All right look......we have all wanted to give up - but you will never learn if YOU DON'T DO IT. What you have done wrong is you inserted the image at full size and told either dreamweaver or "probably" frontpage to resize it. What you need to do is resize that image in photoshop and then insert it into the design. Don't get toooo frustrated - it doesn't look all that bad.
From what I can see - your design is decent - I would change the color pink to a different color. And if you ask me - I would actually loose the white home all together. The wooden pictures work wonderfully (since your colors are warm and so are they), but the white picture stands out like a sore thumb. Just food for thought. I hope that you continue making headway.
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Greg