Do you have a better understanding of how to compress your images? There are tools out there to compress your images listed on the tools and links page. There are also some links to other information on the differences between JPEG and GIF and when to use which.

Page Size
HTML Pages are usually pretty small. this page, for example is only 5.12k. There are a couple of ways to reduce your page sizes and unfortunately, it's going to take some thinking to do so.

First of all, each character in your file adds data and therefore adds to the file size. Every empty tag set and reduntantly nested table adds considerable file size.

What is a redundantly nested table? Well, in order to really get a good idea of what we are talking about here, it will be neccesary to look at your HTML code OUTSIDE THE WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) EDITOR. Come on, you can do it! Put on your geek hat and let's go.

Dreamweaver 4 is by far the most surperior WYSIWYG editor out there because you can design or your pages visually and see the HTML code as you go. This is a great way to learn HTML and you have less chances to write ugly, redundant HTML code. Let me take a snapshot and show you what I mean:

See? The HTML is on top and the page layout is on the bottom. I try to keep an eye on what's going on up there because I want to avoid any code that isn't neccesary and I want a nice, easy to edit page.

It's a good idea to draw out your tables on a piece of paper before you being designing a page. That way, you can design the best structure and use the least amount of code.

Our article on "Feeding the Monkey Yourself" talks about how to design in HTML as well uploading files and maintaing services. There are also some great HTML primers listed on the tools and links page. Take a look. HTML is easy to learn and it's fun too!