Preview of Some Free Stuff Topics
October 20, 1999
We have several topics lined up for this series.
They'll help you to create attractive and interesting pages -
without spending a fortune!
Good graphics and page design can grab the viewer's attention,
and may well make the difference between being bookmarked,
and being forgotten.
We'll show you where to get clip-art, and quality artwork and
photos ranging from old masters to NASA spectaculars.
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali.
Scan by Mark Harden.
Whether your site is about entertainment or not -
your visitors might welcome a few moments of light relief!
Perhaps some fun
games - or even a
puzzle to mull over.
"Rubik Unbound"
from Java On The Brain.
Hit s to scramble the cube, then hold and drag the mouse cursor on
any cubelet to rotate in any plane it's in. Try to get the faces
all the same color, or hit r to restore it.
Not only are there Java applets for games and puzzles,
but also for many other applications, such as site navigation,
education, network utilities, and various effects with text and sound.
Adding Java applets to a web page is really very simple!
Moiré pattern.
You can start and restart the applet by shift-clicking on the pattern.
You can also click-and-drag to control the motion of the pattern yourself.
Music
The web needn't be a purely visual, silent medium -
you can offer your visitors a choice of
music to surf by.
There are plenty of free search engines you can install on your site;
it helps if you're a programmer. If not, or it's not easy or possible
to install software on your hosting service, then there are some search
engines hosted on other sites that will index your site for free.
Use
to search EncycloZine.
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