Animated Gifs
Animation Factory
Several thousand free Animations, web graphics and clipart items.
Over 100,000 professionally designed animations and graphics. Very
extensive selection. Fee Based.
CoolArchive
Animations
300+ animations with previews, plus an array of other free graphics.
Logo generator and button maker too.
Flash and Animation
FlashKit
Online resource for
Macromedia flash development.
Flash
3
When Shockwave is too much and an animated GIF
is not enough, try Flash from Macromedia. Download
for a 30 day trial.
Do It Yourself Online Creators
keep in mind that
most free generators will display their name on the banner.
Crecon.com
Banner, Button, and Logo Creator.
Banner
Generator
AdDesigner.com
Animation.com
Use Animation.com to instantly create professional animated banners for advertising and promoting your business. No design skills required.
Animation
Online
Create animated banners, animated buttons, and displays from templates.
QuickBanner
Use their tools with banner blanks to create animated and flash banners.
Free and fee based.
Banner Exchanges
BPath
Formerly Hyperbanner.
LinkBuddies
Banner
Xchange MegaList
Home
Banner Exchange
Exchange-It
Neo
Banners
Click
For Click
ButtonXchange.com
A new free link exchange service, buttonXchange.com makes use of 88-by-31
pixel buttons, rather than full-sized banners. Simply sign up and submit
your button and it'll be displayed randomly on other participants' pages.
Find information on browser
compatibility and testing your site for cross-browser compatibility.
Help Sites
AnyBrowser.com
View your site through various browsers. See how it looks to viewers with
MSIE, Netscape & WebTV.
NetMechanic
Explains why you may be seeing browser display errors and recommends
steps to avoid these problems.
Browser
Chart
From Webmonkey tells you what each version of the major browsers supports,
including AOL, NN, IE, Opera, and many more.
Download
All the Browsers
Click to CNet and select the browser you want to download to your
computer.
- Clipart, Photos and Graphics
Some are free, some cost . . . just
be sure you don't infringe on any copyrights . . .
Clipart:
FreeGraphicLand
Links to a huge number of
different clipart sites.
AAA
Clipart
Find thousands of free clip art
images for your website, in several dozen categories.
ABC Giant
Free graphics, backgrounds,
bars, buttons, bars and more. Also has links to other clipart directories.
All
Clipart Site
Find 1000's of clipart, animations, images, web graphics, music and
more.
Awesome
Clipart
Nice collection of free
clipart in a variety of categories.
Barry's
Clipart
An
award winning, free resource for all types of clip art.
Art
Today
Thousands of clip art images, web icons and backgrounds, animations,
fonts, and photos. Photos.com and ClipArt.com are websites under
ArtToday.com. Fee based.
Canada
eh
Tribute to Canada. Includes many free Canadian web
graphics, always new ones. Free and custom originals.
Classroom
Clipart
Contains a large 13,700 collection of photographs, clipart,
and historical images designed for use for educational purposes.
Clipart.com
Unlimited access to more than 2,600,000 clipart images, animations, photos, fonts,
and sounds!
Clipart
Center
Over 7,500 free graphics, keyword search, or browse by category.
Clipart
Connection
17,000+ Free images in 50 categories plus hundreds of clipart related links. One of the largest single clip art resources on the
web. No pop-ups, yeah!
Clipart
for Kids
Over 1,500 clip art images that may be displayed on
family-safe personal web sites only.
Clipart
Searcher
Innovative, customized search forms designed specifically to locate clip-art, icons, backgrounds, bullets, lines, buttons and other graphics.
Clipart
Castle
Free clipart, animations, fonts and more. Free high quality images, easy to browse.
Free Clip
Images
Free Graphics, 1000's of free animations, backgrounds, lines, icons, and lots more.
Real
Estate Clipart
Find over 100 original free
real estate graphics and over 2800 available to members.
Tropical
and Hawaiian Clipart
Free Hawaiian and Tropical clipart. Includes clipart of
Dolphins, whales, sharks, fish, fruit, words with a Hawaiian theme, dividers,
animations and more.
