yes , I have preformed all the housekeeping requirements.

I have tried to make the site an simple as possible.
and started from scratch a few times now, but the duplicate images keep coming back..

I have started on first page with every link I want on all pages , a master page. then added pages duplicating the fist..

all may link points are exactly the same, in the same location, actions are the same..

I am servicing rural areas that still have dial up or very very slow satellite.
I have 19 images on 11 pages that over 190 duplicate jpg files in the buttons allone

To clean-up the files and images I've been loading the website that needs pruning within VSD deleting any unnecessary or experimental pages. I then go to my images files and copy the files folder to the desk top (this serves as a backup copy in case the unexpected happens). I then [SAVE] the page from within VSD and you have an updated files folder. Then delete your backup folder AFTER you've verified your fresh folder.

@Mike - Thanks for the tip..

My issue is that I have hundreds of duplicate file created by VSD.
and my clients are either on dialup or satellite.

so my site however small, takes a longer than other competitors websites.

Is there any chance of a master page.. being created.. all static website images; buttons; link buttons; text are called from there..

I like VSD it has given me a very good understanding into website design but I did not think I would be looking at the having to manually create pages, after 3 weeks of purchasing VSD

It's been almost a year since I created my site, but I'm pretty sure this is what I did...I created the menu bar on the index page, with the mouseovers, and then duplicated the page as described above.

I have to upload using DirectFTP (issues w/hosting provider prevent using "Publish" button), and for a long time whenever I would upload from the fiels folder, it would be 137 files all together. But at some point recently..I don't know if it was after I used v7 for the first time, that number became more like 480. I'm not sure what precipitated the huge jump in # of files, as I haven't added any pages - only changed info on existing pages.

Would following Bruzer's video tutorial and re-saving clean it out and bring it back to the 137 (ish) it was before? I'm about to hand over the site to a new webmaster, and I'd like to address this (and fix it if I can) before I do.

Thanks!

One thing to remember when adding images to a web site is their size. Images that are large will take longer to load, and if you use a large image and just re-size it on a page it still has the same file size. For most of my images I prepare them first by "compressing" them, which makes the file size as small as possible. And as mentioned by Mike, having a file with all your images in it is good in case of a crash, but mainly to make them easy to find.
I usually keep the original images and the compressed images in the same folder, renaming the compressed files.

Good point, Tim - Optimizing your photos in another program (Photoshop, etc.) before adding them to the site will help with speeding up the site.
Also, some of the duplicate images might be in the back up version of the site that VSD uploads along with your site. In case anything ever goes wrong - you have a copy of your site ready to go.