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BigAssWeb is big, loud, and free. Free web hosting, email, and tons of other services. Many links to free services all over the web, and presented with an irreverent, humorous attitude that's a lot of fun.
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Web Development Media and Magazines |
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A great place to learn about the Web and webmastery. This site offers a searchable directory of the best sites plus high quality regular content, free Web services, and real-time Web news. WebReference makes keeping up with what's happening on the Internet easy. A must bookmark for Web developers. Regular columns and tutorials on Authoring, E-commerce, Internet, Multimedia, Programming, Promotion, Site Design, and much, much more. Truly one of the most essential resources on the Web.
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A popular UK-based Net mag, with an emphasis on the strange. My favorite is Wierd Net Tech, covering such essential research topics as The Dancing Baby and Bob of the Church of the Subgenius.
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Web Graphics Resources |
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This is a huge collection of only icons that has been around for several years, so it's one of the best. Relatively well classified, quality images. Free for personal use up to 10 images.
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Coolgraphics.com is a well-organized site containing over 1000 GIFs with a lot of animated design elements - arrows, buttons, and so on. The site's owner requests a reciprocal link if you use any of their graphics.
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| rad graphics |
A free graphics site - backgrounds, buttons, animations, etc. leaning heavily toward the 3D generated variety.
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This is a great site for icons, balls, backgrounds, free art of all kinds, and many web resource links. An important resource.
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| animation factory |
Over 11,000 original animated GIFs to use on your site. An extremely impressive collection, including a lot of 3D.
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| absolute designz |
A free collection of a few hundred original buttons, backgrounds and the like. A particularly nice collection of 3D arrows in beautiful colors.
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| a+b+c web graphics |
All free graphics, with an emphasis on backgrounds - almost 1000 pages of them, if you can get your brain around that.
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This site focuses on not only free stuff but sites that use a lot of media and other advanced features. Indexed by category, date, topic, lots of good graphics links.
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Andy's Art Attack is simply one of the best resources on the internet, period. Scads of free images, tips, message boards, a Button Vault for still and animated buttons, and the AndyArt CD-ROM, a cornucopeia of resources for designing a web site. A must-see.
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Banners for all |
Free banner templates, button makers, they'll even design a free banner for you.
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If you're looking for a designer or a place to add your resume or yellow pages listing for design services, this is the Ultimate Web Design List.
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A beautifully designed site that demonstrates how you can have plenty of graphics but still look clean and load quickly (their graphics, in addition to being well-designed, are optimized by GIFCruncher). Custom logos, web graphics, web design, software development, and web hosting are some of the services available from ArtJive. Worth a look.
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free4all |
This site specializes in links to free services of many types, all useful to webmasters. This is an important resource that will allow you to increase your site's functionality fast and for free. You don't really need to be the 3000th person on the planet to write a guestbook cgi, do you?
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pixelwarehouse.com |
A large archive of free graphics, including many icons. Terms of use are freeware. Great resource.
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graphics resources |
A small but good links page - lots of free banner creation tools.
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freebyte.com |
A nice collection of quality links. Links of all kinds, but very strong in the graphics and multimedia department. Free graphics.
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pixelfoundry.com |
Formerly KPT Online, now has a wider array of Photoshop-oriented tutorials and techniques, along with backgrounds and KPT stuff.
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Laurie McCanna's Free Art Site |
A really nicely done site that could serve as a study in efficient, attractive design. Not just free art -- tips, tutorials, links. Laurie is author of Creating Great Web Graphics. And she does.
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webdiner.com |
Another Laurie and Tim McCanna effort - many resources for beginning web page developers including attractive page templates that you can use to start your site quickly. A must-see.
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Site Promotion |
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internet wire |
A welcome alternative to traditional, boring wire services. The low-cost Daily Debut is a good way to get your site in front of lots of people.
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Graphics Plug-ins |
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photoshop plugged in |
Photoshop Plugged IN is devoted to PC plug-ins for Photoshop and other paint programs. This is a truly excellent resource, with screen shots, reviews and ratings for each plug-in. Any graphics designer should make this site one of their regular visits.
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General Web Development Resources |
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This site owes its origins to the founder's frustration with "free" sites that offered things that weren't really free. So, everything here is free. Lots of webmaster links, general freeware.
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This site maintains a Top 25 and Top 5 list of reviewed web hosting services, and provides objective criteria by which hosting services can be assessed. Check it out if you're looking for a host for your site.
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tudogs.com |
A general collection of free software across all categories. All entries are reviewed. Quality site.
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reallybig.com |
One of the most comprehensive HTML link catalogs on the planet. All areas of web development are covered. Excellent web graphics section as well.
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Tips-Tricks.com |
Many tutorials on pertinent web design subjects -- like when to use GIF vs. JPEG. Also many quality links to web authoring and design tools. Worth a visit.
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The Web Developer's Virtual Library |
An outstanding collection of resources concerning all aspects of web development -- GIF, JPEG, Java, CGI, HTML, etc.
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desktopPublishing.com |
ArtLinx Awards Backgrounds BookStore Calendar Clipart & Imaging Cool Stuff Design dtpLinks dtpServices dtpSoftware Fonts Free Stuff Graphics Sites Graphic Utilities... you get the idea.
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coolnerds.com |
A large site with many resources for HTML, JavaScript, free art, graphics links by Alan Simpson, author of The Windows98 Bible.
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The name says it all. A Saganesque collection of resources - free art, sounds, programs, free everything. The mother of all free sites.
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