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Top 10 Hot Picks: Original Graphics!

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This issue of Cool/Great Sites - Top Ten Hot Picks - features original graphics. Searching for really great original graphics to use on your web site is just as much fun as surfing for free stuff, if not more! Not only do you find a lot of really great graphics, but you get to visit a multitude of very unique, individual well-designed web sites.

I hope you enjoy these sites. I very much enjoyed browsing for them and wandering through each respective web site. For those beginners out there, let me tell you that most of the web sites are very good about giving instructions as to how to save graphics, but for most browsers, you simply right click on the graphic, and save the graphic to your hard drive. This is also the same for animations and backgrounds, although some backgrounds (thumbnails) can be viewed full size on a separate page by clicking on them. Some backgrounds are even set up so that you can view each background just as it would appear on your web page, with text samples, so you can see exactly how the background will look and how different color text will look against each background. Additionally, some of the sites offer zip files, which makes it even easier to download your favorite graphics, background sets and fonts.

Top 10 Hot Picks - Original Graphics:

My first hot pick is Andy's Art Attack. This web site is your "One Stop Resource for Web Designers." Find hundreds of free original animations, buttons, bullet points and backgrounds, plus pages on Adobe Photoshop, HTML, JAVA and graphics tips. This is a totally awesome site which is updated every few weeks. You will notice they hold a prominent position in the top 10 of Web Side Story's Top 1,000 Web Sites, in the Web Tools category. They're about to hit that 2,000,000 visitor mark! Make sure you stop in here - set aside at least a couple of days!

My next hot pick is the Animation Factory. This web site currently features 16,000 "all-original" free animated gifs. The gifs are listed by category, including aminated alphabets, spotlight sites, what's new, a newsletter, and the animation of the day. All gifs are created by Eclipse Digital Imaging. This web site has had over a half a million visitors to

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