if (document.images) {
home1 = new Image(272, 48);home1.src = 'images/home_welcome.jpg';
home1a = new Image(272, 48);home1a.src = 'images/home_welcome_over.jpg';
home2 = new Image(272, 53);home2.src = 'images/home_about.jpg';
home2a = new Image(272, 53);home2a.src = 'images/home_about_over.jpg';
home3 = new Image(272, 55);home3.src = 'images/home_novels.jpg';
home3a = new Image(272, 55);home3a.src = 'images/home_novels_over.jpg';
home4 = new Image(272, 37);home4.src = 'images/home_appearances.jpg';
home4a = new Image(272, 37);home4a.src = 'images/home_appearances_over.jpg';
home5 = new Image(272, 51);home5.src = 'images/home_contact.jpg';
home5a = new Image(272, 51);home5a.src = 'images/home_contact_over.jpg';
home6 = new Image(272, 79);home6.src = 'images/home_musings.jpg';
home6a = new Image(272, 79);home6a.src = 'images/home_musings_over.jpg';

}
function di(id,name){
  if (document.images) {document.images[id].src=eval(name+".src"); }
}

// function that displays status bar message

function dm(msgStr) {
  document.returnValue = false;
  if (document.images) { 
     window.status = msgStr;
     document.returnValue = true;
  }
}
var showMsg = navigator.userAgent != "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Mac_PowerPC)";
function dmim(msgStr) {
  document.returnValue = false;
  if (showMsg) { 
    window.status = msgStr;
    document.returnValue = true;
  }
}