The Internet Book - Web Page Resources

• Graphics and Icons •
	The internet has hundreds of graphic sites, some good, some not so good. Some are loaded with adverts, others with annoying pop-up banners, and some are simply misleading. You'll find the sites listed here are well worth visiting!

A+ Art: A collection of graphics from throughout the internet. Includes over 600 gif animations, icons, bullets, backgrounds, clipart and bars. Free for everyone to use.
Backgrounds By Marie: These stunning, original background sets are exquisitely done. They include a variety of topics such as floral, scenic, animals, angelic, cherubs, birthday, wedding, valentine day, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and much more. There's even a tutorial on how to use backgrounds.
Barry's Clip Art Server: You'll find a very large collection of free clip art at this "no frills" site. There are over 400 animated graphics as well as a number of collections grouped by artist. Images load fast.
Becky's Graphics for Kidz: If you're setting up a web page for your child, this site is a "must visit". There are graphic sets, Barbies, Teletubbies, Disney, Barney, Blue's Clues and more. Kid related clip art, buttons, etc. Very nicely done. Kids will love it! Free for personal use.
Bonsai Icon Collection, The: All kinds of pictures, photos, drawings, etc of Bonsai trees for use on your home page. If the current shadow color or window background color doesn't quite fit with your page's background color, checkout the new Dynamically Customizable Icons that allow you to specify the color for either or both the shadow or background colors used on the icon.
Button Bin, The: The Button Bin offers over 600 button graphics. They are all free to use. Buttons have been broken down button by color and style and have placed each color on it's own page. There is just about every kind of button imaginable including holiday buttons.
By Design: Elegant things for your web page. Beautiful "web jewels" in golds, crystal and gemstone as well as some "web dings". Some great font sets to create grahics with along with an excellent selection of animated dance graphics. Some are original, some from other collections.
Cats & Kittens Designs: Free Graphics for the cat lovers. Great collection of cat graphics on this easy-to navigate page. Over 700 graphics and still growing. You'll find a collection of cat lines, backgrounds, images, icons, buttons etc.
CatStuff Graphics: If you're a cat lover, this site's for you! Glenda Moore has just about everything and anything that's cat-related including animated cats, cat borders, backgrounds, graphics, complete webpage sets, lines and more! Free for a return link. A great site to visit even if you don't like cats.
Celest's Holiday Graphics: A collection of original holiday graphics for all seasons. You'll find graphics for just about any holiday for any month as well as birth announcement graphics. The Christmas animated "snow globe" is especially nice. All graphics are free for use on a personal, noncommercial Web page or your computer desktop.
Celine's Original Gifs: All graphics contained within these pages were created by Celine Chamberlin and are placed willfully and knowingly in the public domain. That means you have free reign to download, use and/or change these graphics for your own use in your web pages. There are backgrounds, lines, menu bars, bullets, arrows and more. View on-line or download all in one zip packet.
Clipart Castle: Over 3,000 graphics files for you to choose on a wide variety of Fantasy related topics. These include gargoyles, witches, magic, swords, blood, demons, as well as a collection of fantasy related backgrounds, etc. Free for all to use. Many are animated.
Clip Art Connection: A nice site with the graphics broken down into categories such as Animals Arrows, Holidays, People, etc. One interesting feature is a maillist that you can join and you'll be sent a new .gif each and every day. Great way to build your collection. Graphics are free although there are a number of adverts for commercial clipart.
Corporation's Icon Gallery, The: These icons are a bit off the wall but are, never the less, fun! It's a small collection of two pages worth of professional looking images, some that are sure to tickle the funny bone. They are free for use with a link back to The Corporation.
Dingbat Pages, The: An excellent collection of dingbat true type fonts for both the pc and the Mac. The fonts are nicely categorized and include samples of the graphics. Most are freeware, some very low cost shareware and some postcardware.
