, I am willing to tweek it where necessary, because it is still a very useful cover page to the even more primitive set of pages that it introduces.

By the way, I set up an account at Lunarpages and a after more than six-month pause have finally begun production.  See http://www.thegenaproject.com

Roddy

Yes, a GIF image might work better, but for the moment I am more concerned about the more obvious borders.

Maybe they are not borders.  Maybe it is just unwanted space that is showing through the black background.

Roddy

I performed an experiment and changed the background color from black to red.  Sure enough the color of the visible lines changed from from black to red, as well.  Thus the lines are probably not due to the presence or absence of borders; rather, they are probably due, as you suggested, to bad alignment and spacing.  I also checked the size of the spacer.gif in Fireworks.  The dimensions are 1x1 pixel.

Please understand that this page was designed with the help of ImageReady.  Thus, many of the structural elements that appear were not entered by me.   Whether it was in conjunction with the design of this page or another, I cannot recall, but I do remember that spacer GIFs are used as placeholders to insure that empty cells are not ignored in certain browsers.  Thus, removing them has the potential to destroy the overall layout in some instances.

Any more suggestions?

Roddy