Downloading Pictures and Buttons Quicker

I have a very nice web site, http://www.explorencmountains.com that takes a few minutes to completely download if someone is using a dial up. I really would like for it to download within 15 seconds for a dial up user. I am not interested in removing my pictures.

If you are using IIS 6, you can get a product such as zipenable that will turn on iis 6's native compression.  If you are using Apache, I believe mod_gzip would do the trick.  It's hard to compress JPEG though, you might get 3% compression out of it at a loss of 10% of your processor.  It's best to compress the static files such as .js and .css, since then it can be cached easily by the web daemon.  If you want, you can also compress the dynamic page like .asp, .aspx -- the drawback to compression dynamic pages is that itll eat up cpu cycles because itll have to compress on every request.  I use compression and it saves me over 70% bandwidth.