Useless
Graphics
A huge collection of unusual, hard to find animated
graphics. Easy to navigate, no annoying pop-ups.
Graphics & Photos:
ArtINeed
Royalty free, membership required. Try their free three day trial with
unlimited downloads of clipart, illustrations, photographs, web arts,
fonts and sounds during your subscription period.
Author's
Image
French photographers show
images of world wide travel and nature, available on CD or as single
pictures.
Brand
X Pictures
Search and buy single images or browse through an extensive CD collection.
Budget
Stock Photo
Offering a small selection of images on CD, man made topics, and nature
and travel. Free samples.
Bush
Photos Fine Photography
Images of landscape, nature, people, still life, and wildlife from
Australia. Secured online shopping for CD-ROM collections or single
pictures. Free samples.
Catterall-Heart,
Garth
Images of birds, pets, plants, trees, flowers,
people, and landscapes of the North San Francisco Bay area.
Comstock
Images
Specializes in commercial
stock imagery, especially model released "Lifestyle" and
"Business" imagery. Sells both Royalty-Free and Rights Protected
images.
Corbis BizPresenter.
Enjoy over 1.6 million
images online - the largest digital collection on the web. Enjoy
royalty-free or traditional licensing of images.
Cyber
Photo
Supplier of professional
hi-resolution and super hi-resolution royalty-free digital images.
Digital
Vision
The world's premier
provider of thousands of quality, royalty free imagery and moving footage.
EyeWire
Choose from collections of: photography, illustrations, web art, and more.
Tools and resources also.
FarmPhoto
Order agricultural images on CD-ROM, or browse
and download photographs at no cost.
Foodprints
Images of international menus and food photos are available for
download.
FotoAsia
Images of Asia, including Singapore, Hong Kong, and Nepal. Featuring
keyword search functions, secured online shopping, and free download of
digital catalogs.
FotoFood
Select images from categories ranging from beverages to vegetables.
Photographs are available on CD or via ISDN transfer.
Free
Stock Photos
Collection of photos in topics for space, Christian, Israel, plants, Rome,
scenery, sky, plus more.
GettyImages
Huge collection of quality photos for use on the web and for print. Custom
images services available.
Harpy
Digital
Exotic beetles, moths, and gargoyles as well as
vintage war, romance, and boudoir photographs available as CD sets or
single images.
Hemera
Collection of photographic images,
photo-objects, and vector graphics, available for online purchase and
download.
Hi-Rez
Backgrounds
Small selection of images available on CD. They
will send you the CD, and then if satisfied, you mail in payment.
Image
Farm
Offering themed images CDs, including objects,
locations, textures, and backgrounds.
Image
Source
A collection of contemporary images with a focus on people and lifestyle.
Search by keyword or category.
Index Stock
An expanded collection now includes Advertising and Commercial color,
Editorial color and B&W, Vintage B&W, Retro color. All subjects
including particular strengths in Western scenery, Caribbean and Southern
USA lifestyle, New England, Agriculture and Retro Americana. Both
traditional licenses and royalty-free images.
John
Foxx Images
Known for its original,
stylish imagery and the professional way the company always incorporates
the latest digital techniques into their products, John Fox Images has
more than 15,000 professional royalty-free stock images.
MediaFocus
International
Images available for download or on CD. Search and buy online.
Mountain
Peeks
Posters, single images, and CD collections of mountain scenes and
lifestyles.
New
Leaf Graphics
Images of Florida, including insects, animals,
plants, eco-tourism, and landscapes. Also, featuring photographic
services, graphic and web site design.
PhotoAlto
- Digital images of food, beauty, people, business, and nature.
PhotoDisc
Offers an inspiring collection of 90,000
immediately downloadable images from award-winning photographers.
Photo
Gratis
Hundreds of free, high quality photographs.
Arranged into their respective categories: action photos, animals,
buildings, castles, cities, cultures, events, jobs, houses, religion, sun,
sea, water, etc.
PhotosOfPlants
Buy flower, plant, and garden images online,
botanical and horticultural photographs.
