For this reason, this 
is the usual graphic you
will see throughout the pages in this collection. The symbol usually takes
you back to a previous section of the gallery. However in the young author
sub-sections of the gallery, we may choose not to provide this "backward"
path, due to the fact that some "kids-based" organizations link to the youth
pages, and do not want links that go off to other places other than a
particular page they have chosen and approved.
There two other graphics, the first being the use of the WorldWide Web
icon on the home page of The Writer's Gallery,
which includes a text reference to the OneStep Internet Services, the folks
providing, free of charge, a server for use by The Writer's Gallery.
The second graphic you will see is the "button bar" (shown below) which you will see on the top level pages. This helps you quickly navigate to the type of reading you'd like to do. Once in a reading area, graphics all but disappear, the notion being that you come here to read...so READ!
Also, since the Writer's Gallery was optimized for the highest possible performance, we do not use a large number of small graphics nor do we use large images on any of the pages. The idea is to keep the download times small and allow you to go about your reading with all due haste.
If you are using a Netscape browser, you may have noticed that the first page of the Writer's Gallery uses a background "tile" image. This is a very small graphic that gets downloaded the first time you enter The Writer's Gallery, and never needs to be loaded again. It is then "tiled" over the entire first page, giving you an interesting flash of color for "free"!