A few of my friends and I have image-rich personal pages. Yup they take a while to load. My current personal site has a large banner, which I have forced to be a background image through CSS, so that it works at both 800 * 600 and 1024 * 768 with no scroll bar across the bottom. However, this brilliant method also means that banner loads last, not something I would recommend on a client/business site.
Since my personal site is exactly that, and not related to my business in anyway, if people don't like the loading and leave I couldn't give a stuff. Those that remain are rewarded :)
In so far as a business site goes, I think along the lines of grabbing peoples attention straight away, if they have to sit there waiting, then you've lost a customer. I try and keep banners simple and the first image to load.
too many graphics = too long to load = no customers.
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