Dreamweaver site very slow

[EuanW]

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.

[outlaw2001it]

Welcome to TechIMO. I checked out your webpage...loaded fine using Opera....very fast. Wait to see if anybody else has problems.

[Stevie Blaze]

The page is a little slow for me (firefox 3) but nothing majour.

[theGlitch]

I opened it using Chrome and it was fairly quick (but I am on a university's wire). My suggestion to you is to switch all background images to GIF format.

GIFs are far more compressed than JPEG. You will lose a little of the detail, but that shouldn't matter with a background image. Also (unless I'm mistaken) it appears you have the text as an image too? I would just use a style sheet to make the text look nice. There is no reason to have that much text as an image.

This will also help with the general loading issue because you can then lower the size of the background image and just set it to repeat. Look into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

[exally]

i suggest where u can is to have small images and use CSS style sheets to repeat that one image over and over again, thus decreasing downloaded images...

[EuanW]

Cool, thanks for the advice and your time guys, I'll give it a go and let you know!