WEB DESIGN RESOURCES-3

by Peter Y. Chou, Instructor for “HTML Web Publishing”
CTIS Division, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California

Clip Art Resources:
The Clip Art Connection— http://www.clipartconnection.com/
(One of the largest single clip-art resources on the web since 1995)
MediaBuilder Free Image Library— http://www.mediabuilder.com/graphicsfree.html
(Animated Gifs, Backgrounds & Textures, Borders, Icons, Lines, Free Font Library)
Art Today Online Image & Font Archive— http://www.arttoday.com/
(Annual $29.95 fee to access 750,000 clip-art images, 20,000 photos & 3240 fonts;
Free sampling of 40,000 graphics)
A+Art— http://www.aplusart.com/
(300+ clipart, icons, 89 backgrounds, buttons, bars [26 pp], 600+ animated gifs)
Andy's Art Attack!— http://www.andyart.com/index.html
(Animated gifs, backgrounds, buttons, spinning balls, Photoshop tips, Illustrator tutorials)
Background Paradise— http://desktopPublishing.com/backgrounds.html
(Background tips to select textures from thousands of images in their archives)
netCREATORS Icon Page— http://animatedgifs.simplenet.com/
(390 free animated gifs and 878 images arranged in categories)
The Ball Boutique— http://www.octagamm.com/boutique/
(Great place for orbs & spheres by Octagamm Web Design)
Barry's Clip Art Server— http://www.barrysclipart.com/
(400+ animated gifs,Index to free clipart, 99 teddy bears)
Castle of Anthony Thyssen (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)— http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
(Tour the castle and pick up some icons, animated gifs, and gold dragon coins)
Image Paradise— http://desktopPublishing.com/cliplist.html
(Clip art arranged in 40 categories from aircraft to web graphics)
Jay Boersma's Web Graphics (free for non-commercial sites)— http://www.ecn.bgu.edu/users/gas52r0/Jay/gifs.html
(Animated icons, Background webpaper, Horizontal rules, Patterns)
Pardon My Icons— http://www.zeldman.com/icon1.html
(460+ face icons by Jeffrey Zeldman that you could use to make a collage)
Public Domain Images— http://www.PDImages.com/
(Interesting & Unusual images for multimedia content)
Background Textures:
Controlling Document Backgrounds— http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg
(Netscape's Tutorial on HTML foreground & background attributes)
Netscape's Background Sampler— http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/backgrounds.html
(63 textured tiles for downloading or linking)
Axem Textures— http://axem2.simplenet.com/heading.htm
(840+ textures: cobblestones, marble, patterns, tiles, tree barks, wallpaper, woods)
Backgrounds Archive from the Pixel Foundry— http://www.pixelfoundry.com//bgs.html
(Slate tiles, Pinstripe backgrounds, Gentle tiles, Wrinkles, Stucco & Mystery Backgrounds)
Dr. Zeus' Textures— http://www.best.com/%7Edrzeus/Art/Textures/Textures.html
(Background tiles & textures using Avernus' Texture Scroller & Photoshop's smudge tool)
Infinite Fish Seamless Textures— http://infinitefish.com/texture.html
(195 textured backgrounds in 13 pages using Kai's Power Tools)
Julianne's Background Textures— http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Ejtolson/textures/textures.htm
(500 color swatches to use for your web page background)
Imagemaps:
WebMap— http://home.city.net/cnx/software/webmap.html
(Rowland Smith's $25 shareware Mac program for creating imagemaps)
Map This— http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/tc/mt
(freeware Windows program for creating imagemaps)
Mapedit— http://www.boutell.com/mapedit
(Thomas Boutell's $25 Windows shareware program)
Convert Server-side to Client-side Imagemaps— http://www.popco.com/popco/convertmaps.html
(Convert CERN/NCSA Map Files into Netscape Clientside Maps)
How the Imagemap Mechanism Works— http://www.seqnet.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/mapmarker/current/doc_html/imgmapmech.html
(a pictorial 8-step explanation on how server-side imagemaps work)
Gif Animation:
Yves Piguet's GifBuilder 0.5— http://iawww.epfl.ch/staff/yves.piguet/clip2gif-home/GifBuilder.html
(downloadable Mac freeware program, 277K)
Alchemy Mindworks' Gif Construction Set— http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html
(downloadable Windows shareware program for $20)
How to Get Animate— http://www.cnet.com/Content/Builder/Graphics/Webanim
(CNet's 7-step tutorial & tips on Animated Gifs)
John Warnock Gets Animated with GIF— http://www.adobe.com/studio/tipstechniques/GIFanimation/main.html
(A 9-step tutorial by Adobe's CEO using Illustrator, Photoshop, & GifBuilder)
Gif Animation Station— http://web2.airmail.net/nicktg/moving/index.html
(280 animated gifs indexed in 17 categories)