GRAPHICS, IMAGES AND COLORS

Clip Art, Buttons, Bars, Images & Icons

• Barry's Clip Art Server
• Clipart.com It's great
• The Clip Art Connection - Web Page Clips & Resources
• Ender Design: Realm Graphics
• Image Paradise: Clip Art, Clip Art, and more Clip Art!
• GoGraph Presents a search engine and directory for finding and downloading photographs, clip art, animated icons and 3D images.
• Web Designer's Paradise

Image Handling

Tips:

• WebSite Garage - handy source for reducing the size of your image files to enhance load speed of your pages.
• ArachNet DesignsGet Web graphics tips and tricks including Photoshop lessons on adding glow effects, beveled buttons, stone textures, and custom lens flare.
• Yale C/AIM Style Manual Guide The section on using and making images is very helpful.

Tools:

• Transparent Images and Resources

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Colors (for backgrounds and links)

Most of these links go to color charts

• Colors of the Web Chart showing hex codes and color names for 140 colors.
• Helpful Web Links: Image and Color Problems
• Non-dithering Colors - Huh? Chart of 256 colors chosen by Netscape and MS Explorer as standard. They will display alike on all browsers.
• The Other RGB Color Chart (another useful chart)

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Image Maps

(Strong hint from the author of this page:
Web editors such as FrontPageŠ and PageMillŠ make image mapping a snap. Even if you don't ordinarily use an editor, you might want to for image maps.)

• How to Create Image Maps (from UNC Charlotte Web Support )
• Mapedit Source for software.

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Search Engines:
Manuals and Guides, colors, clip art

• Here is a chart to the best of the engines.
• AltaVista
• DogPile (multi-threaded engine, comprehensive, use keywords)
• Excite: HTML, Color
• Lycos: HTML
• Metacrawler (multi-threaded, use keywords)
• Yahoo: HTML, Color , Clip Art
• WebCrawler