Faster Page Loading

After getting my web page published I had some friends who do web design look at it and they said it loaded slow and the pics were a bit too large, which they thought was slowing it down.
After talking to some helpful souls here on the Apple Discussion groups, I can see where their sites loaded faster because they used an external web program to design their site. Well, I'm not near so advanced and just learning iWeb.
How can I get my site to load faster? Re-do all the pics. using ones I have reduced in size before importing?
Also, is there a way to get rid of the album names that are at the top of each page? Ideally I'd keep a welcome page, then go to a photo intro page where I could have small thumbnails of each pic and have that pic link to the album.
But there is no reason to do a photo intro page with links if I can't get rid of all the albums listed at the top of each page. They automatically link the name to the next album.
Here is my first attemp at our family web page:
http://web.mac.com/allie1254/iWeb/bnsrv/Home.html
Thanks for any input.
Allie

Allie
I have about 200 pages and 3 Gb of space used up, altering things at this stage is a major headache, so my first tip would be plan your site well.
I started by creating a site called say 'main', in that site I created my main pages that appear in the nav bar (welcome, photos, movies etc).
Taking the example of my photos, I created a second site called photosS in to which I created all the pages that load when you choose any of the links in the photo page ( ie photos00-02, photos03-05 etc) I turned off the nav bar in this site
Then I created a third site called photos00-02 and a fourth site called photos03-05 and so on. In each of these sites I created pages for each photo album associated with that grouping all with the nav bar off.
I elected to create images and links within the site to navigate, rather than rely on the nav bar (ie return to all photos)
You create your links through the inspector pallette
So if I've been reasonably clear you will see:- from my photo page, if you select archives/00-02 you are taken to that page (which lists all my photo albums from 00-02) which resides in the site photosS, if you choose 'my birthday 01' you are taken to that photo album page which resides in the site photos00-02
make sure all your site and page names are unique and don't contain spaces, there are instances when you get away with not doing, but it's easier to just avoid doing so all together.
Yes I started with a blank page, well I essentially stripped everything out of a template. Some text boxes won't delete, but the text will.
Hope this helps, hope you can read and understand what I've said, my eyes don't work so well at this time of night and I can't read much of what I have written.

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