If you've been using the web for a long while, you'll recall
that it was once devoid of pretty much anything bar text. And
even though dial-up speeds were to broadband what an asthmatic
slug is to Usain Bolt, the early web was surprisingly nippy to
navigate and use.  But then images arrived, swiftly followed by
sound, movies, Flash and other speed sapping technologies.
Things slowed down. A lot. And while improved connections have
done much to boost speed, designers still could do more to help
themselves and their audiences.  Save for web  SAVE FOR WEB:
Using Photoshop's 'Save for Web' option lets you shrink your
images down to size  First and foremost, decide whether
multimedia components are required at all. If they don't really
add anything, ditch them. If they do, figure out if they can be
downloaded on request. Again, this is largely about perception –
users who click on something are more willing to wait for
content to download than if you essentially force it on them, at
which point the same download s