Load takes ages - help!

Hi all. I'm a newbie here and have put together what I think is a decent looking website, but the page takes forever to load. Any advice or tricks?

www.carringtonfisk.com/newsite/index.html

Please make comments and give ideas if you have any. Thanks!

How about using less images and more css....

Photoshop (or similar) programs are great, but if you use it to export your entire site you will continue to have image heavy web sites with long load times. Alot of what your page has can be done with CSS like co10depunkk said.

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Okay, so I tried exporting in ImageReady using CSS, because that's really the only way I could figure out, and I have a lot of misaligned areas with white space. I checked and rechecked my slices to make sure there were no overlaps, and I"m at a loss.

I thought at first that there was latency at the server end, but a wget of just the index.html page ruled that out. Your page has almost 70 images, and this is almost certainly it. Depending on how the server is configured, this could require as many as 70 connections from the browser back to the server, and that's going to take time. It looks like your page could work with closer to 10 images, 20 tops, so I'd suggest having a go at reimplementing. Some of the boxes with text as images could work and still look fine with regular text instead of images. I didn't check the HTML or CSS, but most of what would normally be a background seems to be foreground images tiled together, as though the page was designed in an image editor and then carved into many images that fit together somehow in an elaborate patchwork instead of a background with content on top.

First, thank you all for your responses thus far. I adjusted the output in ImageReady for CSS instead of tables. It still "tiles" the background. While it loads faster, it is still quite slow. Is there a relatively easy way to do what ioncube suggests - use a BG image and lay the text on top? I know I probably sound like an idiot, but this is my first real attempt at an aesthetic website.

Have you read any tutorials on html/css?

I'm trying to make my way through a book right now, but it's a bit overwhelming. I was hoping to be able to use Photoshop/ImageReady to create a nice site since I'm intimately familiar with Photoshop. Perhaps it's a bit unreasonable, but I was hoping for a quick fix.

Being a little blunt here but.....if your hoping for a quick fix your on the right track, because what you see is what a "quick fix" will get you. Web design/ development is not easy. The subject is broad and the learning never stops, always changing and expanding. If you want a nice site I suggest reading that book while typing out the tutorials, learning on your way.

You'll be hard pressed to find someone to "give" you the answers here or on any board.

Good Luck,
Scott

Well ... as you have noticed, using PS to generate you HTML isn't all that great and there's a reason for that ... PS in not an HTML editor. PS is a GFX program, not to create websites but to create graphics.

Many people, including myself, use PS to create a "design" for our website. We use the same way you would use the good ol' pen&paper method

Learn CSS, learn HTML and reate your site using notepad or some other HTML Editor.