not at all - I am undergoing an overhaul of the site and your comments are valuable.

regarding the logo - does it make sense to you? the concept was taking the mundane and tuning into something "colorful?" I wanted it animated because that is about 80% of the work I get (After Effects - not Flash - still gotta learn that)

I am thinking of eventually re-creating many of the animations like the logo in flash (I posted a thread asking for help re- the opening page animation)
http://www.WebProWorld.com/viewtopic.php?p=38050

When I first created the site - it was my first and I had a cable modem - now I have about 38k (living in no-mans land) and I see all the flaws. The Khoja gallery I did not design so there is not a lot I can do there.

what would you suggest when it comes down to good image optimization without the loss of detail? I have heard of special software that can crunch jpegs a lot nicer than fireworks or image ready? Have you heard of anything like this?

Again - thank you for taking the time to check out the site - I do not find your comments negative - but would love advice on how to approach "optimizing" the site... without cutting out any of the sections (as you can tell - I am sort of mid stream with the re-design - I am trying to clean up the format for that all the sections act the same way... the animation compression issues I brought up a couple of weeks ago on a thread here - and while I have tried some of the new settings suggested - the image degradation is really bad... still trying out other options.0