diff --git a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/css/idots.css b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/css/idots.css
index 05ad85baef..77af16aaf9 100755
--- a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/css/idots.css
+++ b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/css/idots.css
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ body
 	padding:14px;
 }
 
+img
+{
+	border-width:0px;
+	border-style:none;
+}
+
 a:link
 {
 	color: #006699; 
@@ -147,6 +153,13 @@ a.textSidebox
 	height:1px;
 }
 
+.prefSection
+{
+	font-weight:bold;
+	font-size:16px;
+	line-height:40px;
+}
+
 #extraIcons
 {
 	position:absolute;
@@ -283,6 +296,15 @@ a.textSidebox
 	text-align:right;
 }
 
+#divGenTime
+{
+	bottom:14px;
+	font-size: 9px;
+	color: #ff0000;
+	text-align:center;
+	width:99%;
+}
+
 #divPoweredBy 
 {
 	bottom:14px;
diff --git a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/footer.tpl b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/footer.tpl
index 5c35e3d060..0d524b80a4 100755
--- a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/footer.tpl
+++ b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/footer.tpl
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   </table>
 </div>
 </div>
-
+{page_generation_time}	
 <div id="divPoweredBy"><br/><span>{powered_by}</span></div>	
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/head.inc.php b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/head.inc.php
index 44ec2e65ba..c28e8863a4 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/head.inc.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/head.inc.php
@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@
 
 	/* $Id$ */
 
+	
+	if($GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['user']['preferences']['common']['show_generation_time'])
+	{
+		$mtime = microtime(); 
+		$mtime = explode(" ",$mtime); 
+		$mtime = $mtime[1] + $mtime[0]; 
+		$GLOBALS['page_start_time'] = $mtime; 
+	}
+	
+	
 	$bodyheader = ' bgcolor="' . $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['theme']['bg_color'] . '" alink="'
 		. $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['theme']['alink'] . '" link="' . $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['theme']['link'] . '" vlink="'
 		. $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['theme']['vlink'] . '"';
diff --git a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/head.tpl b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/head.tpl
index e306d0a61e..3c5549f944 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/head.tpl
+++ b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/head.tpl
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 		1. use lowercase is possible, because of xhtml validation
 		2. make your template validate either html 4.01 or xhtml 1
 		3. make your application validat both if possible
-		4. always use "" when possible (please help me I don't know the English word)
+		4. always use quotionmarks when possible e.g. <img src="/path/to/image" class="class" alt="this is an image :)" />
 		5. use png-graphics if possible, but keep in ming IE has a transparency bug when it renders png's
 		-->
 
diff --git a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/hook_settings.inc.php b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/hook_settings.inc.php
index 5f051c24ec..722d087d9d 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/hook_settings.inc.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/hook_settings.inc.php
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 	\**************************************************************************/
 
 	/* $Id$ */
-
+	create_section('Preferences for the idots template set');
+	
 	create_input_box('Max number of icons in navbar','max_icons',
-		'How many icons should be shown in the navbar (top of the page). Additional icons go into a kind of pulldown menu, callable by the icon on the far right side of the navbar.','',3);
+'How many icons should be shown in the navbar (top of the page). Additional icons go into a kind of pulldown menu, callable by the icon on the far right side of the navbar.','10',3);
+
+	create_check_box('Show page generation time','show_generation_time',
+	'Show page generation time on the bottom of the page?');
diff --git a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/navbar.inc.php b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/navbar.inc.php
index 1f36424500..6b23f6eb35 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/navbar.inc.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/navbar.inc.php
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
 				if(isset($item_link['icon']))
 				{
 					$app = isset($item_link['app']) ? $item_link['app'] : $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['flags']['currentapp'];
-					$var['icon_or_star'] = '<img src="'.$GLOBALS['phpgw']->common->image($app,$item_link['icon']).'">';
+					$var['icon_or_star'] = '<img src="'.$GLOBALS['phpgw']->common->image($app,$item_link['icon']).'"/>';
 				}
 				$var['lang_item'] = isset($item_link['no_lang']) && $item_link['no_lang'] ? $item_link['text'] : lang($item_link['text']);
 				$var['item_link'] = $item_link['link'];
@@ -252,6 +252,18 @@
 		);
 		$GLOBALS['phpgw']->hooks->process('navbar_end');
 
+
+		if($GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['user']['preferences']['common']['show_generation_time'])
+		{
+			$mtime = microtime(); 
+			$mtime = explode(" ",$mtime); 
+			$mtime = $mtime[1] + $mtime[0]; 
+			$tend = $mtime; 
+			$totaltime = ($tend - $GLOBALS['page_start_time']); 
+
+			$var['page_generation_time'] = '<div id="divGenTime"><br/><span>'.lang('Page was generated in %1 seconds',$totaltime).'</span></div>';
+		}
+
 		$var['powered_by'] = lang('Powered by phpGroupWare version %1',$GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['server']['versions']['phpgwapi']);
 		$GLOBALS['idots_tpl']->set_var($var);
 		$GLOBALS['idots_tpl']->pfp('out','footer');