**SOLVED** turns out im an idiot something strange just happened to my CSS which you can see here I added the following code to the CSS body { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0; font-size: 75%; font-weight: bold; background: #FFF; } h2 { font: bold 14px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; } ul { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; } img { border: none; } #menu5 { width: 180px; margin: 5px; } #menu5 li a { height: 25px; voice-family: "\"}\""; voice-family: inherit; height: 20px; text-decoration: none; } #menu5 li a:link, #menu5 li a:visited { color: #FFF; display: block; background: url(menu5.gif); padding: 5px 0 0 10px; } #menu5 li a:hover { color: #FFF; background: url(menu5.gif) 0 -32px; padding: 5px 0 0 10px; } Code (markup): this code is being used for a new menu which go on the left hand side By entering in this code I have lost my background, the welcome logo on the site used to be in white and now all the text on the homepage is bold anyone have any ideas?