if(document.images)
{
  var image_array = new Array();
	
  // path to the directory with images
  var path = './images/navbar/';

  // enumeration of the "active" images
  image_array[0] = path + "home0.gif";
  image_array[1] = path + "home1.gif";
  image_array[2] = path + "events0.gif";
  image_array[3] = path + "events1.gif";
  image_array[4] = path + "locations0.gif";
  image_array[5] = path + "locations1.gif";
  image_array[6] = path + "services0.gif";
  image_array[7] = path + "services1.gif";
  image_array[8] = path + "contactus0.gif";
  image_array[9] = path + "contactus1.gif";
  image_array[10] = path + "donations0.gif";
  image_array[11] = path + "donations1.gif";
  image_array[12] = path + "resources0.gif";
  image_array[13] = path + "resources1.gif";

  var preload_image = new Array ();
 
  for(var i=0; i<image_array.length; i++)
  {
    preload_image[i]= new Image();
    preload_image[i].src = image_array[i];
  }
}