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Credit NASA and you can use their pictures on your website. Lots of pictures of planets and space probes. Resolutions not too brilliant - the classic "Blue marble" shot of the earth is only about 550 x 550 pixels.
Over 28,000 free photos at Britton2000.com! Free for personal and non-commercial use. Again credit must be given to the photographer and his site. Resolutions are modest at around 600 x 400.
Free landscape photos are available for personal use from this site. Some stunning shots from places including Venice (Italy!) & Monument Valley USA.
Free for both personal and commercial use, Freeimages.co.uk have a professional looking site with more than 2500 original stock photos available to download in 14 different categories. You can use them in almost any way you want, short of re-distributing them. All they ask in return is that you put a link to them - text, button or banner - if you're using a shot on a website. Otherwise you just credit them on whatever you are creating. Picture resolutions are quite high at around 1600 x 1200 or 1200 x 900 pixels.
There are over 2,000 royalty-free photo's available from Zettweb. The resolutions are good enough for them to be used full-screen or as wallpaper.
iSyndicate have launced a new service providing free content and photos. You simply link to content from your site. The material is supplied by iSyndicate and their various associates.
ClipArtDownload.com is offering 10,000 clipart images and 100,000 web images for free. Simply click on New User and enter your name and e-mail address, there is nothing more to it. You will then be emailed a password that will give you access to 10,000 of the best looking WMF images around.
Mostly animated GIF's. There is also a N. American mirror site.
If you sign up for Link Exchange or one of the many other banner exchange programmes you'll suddenly find you need a decent-looking banner. The Banner Generator lets you design your own online. Your finished banner can then be downloaded from their server for future use.
The HelpZone is a place where you can make banners free and also get help about running you own website.
The Animation Factory is full of free animated gif files (non-commercial use only). They include all types of webmaster graphics (buttons etc) as well as almost every category of image you can think of!
Make your own free buttons & logos
Cool Archive not only lets you design your own buttons and logos online but has an extensive offering of backgrounds, fonts and graphics.
Free Windows wallpaper (3D rendered)
Bored with your wallpaper? There are over 100 3D rendered images available for download from Digital Blasphemy.
Wallpaper Madness is another site giving away free Windows wallpaper.
Backgrounds, buttons, balls, bar lines and bullets, not to mention a few graphic types not starting with a B!
Andy's Art Attack not only provides free buttons, backgrounds and gif animations, this useful site also gives tips on creating your own using Photoshop & Illustrator.
Matrix Vault's Pixel Warehouse has a good range of free graphics, including web-specific graphics (icons, bars, buttons, bullets, separators & animated gifs) and more general gif art.
Alphabet Connection sums itself up nicely. This site specialises in letters as graphics rather than parts of font files. Once you've loaded more than one or two applications onto your system you can be sure that nobody has the same font selection as you! The only way you can be certain of your visitors seeing letters the same way as you do is for them to be graphic images. Note though that graphics are much bigger files than plain HTML text so slower to download - and some people can't see them at all. - Use alt text tags!
Free themed page counter, statistics & message service from Pagecount. They incorporate a banner ad into the counter which has buttons for getting a free counter & leaving a message.
Graphic/DTP/CAD software download page, part of SoftSeek's helpful site. Many demo & shareware programs, some freeware.
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