Clip Art and Arrows, Buttons, Animated GIFs, etc...

Many 'free graphics' sites offer what is called 'clip-art' - icons, buttons, rules, gizmos, and simple pictures (usually GIF). They may help to 'spruce up' a site somewhat, though novices tend to go overboard and put too many of these images on their pages, often with little or no coordination such as style or color.

I've classified these resources according to what they seemed to me to be most concerned with, but please note that many of them are broader in scope and may well be worth checking out for other types of graphics.

Animated GIFs

Another common mistake is to put lots of irritating animations on the page. Note that they also take longer to load. Animations may look cool and cute the first time you see them, but you'll do your visitors a favor if you restrain the urge to use lots...

The Animation Factory has 12,000 Original Animations for use on web pages and in e-mail. All graphics have been 3D rendered and are completely original. When you've selected an image, you can modify it in GIFworks - which appears to be a Java applet that works like a simple paint program.

The Animation Library has over 3500 excellent free animations for you to use on your website, plus articles, reviews, tutorials, and everything else related to animated graphics.

A large graphic resource, WebDeveloper.com's Animation Archive provides a large archive of Animated GIFs for websites to use.

Clip Art, Icons, etc.

The A-1 Icon Archive is a site with access to over 300,000 free clipart images such as animated gifs, icons, backgrounds, bullets, clip art, and pictures; all free for you to download.

ArtToday.com Their free membership option offers 40,000 Web-Graphics including approximately 20,000 animated GIFs, 1500 bullets, 2750 backgrounds, 2750 buttons, 3500 themed images, 1500 rules and dividers and 8000 icons.

The Absolute Web Graphics Archive claims to be one of the largest collections of free web graphics on the internet with over 10000 arrows, lines, bullets, buttons, balls, clipart and icons for use in web pages or desktop publishing.

Barry's Clip Art Server is an Award Winning, free resource for all types of clip art. New images added daily.

CoolArchive is a huge free vault of 1000+ clipart images, 950+ fonts, 4000+ icons, hundreds of animations, buttons, bullets, arrows, bars, html and Photoshop tips, sounds. Plus an online Logo Generator and Button Maker to create your own graphics.

Designed to a T has free clipart, backgrounds, dividers, bullets and animated gifs. Unlike most of the other sites, there aren't zillions of images - but what they have is very distinctive.

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, completely free for download.

MediaBuilder's images are Public Domain, so feel free to take as many as you need and use them in any way you wish.

Moyra's Web Jewels is a treasure trove of thousands of truly unique and professionally created linkware graphics gems for personal sites, well organized by theme and updated with exquisite new images weekly.

Noetic Art has a small but high-quality collection of original images. The FAQ is worth the visit alone...

Webweaver XXI Century HTML offers free backgrounds, buttons, coordinated page sets, horizontal dividing lines, and wallpaper.

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