Large image files take a long time to download. If you have gone to sites that offer free buttons, bullets, bars and backgrounds you need to do some work on the images. Often such sites offer large navigation buttons which take up more space on the page than your content. Reduce those buttons to a smaller size. Give every page the minimum nutrients for proper growth.
Every page needs a descriptive title.
Ten Tips for New Web Page Designers. Titles, headings, top of page content and meta tags are used by the search engines to index your pages. If you want to be found by someone who might search on your topic use all three. Get organized from the very first moment. Put all the files for your web site in the same folder.