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following 5 resources are free to sign up and at times they even offer
free images and graphics to their members. They are a great addition to
your site building tools. Sign up and give them all a try. You can even
make money... (Santa was one of my free images)Fotolia
Fotolia
is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock
images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share
stock images and illustrations.
Fotolia offers the largest image
bank of free and affordable royalty free photos and illustrations
perfect for any medium, web or print.
As of October 2008,
Fotolia provides means for worldwide distribution of photographs, clip
art and vector art to more than 800,000 members who had uploaded more
than 4.2 million photographs and graphic illustrations. Fotolia is
designed for both commercial users who need photographs, company web
sites, and for use on profitable products, such as postcards, posters,
mugs; and also for private users, who want to use high-quality photos
for personal greeting cards, PC wallpapers, and other uses.
iCLIPART.com
iCLIPART.com
offers the highest quality collection of clip art available on the
Internet. Plus they have the largest QUANTITY of any clipart site with
over 7.8 million images. The vast majority of their content is provided
in vector file formats (.EPS & .AI) making it the perfect choice
for home, hobby, school and professional users.
iStockphotoA
collection of original member-generated image and design community.
They offer more than 3.2 million royalty-free stock images for as
little as $1 each. An inexhaustible collection images, flash, vector
illustrations and so much more.
Crestock.com
Stock
Photo & Image Bank Crestock has the stock photography industry's
highest standard in royalty free stock photos & images. With
Crestock you will never again have to waste your time searching through
thousands of sub-standard images to find what you need. Sign up and
they will send you an email instantly to activate your 50% Sign-Up
Bonus.
FREE TRIAL
Aleosoft Flash Banner MakerAmazing
product which I used to create the flash banner on my intro page as
well as some of the flash features you see on this site. Ultimate Flash
animation design tool to help you create Flash intros, Flash banners,
Flash slideshow, Flash AD and ecards, which can be used in any website
and blog.
FREE TUTORIAL Here
you will find a collection of websites that were created using
SynthaSite's web-based site editor. The purpose of Forsite (also
created with SynthaSite) is to showcase other users websites (some
still under construction).
I
used to make my ruby red buttons. After you have generated your buttons
then save them both to your computer and then see the Forsite tutorial
below.
Choose from the list of smashups to create logos, backgrounds, buttons and menus.
FREE
Animated GIF Generator
Take
up to 50 images located on your computer and create what's called an
animated GIF (where the images flash, move or rotate from one to the
next). The delay after each image sets how long that image will be
shown before it rotates to the next. FREE
Flash text generatorFREE
Screedbot
Make your own animated typewriter effect across the screen
How to do a mouse over effect like my button color change after you have used these two generators FREE
WPClipart
A
collection of high-quality public domain images. There are thousands of
color graphic clips as well as illustrations, photographs and black and
white line art. As of Tuesday, 10/14/2008 there are 23,176 images. This
is a clean and safe site for children and others to find good-quality,
printable images that have no copyright restrictions. All the images
are in the Public Domain and may be used for commercial as well as
personal projects without attribution or linking.
FREE
Animation Playhouse
View
categories of animated graphics that includes angels, animals, babies,
eyes, people, houses, buildings, household items, farm and country,
business, vehicles, computers, holidays, and more. FREE
Falling Snow Effect
Tutorial
to describe how to do a falling snow effect on your website. Click the
link below to open the pop up which has the complete step by step walk
through.
FREE Meracl ImageMap Generator
Click on Santa's nose, hat, hand and belly...
Meracl
ImageMap Generator is a program which with ease lets you make clickable
images - so called image maps. Easy imagemap generator for images with
the ability to click on any part of a an image and have either a new
window open and a redirect to the URL of your choice or to have it open
in the same window.
1) Download the file here and install to your computer mimg.zip
2) After the install click on "Start" then "All Programs" then "Mercacl ImageMap Generator" then "Mercacl ImageMap Generator"
The program will open
3) Click "File"
4) Click "New image map"
5) Click " Load image from hard drive"
6)
Locate the image you wish to turn into an image map and then click
"Open" Your image will appear in the imagemap generator editor
On the right side of the screen you will see a circle, triangle and a square (these denote the shape of the target area)
7)
Click on and drag a shape onto the spot you wish to have a imagemap (To
enlarge/reduce the size of the imagemap just click once in the shape
and you will see four dots (for the square). Just left click on one or all and drag in
and out to re-size) The triangle tool will allow you to make complex shapes. Just drag the triangle tool to your image and by left clicking and dropping the first two dots around and then right clicking where you need others you conect them all and that forms a invisible button once you place the URL in the box. The circle tool is quite simple to re-size.
8) With all four dots visible look in the upper right corner and paste the URL of the site or page you wish to link to.
9) In the "Frame target" box select either
_blank = Open in new tab = Santa's nose
_parent = Open in same tab = Santa's hand
_self = Open in same tab = Santa's hat
_top = Open in same tab = Santa's
After you have inserted all your imagemap points and URLs
10) Click "File"
11) Click "Save image map"
12) Click "Copy HTML to clipboard"
13) Open wordpad or notepad
14) Right click in the empty text document and click "Paste"
15) Locate in the first line of code the name of the image you used as your imagemap. In my case it was "Fotolia_4736831_XS.jpg"
16) Include the following before your file name "resources/"
From this
IMG SRC = "Fotolia_4736831_XS.jpg" USEMAP = "#1" BORDER = "0">
To this
IMG SRC = "resources/Fotolia_4736831_XS.jpg" USEMAP = "#1" BORDER = "0">
17) Upload the image you used to make your imagemap to your file manager
18) Highlight all your edited code
19) In your site editor drag an HTML widget onto your page and paste the code inside then click "OK"
20 Update your site and your new imagemap should be there to click on like mine...
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