I was noticing that my webpages often take longer than I'd like to load with the graphics, so I needed to find a good way to cut down on graphic file size.  I found a great program called Ignite that seriously cut the file sizes on all my files typically by more than half.  A set of GIF's that I had were just under 25 Kb, with some tweaking, I got it to under 10 Kb.  Very nice!  Some other graphics at 4 Kb's each, were cut to about 350 bytes!  Individually, a few Kb's isn't a big deal, but it does make a difference added up with all the graphics that make up a web page.

I went thru and optimized every single logo and website graphic, drastically cutting down on file size and load time.  Also, I finally eliminated the Javascript logo fade effect - instead making it a GIF file, and then optimizing that file.  These two GIF's you see below, I actually used a hefty JavaScript script to get it to do that fade effect.  The script itself was like a page in length, so it took up a ton of source code space - it was a such a bother to have to keep having to scroll past it at the top whenever editing my page code.

Also corrected various bits of bad written code cosmetics - such as removing capitalization, self closing and closing various tags that weren't closed, etc.

I did a lot to the start page, and the rest to the border and "fade" graphics.  Also did some bits to the Email Newsletter graphics.