PhotoSphere
Specializing in images of people. Also, featuring business, travel,
nature, and objects. Search the database, buy CD collections, or download
single photos.
PhotoSpin
Digital images are available for download or on
CD. Also, featuring illustration, fonts, film, and audio clips for the
design industry.
Picture
Quest
Filled with digital content including stock
photography, pictures, illustrations, maps, graphics, royalty free
photography & other design images. The PictureQuest stock photography
agency has a photo research service to find digital photos & specific
graphics.
Pixelthrough
Selected urban and nature images available for download. Order prints or
get information on an image management system for photographers and press.
Plantstock
View images of culinary herbs and medicinal
plants, available on CD.
Pro
Stock Photo
Images of the American West, nature, abstracts, and patterns for
commercial or private use. CD-ROMs are available online.
Rubber
Ball
Digital stock photography of people and
lifestyles on CD-ROM.
Seattle
Support Group
Search, buy, and download digital images from a variety of categories.
Also, offering CD duplication, scanning, and backup services.
SpacePhotography
Images of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, space vehicles, and
astronauts. Users may use them commercially for a monthly fee, or simply
enjoy the sights.
Stockbyte
A wide variety of quality photos in many topic areas. Purchase images separately
or from their CD collection. Each CD offers up from 150 to 300 images.
Think
Stock
A vibrant community of
stock web sites. Each site in this community is dedicated to providing
exceptional imagery within specific content niches.
Time
Tunnel
Vintage illustration and
stock photography for the graphics professional. Specializing in fun,
royalty-free collections of pinup art, pulp and comic book cover art,
vintage labels and textiles.
Viewfinder
Australia
Photographs from the Fifth Continent and around the world, for
advertising, publishing, and web design purposes.
WebStock
Digital photographs and illustrations for
advertising, publishing, and graphic design. Featuring an online
searchable database.
Index Stock
An expanded collection now includes Advertising and Commercial color,
Editorial color and B&W, Vintage B&W, Retro color. All subjects
including particular strengths in Western scenery, Caribbean and Southern
USA lifestyle, New England, Agriculture and Retro Americana. Both
traditional licenses and royalty-free images.
John
Foxx Images
Known for its original,
stylish imagery and the professional way the company always incorporates
the latest digital techniques into their products, John Fox Images has
more than 15,000 professional royalty-free stock images.
MediaFocus
International
Images available for download or on CD. Search and buy online.
Mountain
Peeks
Posters, single images, and CD collections of mountain scenes and
lifestyles.
New
Leaf Graphics
Images of Florida, including insects, animals,
plants, eco-tourism, and landscapes. Also, featuring photographic
services, graphic and web site design.
PhotoAlto
- Digital images of food, beauty, people, business, and nature.
PhotoDisc
Offers an inspiring collection of 90,000
immediately downloadable images from award-winning photographers.
Photo
Gratis
Hundreds of free, high quality photographs.
Arranged into their respective categories: action photos, animals,
buildings, castles, cities, cultures, events, jobs, houses, religion, sun,
sea, water, etc.
PhotosOfPlants
Buy flower, plant, and garden images online,
botanical and horticultural photographs.
PhotoSphere
Specializing in images of people. Also, featuring business, travel,
nature, and objects. Search the database, buy CD collections, or download
single photos.
PhotoSpin
Digital images are available for download or on
CD. Also, featuring illustration, fonts, film, and audio clips for the
design industry.
Picture
Quest
Filled with digital content including stock
photography, pictures, illustrations, maps, graphics, royalty free
photography & other design images. The PictureQuest stock photography
agency has a photo research service to find digital photos & specific
graphics.
Pixelthrough
Selected urban and nature images available for download. Order prints or
get information on an image management system for photographers and press.
Plantstock
View images of culinary herbs and medicinal
plants, available on CD.
Pro
Stock Photo
Images of the American West, nature, abstracts, and patterns for
commercial or private use. CD-ROMs are available online.
