Originally Posted by BV

Need better design for image optimization:

for example this image http://www.theappletwins.com/image3/NewTour1.jpg needs to be sliced, headers and photos should all be sliced separately, photos need to be optimized jpegs and header and other colored area should be gifs, you could cut down about 200kb just here alone.

and this image is ridiculous: http://www.theappletwins.com/image3/NewTour2.jpg same thing, slice it up, use background images in tables and lose the graphic text images replace wit text , use background images to achieve the same look, you could save another 300k or more there

all the jpegs in the scroller can be optimized and sharpened and save another 200k

basically, you need to learn to design better or hire a real one

trying not to sound like a troll but u asked for help and i speak the truth