like this- http://www.geocities.com/palmtree_fan - I mean get the text where it is and the links in the image map targeted to that area??? I don't really know what I'm talking about or how to say it..but do you know what I mean?

I guess you could use iframes...but that doesn't seem to look like...oh I dunno!

You're right, that is an iframe - although you could use regular frames as well ;).

You just have to position the iframe where you want it, and target the links :).

<iframe style="position:absoute; top:#px; left:#px;" name="IFRAME">
</iframe>

And for your links:
<a href="PAGE.HTML" target="IFRAME">click</a>

then how did the background image show up like it was just part of the layout?? and whenever I do iframes theres like always a noticable outline, even with border=0 and framborder="0"...haha I'm not very good with all this stuff!

Yeah, the image is just part of the layout. It's been positioned in the upper left corner, and the iframe on top of it ^_^

<img src="IMAGE.GIF" style="position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px;">

ok thanx!! :)

one more thing tho...(can I give an address to show an example??) like here- http://www.geocities.com/lordbyron714, ya see how the iframe like indents in, like you can tell where the borders are?? how do you make it so it doesn't do that?

You mean how the iframe sticks out? It hasn't been aligned properly - if you're screen res. is 800x600, it'll look okay, but if you're screen is larger, it'll look funny.

Ok, thank you. My problem was the border around the edge of the frame, I knew to put frameborder="0" and border="0", but it wasn't working for some reason...I figured out that reason. So thanx again. oh and that website up there isn't a good example of what I was trying to show, it doesn't even have what I was trying to talk about...