Compressing photos for iWeb

Ok, is it true that if I drag and drop my photos from iPhoto directly into iWeb they are not compressed at all!!!?? Is this why some of my pages load so slowly? I am about to start a new site and put about 30 photos directly from iPhoto into the first page. If what I said above is true, what is the quickest and most efficient way to compress. Can I do this after I import into iWeb, or possibly in iPhoto before I drag and drop into iWeb?
Thanks!

Hello Apnewbie...
I'm not sure of what the upshot of your post was, but
definitely do whatever you see fit based on your own
experiments. I don't use the slideshow function or
photo pages at all, so I can't really say for sure.
I've just been hearing a lot about people with
multi-GIGAbyte sized Domain files with a very large
delta between Domain and published site folder sizes.
I'm going out on a limb, but I'm postulating that
this all has something to do with publishing errors
or more likely Domain file corruption or increasing
publishing times.
This is all just my opinion and what works for me.
I'm sure that if Apple wanted it this way, they
would have told everyone to preprocess their images
and the lot. But drag and drop is the mantra, so be
it!
.......... Lorna says ................................................
James, I know just enough to know that what you and Apnewbie are talking about is serious but not enough to know to do anything about fixing whatever Tom fool thing I've done in the past with my large photos.
What you said about increased publishing time struck a chime in my head. My publishing time is getting to be very long; I realize that "long" is subjective and that one might expect longer publishing times with more pages to publish, but still, I wonder whether I am not taxing my iWeb system with too-large photos.
Ok, correction: Now I am taking more care about what I put on my pages, but a lot of photos went onto my pages dead bang huge, I mean, as huge as Montana, and then I whittled them down to my palate On The Page. So now I learn that the Domain file is married to my large photo files and won't let go. Get along little dogies! Aw! 8-(
I did a Utility > Repair Permissions today and think I had better buy or download one of the two programs that two people here suggested I could use. At this point I do not want to lose my website because I haven't been practicing due diligence. I know that I have people's notes printed out and stuck in my folder, though.
I also back up my Domain file frequently. The question I always ask myself is: Can I afford to lose the work I've just done? And the answer is the obvious. So I now have about 10 backups. Yes, sometimes I forget about doing it. Usually the times when I work until 4:00 AM and get out of bed again at 8 AM. One time Varkgirl woke up in Florida and told me to go to bed in California.
So OPTIMIZER was one maintenance thing. Where can I get it? And Peelie suggested another program and then went off on a vacation with his family so I can't ask him.
I just made a page for a manager of a southern style red white and blue rock group. It was fun! The Newbie had fun!
OH: I discovered something. While trying to make a horizontal bar totally level on that page I ended up also re-positioning the counter box. I fully expected having to re-tweak the .js page after the Far-too-Long publishing process finished, but when I finally got to the page in Safari, THE MUSIC WAS STILL WORKING! But I believed that any kind of work on a page made it necessary to re-do the html/js file..... so....... although I am not complaining at all..... I am here to say that not always does one have to re-tweak. What happened to break the law of Re-Tweaking?
Lorna in Southern California

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