Thanks everyone. I don't think anyone was trying to be "polite" in regard to the slowness of the pages loading since they are all my clients (everyone in town/city hall) who are paying me to do this. I guess they all have pretty fast internet connection as I do and would never have known there was an issue if you hadn't called it to my attention. Since I can't "see" what you are all talking about could you please let me know what other photos are very large and slowing down what pages exactly? Thanks for the guidance. I am a newbie to website design and this is my first site so this whole thing has been a learning experience from the get-go.

Hiya John,

For the images, it's pretty easy to check out yourself. Go to the page(s) you have on your site and right click any and all images on the page one by one to see what the actual size of the image is. If the image is larger than what is shown on the website page, then the image needs to be resized to the size on the page. I'm going to guess that most of your images are overly large as the first page I loaded took an extremely long time to load.

Basically, when you're making a website, you should always resize your images to the size they will be on the page. Never load images that are not resized first unless it's already the size you need. Causes excess bandwidth pull from people that load the pages, as well as from the server the site is on so it's a win win situation if you do it correctly to start with.

Frankly John, I think you're doing a bang up job. Web site looks clean and neat. Re-sizing the pictures is simply something to do to help others that might visit your web site. If you go through the files on your computer and look at the file sizes for each picture you are using, you should try and re-size all of them to less than 100KB. Depending on the picture you might not be able to get them all down to that size, but as close as you can will be okay.

Then you need to fix your links. Scott is dead on. You have a link to a page in your site going to http://www.midlandparknj.org/internet-usage.html but the actual page is http://www.midlandparknj.org/internet.html

If the page is actually internet-usage in VSD then the best thing to do is save your web site to a new folder and then delete everything from the server, then re-publish from the new folder. That might take a little longer but should insure the proper files are going to the proper place.

I would not do that till you re-size your images. No point in uploading large files first. Good luck!

Hey Guys,
I replaced the header (Per, that was so nice of you, thanks!) and also went through all my files and only found several that were images of what looks like snapshots of different webpages of my site (i.e., IMG_140 , 310k). The rest are well below or near the 100k mark so I think I should be ok. I cheated a little with the broken links. I went into my s-drive and deleted what was old and outdated and renamed the one that was misdirecting folks to a different link. Made all the changes, saved my work, published it and bingo! Hopefully that header was the real culprit for the rest of the images and page to load so slowly.

And a special shoutout to Gunsmoke for the pat on the back...a smal compliment can go a long way to someone starting out!

You're all awesome!

Much appreciated here too. Have fun with CoffeeCup!