Photos on site slow to load

[illiadesigns]

Hi.The photos on my wesite load slowly. I notice that other sites have photos
that seems a part of the background. Please help.

my site is illiadesigns.com
thanks

 

[DI]

Optimize your photos use " IrfanView "
http://www.irfanview.com/

 

[Paul C]

Hi illia
I think you haver probably used frontpage to resize the images. This is not
a good way as it only tells the browser to display the image at a certain
size but the original large size is downloaded to the browser. If you look
at the picture of the little girl in the center she is diplaying at 300
pixels X 300 pixels but when I veiwed the image in photoshop the dimensions
are 1844 x 1850. this is the problem. re size the images in a photo editor
like photoshop then save them as a jpg upload the images to the server this
will sort it
If you dont have photoshop or another editor you can download this free one

http://www.irfanview-stop.com/index.asp?s=go-uk&a=irfanview&kw=irfanview
Paul M

 

[illiadesigns]

I have HP photo editing software. I saved the photo under small files and
dooing so reduced the size dramatically, however the picture still has to
load. Did I do this right?

 

[Paul C]

Hi
You need to resize the images to the size you need and then save as a jpg.
I am not sure if the hp software can do this. Why not give infraveiw a go
you will be able to do the resize there. I have had another look on the web
and the problem is still there.
Paul C

 

[DI]

On your home page
adpic3.jpg is 229,616 bytes
adpic2.jpg is 80,557 bytes
The same with all your pictures
Bring them down to 10,000 -20,000 bytes