Paul Michaud Keep it quick. If your web page takes 2 or 3 minutes to load, people will be hesitant to come back. I recently built a page and used a JPG back ground after attempting to load my own page, I pulled it because of the amount of time it took to load the image. I redesigned it using a GIF file for the background. The page now takes about 10 seconds to load.
Speed is important.
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