Help on iWeb or Slide Show

Question

Hi All, Hoping I can get some guidance on a project. My cat died recently and we're creating a history of his life to announce to his family & friends. At first, I created a PowerPoint Presentation using Office Mac 2008. It came out great; 28 slides. One problem, it's 35 MB, so it is too large to attach to an e-mail; whether Yahoo or Gmail.
Next step was to reduce the size of the file, that did not work nor did compression: still too large. Oddly, I've received work PP Presentations far larger as e-mail attachments, but apparently Yahoo & Gmail have a 25MB per file limit.
So, I got the idea to export PPP as a movie. Yeah, hope. Hope dashed as movie large was still 31 MB, and if I go any smaller, no one in their right mind can see it.
So, then I thought to create as slide show in iPhoto, then export as movie. Ultimately, same issues with regard to size.
Now, I'm in iWeb thinking to create a web page to hold the movie or slide show. Well, the iMovie is greater than 10 MB and it won't drag into the iWeb movie page. Yet, I can drag in the slide show, but it appears on a photo page.
So, now I'm in iWeb, with a photo page, with all the slide pics in order. I clicked on the "play slideshow" to see how it would work, but it does not appear to work, unless I double click on one pic and then go each next pic using the "next" icon.
The last step would be to insert the music I had, but when in iWeb, I do "insert" go to "choose" the music list opens right up, pick the song. A new box opens and says "drag pic here." Only one pic will drag in, not all.
1) Is there an easier way to add running music to all the slides?
2) If so, can I time the music to each slide as I was able to do in iPhoto slide show suing "adjustments?"
3) Is there an easier way to simply accomplish what I'm trying to do, as this is getting maddening how you simply cannot post 28 small slides, most are pics.
Any feedback is welcomed,
Thanks

Answer 1

QTK & Old Toad,
Big Thanks Guys, it all worked out. I followed QTK when I was initially responding and began to understand how to make it work. I joined Mobile.me and uploaded my QuickTime Movie. Then gave it a trial run both at me.com & as if I was sending the link to others.
Yea! it worked! Old Toad, your additional info is great as I was giving thought to size and how some in the rural areas may not have fast connection speeds. My cuz in Missouri just watched it and said all was good.
What all this has taught me is certainly how to interact both MS Office Power Point ( I have MSOffice for Mac 2008) and iPhoto. I utilized PP to create a base slideshow, adding text to slides, sizing of the pictures, timing the music, etc., as PP appears to allow much more creativity & modifications, font colors, styles, etc. Then Export the PP Presentation as jpegs to a subfolder. Then import those jpegs into iPhoto to create the slideshow. While it was a process over a few days, it was well worth the learning. And, why some may roll their eyes and say "Ovey, he could have done it this simply" I feel empowered learning the long route as I usually can visualize the concept and flow, but sometimes have weaker skills on the computing side.
Again, much thanks!!!!!