Disability Graphics: Excellent selection of graphics for those with disability related pages. You'll find graphics for Hearing disabilities, fingerspelling, visionary graphics, free wheeling and special kids graphis as well as links to other similar type sites.
DLA Web Designs: An excellent collection of graphics gathered from various places around the internet. They are broken down nicely into categories such as Easter, Halloween, Mother's Day, etc. The non-holiday grahpics are also in groups such as Babies, books, Animals, Angels, Cartoons, Fantasy, Sports, School, Teddy Bears, Weddings, and a whole lot more. Be prepared to spend a lot of time checking this one out.
Elated Web Toolbox: Great Pagekits that are entire website templates with all the code and images you need to get started with a great page and they are free! View the pagekit on-line and when you find one you like, download it. Just insert your own information and you have a professional looking web page almost instantly. They also have wonderful ButtonKits and TextureKits.
Four Bees Free Web Graphics: All graphics here are original and free. Please feel free to use them for your own needs. Grahpics are grouped into sections such as bars, backgrounds, buttons, bullets, banners and borders. Easy to navigage with frames.
Fuzzy Faces Free Dog Graphics: Everything for the dog lover! Graphics, animated dogs, paw prints, all kinds of dog breeds, etc. Free for non-commercial use. Many are generic dog designs, but artwork for many specific breeds is available, too. You'll also find several obedience and agility designs available. Most are original artwork.
Graphics Station: This site has a collection of hundreds of small icons, lines, bars, etc. including a selection of animated graphics. These are mostly free ones that have been around for a while but are often hard to find. Also has some original backgrounds and bars. Free for non-commercial use.
Heavenly Graphics by Nessa: All original graphics by Nessa. Mostly background sets that include inspirational sets, children's sets, animal sets, victorian sets, etc. Includes a page of inspirational plaques. Nicely done. Free with link back to site.
Icon Bazaar: Easy to navigate site filled with small icons that are grouped into categories such as Arrows & Pointers, Backgrounds, Alphabets, Road Signs, Flags, etc. Free for non-commercial use but limited to 20 in each colleciton.
Icon Factory: A interesting collection of original icons that are all very small in size, around 34x34. Free for use. Great for accenting areas of a page, etc. They are nicely grouped into sections showing both their current offerings and those of the past.
Iconographics Design: Iconographics Design (formerly The Rocket Shop) creates high quality graphic and information design, and distributes many Web images for free. You'll find hundreds of unique graphics, including some interesting space ships, completely free for download. Also has a small collection of animated graphics.
Jelane's Free Web Graphics: Free Customized Buttons! If you find a set of graphics you like, we'll create extra buttons for you! A nice collection of original graphic families. Families are coordinated sets of graphics. Each set contains an "edge" background, a bullet, bar, left and right arrows, Home, Back, E-mail, and Links buttons. Designs for both black and white backgrounds. Includes a section of 256 color graphics.
Jumbles Animal Gallery: A collection of page sets devoted to the animal world. Over 150 complete sets of beautifully done animals with a special section for cats and dogs. All have been designed for fast loading and are free for Personal Web Sites Only. Sets include background, buttons, bars, etc.
MCC Art Archive: Spruce up your Web site with royalty-free images from the MCC Art Archive. Choose from more than 250 FREE images that include animated buttons, buildings, people and signs. All of our graphics are original art.
McCanna's Free Art: A collection of original high quality graphics by Laurie McCanna. Free for use with a link back to their page. Includes an elegant alphabet, snow flakes, business icons, stylish swashes, pencils, tasty goodies, floral icons and page dividers, musical notes, 3D arrows and more. A sample is viewable on- line but to see them all, you need to download the files.
MichelNet: Looking for something a bit different? Creating your first web page and need a head start? Michele has some wonderful "sets" ready to copy to your own hard drive. Just plug in your own text in the indicated areas and you can have a very professional looking web page in a matter of minutes. You'll find themes such as monkeys, kids, animals, bats, spiders, skulls, seasonal stuff, excellent country themes and more all original, high quality and free for use.
