Unless your site is a parody of Web jargon, don't make it sound like one. Waiting for pages to load is a distraction, no matter what other expectations your audience may have. If your site has an All Affect profile you won't eliminate your large image files but you should employ every trick you can to lower wait times for your pages. Instill confidence in your primary audience. Provide update information so that people know when someone last changed the page.
Visual design is susceptible to the equivalent of misspellings, inaccuracies and grammatical errors.
Provide for users with low-end systems and browsers unless you have hard data showing that your primary audience has the same capabilities you do. Use ALT tags to show text when images do not load or will not display. Warn users when links lead to large image or media files or graphics-intensive pages and sites. The New York Times . Remember that people seek out different media models as cues to the experiences they will get, and they are not always in the mood to have the same kind of experience.