Dreamweaver site very slow loading

[EuanWilliams]

Hi, I am new to this forum and fairly new to web design.

I made a website for a customer in Dreamweaver MX using mainly jpeg's for the design and layout and now I have uploaded it for testing it takes ages to load each page until they are cached. I put it down to the size of the images so I compressed them which helped a bit but not much. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can speed it up?

Many thanks in advance, Euan.

p.s. the url is

http://www.bkboilerservices.co.uk/beta

if it helps at all.

 

[traingamer]

It's not generally recommended to have your content represented as an image. It's not searchable or able to be indexed by search engines.

If you replaced the background jpg with a simple tiled background (say 20 pixels high) and had your context as text (<h1>, <p>, etc.), it would cut the weight of your home page approximately in half. If you replaced it with just a background color, it would speed it up still more.

Personally, I would also replace the graphic buttons with css based buttons/rollovers, but once they're cached, that isn't as big a deal.

Greg
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[johnwm]

Speed is the least of your problems! Your site will be almost entirely blank to search engine bots and to text-only browsers, and, because of the compression you have used, looks quite tatty from decreased resolution. Google for 'semantic layout' and 'modern web design', read carefully, learn HTML and CSS, redo the site from the ground up and then come back to us.

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[EuanWilliams]

Okay, thanks for the advice guys, I'll give it a go!