Mike's Animated Gif's: This page is your gateway to over 1,250 Animated Gif files and many other items (gifs, jpgs, letters, buttons, backgrounds, etc.) you may find useful in designing your own home page. These are grahics collected from the internet and free for use on personal pages.
MM Graphics: If you want something a little different, this site offers some interesting buttons bars and dots. Check out their Free Graphics section for 100s of custom made, unique images to enhance your web site.
Netscapes Background Sampler: Netscape offers a variety of free backgrounds in various colors, textures and designs. They range from the soft fabric look to the heavy rocky styles and from the pastel colors to the bright and eyecatching ones. They are free for the taking.
Pat's Web Graphics: Beautiful sets to create a professional looking web page. Holiday sets for most holidays including New Years, Groundhog Day, Easter, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Graduation and more. You'll also find a great selection of flowers, textures, personalized graphics, animated graphics and much more. Very nicely done. All original and high quality.
Police Graphics Library: You are welcome to use any of these graphics on your police-related homepage. Some are originals, others I've found on the internet or scanned out of magazines. Page contains about 50 graphics that you can either view on-line or download a single package for later use.
Pambytes Free Web Graphics: An excellent collection of original graphics that may be used on either personal or commercial sites at no charge. This collection includes buttons (oval ones too), banners, clipart, menus, menu sets, some great Christmas graphic sets, and even a tutorial on how to add text to your buttons in Paint Shop Pro. Very well designed and easy to navigate.
Rose's Animated Gifs: Over 350 animated graphics and still growing! This is a collection of animated graphics from arount the internet. They are free for all to use. There's also a nice selection of Christmas graphics.
Sewell Web Graphics: Excellent collection of graphics with a lot of everything including clipart for crafters, Fantasy, Victorian Santas, over 1000 original backgrounds, flowers, butterflies, animated graphics, Button Sets, bordered sets and way too much to list here. Freeware.
Solon's Animated Graphics: An excellent collection of free animated graphics. You'll find things nicely placed into categories for easy browsing. Catergories include, but are not limited to Animals, Flowers, Horror, Cars, Planes, Romantics, People and more! Be prepared to spend many hours browsing this huge site. The section on animals is a goldmine for those creating a web page for children.
Thumbnail Families: These thumbnail families by Jelane Johnson are nicely done. Each "set" comes with a border, buttons, divider line, home buttons dots, etc. They are a full matched set with either black or white backgrounds. They will even put the words on the buttons for you if you wish. A wonderful way to start a great looking webpage that hangs together and they're all free.
Treasure Chest of Backgrounds: Hundreds of free backgrounds for your web pages. Everything from the quiet weaves to the bright spirals that are very eyecatching. They come in small and large sizes and a variety of topics including some for the holidays.
Webpage Graphics on a Budget: This site features graphics package sets that include backgrounds, matching buttons, decorations and a horizontal rules. These graphics are free for anyone to use. There are some other goodies here including Paint Shop Pro tutorials along with some general web graphic tips.
Webpromtion Graphics: Webpromotion's goal is to help you convey a professional image through the design of top notch websites, logos, ad banners, catchy graphics and captivating animation. All animations were created by Webpromotion. They're free when you link to Webpromotion from your site.
Wedding Clip Art: Here you will find wedding-related clip art collected from various web sites and binary newsgroups. All of the clip art images available here are in the public domain and can be freely used by anyone. The collection includes Angels, Cupids, Cherubs, etc. (56 files) Balloons, Party Items, Bells, Bible, Brides, Grooms, Candles, Churches, Crosses, Doves, Flowers, Hearts, Wedding Bands, Engagement Rings,, Wedding Cakes and more!
Windy's Fashionable Page Designs: If you want something a little different,you're sure to find it here. There are many original, unique backgrounds and a number of sets that include borders and buttons. There's just about every style you can imagine. Site is well organized and easy to navigage. Free for non-commercial use.