diff --git a/app/css/loading.sass b/app/css/loading.sass
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43e99f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/css/loading.sass
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+html, body.loading
+  height: 100%
+
+body.loading
+  background: #eee url(/images/bodyload.gif?embed) center center no-repeat
diff --git a/app/images/bodyload.gif b/app/images/bodyload.gif
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b64478
Binary files /dev/null and b/app/images/bodyload.gif differ
diff --git a/app/init/js_css.rb b/app/init/js_css.rb
index c1e4f9b..d6efa4b 100644
--- a/app/init/js_css.rb
+++ b/app/init/js_css.rb
@@ -17,16 +17,9 @@ class Main
       /js/setup.js
     ]
 
-    css :main, '/main.css', %w[
-      /css/style.css
-    ]
-
-    css :error, '/error.css', %w[
-      /css/error.css
-    ]
-
-    css :print, '/print.css', %w[
-      /css/print.css
-    ]
+    css :main, '/main.css', %w[/css/style.css]
+    css :error, '/error.css', %w[/css/error.css]
+    css :print, '/print.css', %w[/css/print.css]
+    css :loading, '/loading.css', %w[/css/loading.css]
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/js/app/views.coffee b/app/js/app/views.coffee
index 41d8040..ae1be6e 100644
--- a/app/js/app/views.coffee
+++ b/app/js/app/views.coffee
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ class App.ChromeView extends Backbone.View
     'click a':                      'onTabClick'
 
   render: ->
+    $('body').removeClass 'loading'
     $(@el).html JST['editor/chrome']()
 
     @$iframe = @$("iframe")
diff --git a/app/views/layout.haml b/app/views/layout.haml
index 17454e7..3094917 100644
--- a/app/views/layout.haml
+++ b/app/views/layout.haml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
       %title!= title
       != css :main, media: 'screen, projection'
-      != css :print, media: 'print'
+      != css :loading, media: 'screen, projection'
 
       != js_cdn :modernizr
       != "<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Shanti|PT+Sans:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>"
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
             var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
           })();
 
-  %body
+  %body.loading
     != yield
 
     - unless request.xhr?