"My Albums" page question

Does anyone else with a "My Albums" page find that it takes a while to open it in iWeb. All my other pages open pretty fast except for that one.

The My Albums page is a slick looking way to present albums but, like the blog, it generates huge files.
The other problem is that your captions can't be read by spiders and you can't add descriptive text.
The Photos page is not quite so bad but still has the same problems.
Then you are stuck with the default slideshow.
For a site like yours I would have thought it would be better to have a page of thumbnails with "spider readable" captions and text which, when clicked, display a larger image.
This can be done the hard way by making a new page for every enlarged image using the thumbnails as links to open in a new window.
You can make life easier by grouping thumbnails to display more than one image per page which cuts down on the work involved.
I've been working on a site to show all this sort of stuff and I'll send you some examples later today when I get the flash version finished. This is way quicker to implement.
The site is not nearly finished and, like iwebformusicians.com, keeps growing, otherwise I would give the URL here.
The method of having a thumbnail, caption and product description with the option of a larger view seems to be the most successful and popular way to display items on commercial sites.
I am resisting the temptation to have the enlarged image appear on the same page as the thumbs as I find this to be slow, distracting and irritating on sites that have this arrangement.

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