Rubber
Ball
Digital stock photography of people and
lifestyles on CD-ROM.
Seattle
Support Group
Search, buy, and download digital images from a variety of categories.
Also, offering CD duplication, scanning, and backup services.
SpacePhotography
Images of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, space vehicles, and
astronauts. Users may use them commercially for a monthly fee, or simply
enjoy the sights.
Stockbyte
A wide variety of quality photos in many topic areas. Purchase images
separately or from their CD collection. Each CD offers up from 150 to 300
images.
StopStock.com
Search here with one click
and bring up results from up to eight sources.
Think
Stock
A vibrant community of
stock web sites. Each site in this community is dedicated to providing
exceptional imagery within specific content niches.
Time
Tunnel
Vintage illustration and
stock photography for the graphics professional. Specializing in fun,
royalty-free collections of pinup art, pulp and comic book cover art,
vintage labels and textiles.
Viewfinder
Australia
Photographs from the Fifth Continent and around the world, for
advertising, publishing, and web design purposes.
WebStock
Digital photographs and illustrations for
advertising, publishing, and graphic design. Featuring an online
searchable database.
Various resources that will help
you along the way.
Design
Programs
Review, compare and purchase the newest editions of popular design and
editor software.
Design
Like the Pros
Cnet designers share 28
helpful tips on image creation, layout, and presentation.
Color
Safe Chart
The colors you choose in your design do make a difference.
ColorSchemer
You'll use this one often. Displays coordinated colors that go together
well.
Screen
Width
What size screen should you design your Web page for? A design tip from
NetMechanic.
Stupid
Web Tricks
Cnet shows you some of the
top common gimmicks and tells you how to put them on your site.
Html
Writers Guild
Unique community that provides resources, support, representation, and
education for web authors at all skill levels.
Web
Pages That Suck
Learn good web design by looking at bad design.
Worst
of the Web
A new 'worst' site every
day. Let's you take a peek at some other sites that will give you an
idea of how not to design yours.
Places to find information on Fonts
and actual fonts to download.
AcidFonts.com
A nice collection of fonts to download for free.
Search by alpha, new fonts, mac fonts and dingbats.
Jeff's
Dingbats
Good variety of usual and unusual dingbats to download for free.
MyFonts.com
Search by category and by name. Useful 'What the Font' tool where you can
identify a font by uploading a scanned image of a font and they'll show
you the closest matches in their database.
Font
Garden.com
I really enjoy this site with a great selection. Each font example is
written with a different "quip".
FontFace.com
Many great fonts can be found at this neat little site. Browse by
date added or alphabetical.
EsperFonto
Find the most appropriate typeface with Daniel Will-Harris' online system.
 1001
Free Fonts
A collection of freeware and shareware fonts and dingbats, all available
to download for free.
Cool
Archive Fonts
Over 900 free fonts available for both Mac and PC platforms.
The
Font Foundry
A large collection of freeware and shareware fonts and some nice tools to
make type selection easier.
Fun
Fonts on Billy Bear
These are on a children's fun site, but are really cute and suitable for
us "grown-ups" too!
more font resources:
Adobe.com
Fontpool
GraphicHeaven
Graphxedge
Fontcraft
Font
Diner
Ann-S-Thesia
PizzaDude
Lettering
Delights
Online Resources:
Beginner's
Guide to HTML
Resources for beginners to more advanced users. From the Nat'l Center for
Supercomputing Applications.
Annabella's
HTML Help
For the beginner, online examples of some of the
most common html situations you'll want to learn about.
HTML
Writer's Guild
Excellent resource, classes offered plus a host of information online.
The
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Site of the organization which determines the
standards of HTML. Some of the information gets technical but it is an
invaluable resource in the long run.
HTML
for the Conceptually Challenged
HTML tutorial that uses "laymen's"
terms to describe HTML tags and concepts.
HTML
Hints and Tips
Very good guide to layout and structure of an
HTML document. Includes sections on URL's and other terms.
Kevin's
HTML FAQ
Answers the most frequently asked questions about HTML and creating
web sites.
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