Iweb site feedback

Hi everyone,
I am an athletic director at a small school and have been using iweb to create an athletics site (http://web.me.com/mauiprep). Before I go live with the site, I thought I would bounce some ideas/feedback off this group. I am hoping to do all these things while using iweb.
Here are some issues I am dealing with:
1. Really slow. I am hoping web maestro might help with this somewhat, but I am not holding my breath. Any other thoughts? The page file sizes don't seem too large compared to different websites, yet it still takes a long time.
2. Same components on all pages. Because the basic structure of the site remains unchanged regardless of what page you are on, is there a way to not have to keep reloading the "static components"?
3. Page within page. For the various team pages, I have created fake tabs (recent news, schedules, records) that take you to different content pertaining to that team. However, they aren't acting as true tabs because they just take you to a whole brand new page (which takes a long time to load!!). How can keep the tabs within one page?
Any other thoughts?

I don't know why your first page takes so long to load. There's only 10 files that have to load and the largest is only 79 KB. It does take a ridiculously long time to load. You can see what files are loading by going to the Window->Activity menu option while in the page. That will tell you what files are part of the page and their size. Some background images are taking forever to load.
What theme are you using? The loading time is way beyond normal. I checked some of my sites today and they loaded very quickly. All I can think of, and it's a shotgun approach, is to do a Publish All to MobileMe and see if that won't refresh and speed up the load time. I'm not sure WebMaestro will help all that much as most all of the files are very small to start with. But I've not used it so can't be sure.
2 - no, not with iWeb. With other web deveopement apps you could load a file to a folder and then link to that from all pages it's to be on.
3 - again, not easily with iWeb. You can embed a page within another page but to click on a link and have that page pop up in a section of the page would require a good knowledge of javascript. Maybe Cyclosaurus or Wyodor could give you an idea of how to implement that.

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