this is the thread where you ask questions so dorky that you have to direct people to the "HTML playground" forum

Tracer:

How about something like this? (don't know if ILX is going to screw up my script)

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
var day = new Date();
var month = day.getMonth();
document.write('<img src="images/' + month + '.jpg" alt="This is month number ' + month + '">');
//--></script>

Or am I misunderstanding your purpose with the on and off images?

All the images are already on the page, but in their "off" states. I want to turn "on" the image for the current month without any user input, like when the page loads.

I've actually managed to do it, but with a long list of "if - else" statements which bogs the whole thing down and makes the page take forever to load.

Okay I made one more stab; now I'm off to dinner.

Thanks Paul, I'm checking it out right now!