Slowness of rollovers in iWeb

I finally straightened out how to make rollovers in iWeb and have incorporated them into my site.
http://www.thomasbricker.com/
What I wonder is why rollovers and load times are so slow on a site hosted on the Mobile Me server?
It has always been this way. Seems to still be the case.
Why?
Is it the way that iWeb constructs it's CSS?
I have tried opening an iWeb page in Dreamweaver and it kind of falls apart.
Looks like iWeb uses AP Divs and CSS style sheets.
I just cant figure out how they wrap the structure together.
Is there any way to make an iWeb Mobile Me hosted website any zippier?

MobileMe is definitely slower than the server I use. I have a MobileMe account and test sites on it before optimizing and uploading to Host Excellence.
The Apple server has a restricted bandwidth and therefore limits the number of viewers who can access you site in any given time period which makes it unsuitable for commercial or popular sites.
My hosting company cost is only slightly more than MobileMe and that is more than justified by the extra speed, reliability and available functions such as the ability to run scripts and set up mail forwards for processing forms.
You can't really put a value on good tech support of which MobileMe has almost zero!

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Hover over the image on this page and see if this is what you are looking for:
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Flash Album Exporter is good and JAlbum is incredible and has free storage too if you need it...
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Ok Guys,
I finally got it to work!
Way too much work but I know believe it is possible.
Here is my glorious creation:
http://web.me.com/thomasbricker/RolloverTest/RolloverPage.html
Couple of things:
OT, I couldnt get your code to work:
But I could get this code to work:
<script type="text/javascript">
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function mouseOut()
document.rollover_one.src ="url of original image"
</script>
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Can this scripting work on a site that is published to a local folder? (I couldnt get it to work)
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Apple, Please make this whole operation about 100 times easier in future releases.
You use rollovers on your own site so how about working them into your software. : )
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Your Govt Fabrics and Leather page contains 1746 files that must be loaded for that page.
It took me nearly 30 seconds to load your page entirely with Safari over a very fast internet connection. Firefox took about the same, maybe a few seconds quicker and Chrome 24 seconds.
There seems to be 3 distinct sets of identifying images below the samples:
, and
To reduce the number of individual files to be loaded why not create 3 images, one with the 4 items, one with the 3 items, one with the 5 items and use them instead of using individual images under each sample. That will greatly down on the number offiles needed to be loaded.
Also using more than one page to display the samples would make each indivicual page load so much quicker than all on one page.
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OT

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Hello,
I'm an independent film maker and I am looking to set up my own website to show my work on. Seeing how iWeb 09 finally allows you to publish your website to a host via FTP, I wondered if anyone could answer some questions for me - I have googled some stuff but have not come up with any satisfactory answers.
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Inigo wrote:
...is it simply a case of dragging a QT movie file into iWeb 09, publish it via FTP, and hey presto, people can view my films in high quality on the web? Is it really that simple or is there a catch?
George ~ Yes, there's a catch. Your videos will become part of iWeb's Domain file which may make it slow to open in iWeb, make backups and re-publish everything (if needed). Better to upload your videos separately to your server and embed them into your iWeb site.
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...For high definition video, YouTube was recently ranked the best of several video sites:
Which HD video Web service is the best?
See also this article:
YouTube officially enables HQ in embedded videos
Also, I may want to show some videos encoded with Flash, not QT. Is that still possible using iWeb 09?
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Inigo wrote:
...is it simply a case of dragging a QT movie file into iWeb 09, publish it via FTP, and hey presto, people can view my films in high quality on the web? Is it really that simple or is there a catch?
George ~ Yes, there's a catch. Your videos will become part of iWeb's Domain file which may make it slow to open in iWeb, make backups and re-publish everything (if needed). Better to upload your videos separately to your server and embed them into your iWeb site.
iWeb '09 makes this easy if you upload your videos to YouTube: iWeb '09 has a new YouTube widget to embed your videos into your iWeb page:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/#widgets
...For high definition video, YouTube was recently ranked the best of several video sites:
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See also this article:
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If you're concerned that some PC users won't have QT and won't want to install it, I think if you go the embedded YouTube route, almost all PC or Mac users will be able to view your videos — because "videos on YouTube are streamed through an Adobe Flash player."
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http://www.happyadam.com
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http://web.mac.com/makentosh/iWeb/tipsfromtheiceberg/Blog/416F8EE3-F511-47E8-84F E-80851728F54B.html
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