When my website loads, the footer image stays at the top of the page until the entire webpage is loaded. www.wildbackpacker.com. Does anyone know how I can tell this image to load at the bottom of the page by default? Or should I use a script to have to load last? Any suggestions to what is happening? If you have a blazing fast connection you might not have this problem. Thanks for the help in advance!

I took a look at your site in two browsers. The first browser blew up on something in your code, the second loaded the background image first and then loaded the rest of the code second.

If you ONLY want an image in the footer then you will have to enclose the image in a footer div or a footer table.

From what I can see you have currently set your background image for the entire page, not just the footer and that will amost always load first.

Especially with those Javascripts loading those images and all that Google
Crud code at the bottom of the page.

First come first serve.