working on a web site

Im working on redoing my site and I like what I have gotten so far but I had a question for some of you, I don't like the wait time it takes for the images to load and I was wondering if I saved them in a smaller file size with it reduce the quality of the image when you view it at full screen on my site.

www.ba-photos.com

I am still working on so its not 100% the way it will look when finished.

I arbitrarily grabbed one of your images, and it was 1.47MB. Holy crap! Yes, you need to shrink these down, 150KB is probably about the max size you should be using. Also your page should use *thumbnails* of your images for the navigation, not the original/huge images, even the 150K ones after you shrink them. So you need to make 2 versions of every photo, the thumbnail and the displayed/large version.

Dave

I sized them down to 200k and they look like crap

Did you use PS "save for web"? They look ok to me, but of course they are less perfect than your quality 12 originals....

Dave

no I resized them exporting them out of light room I will try the PS way and see thanks for your help

So you got your theme working...

Images are WAY too large. Must be around 200k max for large images, but around 150k recommended.

The Portfolio main page is empty.

You need either a Portfolio page or a Gallery, it seems redundant to have both.

Off site links in navigation menu are a big no no. Gallery links to smugmug and Blog leads to pages off your site and thus no way to get back to your site (not integrated). You should work to making your website standalone. If you want people to buy prints off smugmug, make a page about selling prints and then ask users to buy them at a specific link.

Your theme (if you bought the wordpress one) should have it's own blog, so no need to link to another blog. If you have a seperate blog and want to import. Using the wordpress admin, simply run the export on the old blog and then import that file into your new theme's blog.