As you're designing your new web site, you'll be tempted with web design ideas that could turn into fatal mistakes.
Visitors are an impatient lot and often times click out of a slow loading site, never to return.
Another way to cut down on load time is to reduce your graphic in actual size as much as you can without distorting the graphic or picture. A very handy tool that I use is IrfanView. It supports many graphic formats. I have been using this for several years now and just love it. This site has their own collection of free animations, backgrounds, bars, bullets, clip art, and icons.