Viewing new iWeb site...

I am new to the whole iWeb software [actually we just bought our first mac for christmas]. I have published a couple web pages. Both have had quite a few photos in them. My question is that when i access the pages from my work pc they take a long time to download. A friend of mine has noticed the same from a computer he uses back home in NY. My question is..
Is the download speed due to who hosts my webpage??
I should note my work requires me to be on the internet quite often, so my connection and computer are top of the line. [cable connetion].
One of my sites is going to be for a youth group so i want to make sure kids will be able to access it easily without a lot of waiting.
Thanks!!

usually you shouldn't need anything over 640 by 4XX
personally i even make thumbnail versions of my graphics as well, but if you downsize all your photos you are using to no bigger than 640x??? then you should see a nice improvement in speed.
but if you have a graphic that needs to be larger than the 640 size, you need to downsize it to what you need. i.e. 700x??? so it will fit natively and not need to be stretched.
does this help?
i did this with my site : http://www.brianmedia.net
and it loads a lot faster than before.

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