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Animation Factory
This is a great site with over 30,000 original animations for use on Websites.

You will find a large catalog of eye catching animations that you can use as a headline graphic or as an article graphic on your control panel. Many of these are free for non-commercial sites. They also offer a subscription for commercial sites that will allow you to access their entire library. Follow the instructions on the site for saving their graphics. Then use the BROWSE button near the headline graphic or article graphic area of your WORK ON CONTENT page to upload them to your pages.

New! SiteRightNow has now licensed a number of our favorite Animation Factory graphics. You will find these as selections available on your SiteRightNow.com control panel! Note that these images are copyrighted by Animation Factory. Additional graphics are available from Animation Factory directly through the link above.

Brown Bag Graphics
This is a nice set of graphics we found while surfing, including backgrounds and animated gifs.

We thought that there were some nice backgrounds in their library. Here's a link right to the background page:
BACKGROUNDS

The background on this page is from their site. To use a background, simply save it as instructed on the site. On your control panel, you would click the BACKGROUNDS button. You will see a BROWSE button that you can click to search for the file you saved, and it will upload to your site.

School Icons Club
This website has some very attractive backgrounds and other graphics. Many are related to kids and school, but some can also be used to give your website a "country" look or for other purposes. All they ask for using their graphics is a link back.

How do you save these backgrounds to use on your control panel? If you click the smaller picture of the background you like, it will show up full screen. Then, on most computers you can click your right mouse button and choose "Save Background As" to save the file on your computer. You can then upload it on the control panel's background screen using the Browse button to locate the file you saved.

Here is a link directly to their backgrounds page: Backgrounds

The notebook style backgrounds have a nice effect, and many other styles are available. Here's a link directly to one of the notebook style background pages that works well with SiteRightNow: Notebook Style Backgrounds 

Cool Text Logos and More at Cooltext.com
Cooltext.com offers a great free tool for creating your own logo without needing a graphics program or a designer. Just make your choices, and the tool creates a fantastic looking logo. You can pick from a wide array of fonts and sizes.

Tip: Click the LOGO link when visiting their site. After making your choices, click the RENDER link to create your logo. Then click your right mouse button on the finished logo and choose Save Picture As to save the logo to your computer. If your computer puts .jpeg on the end, change this to .jpg for compatibility with our system.

Here's a logo we made for SiteRightNow in about 2 minutes:


Click Here to Visit Cooltext.com

Bonus! Look for the TEXTURE link on Cooltext.com. There are some great texture pictures that can be used as BACKGROUNDS on your website. Upload these pictures on your BACKGROUNDS screen for great results. Again, you can click your right mouse button on the picture you want to use, and then choose "save picture as" to save it on your computer to use on your control panel.

Free Image Editing Program XnView
Are your graphics too large when you upload them to your website? Do you need to convert from file formats, such as TIF to formats that will work on the Web, such as JPG and GIF?

You can do this sort of editing in most graphics programs, such as Adobe PhotoDeluxe and Adobe Photoshop. For those of you who don't have access to one of these programs or just want something simpler, we found this great little program that is free to download and use. It will do the job without taking much room on your computer or requiring you to learn a complicated graphics program.

(For Windows Computers. Just 1.5MB)
Click Here to Download

To Install after Downloading:
Some browsers will give you the choice to open the file immediately when you are finished downloading it (choose this option). If you do not get this option, find the file "XnView-win.exe" that you saved, and double click it to begin the installation.

After installation is completed, there will be a new program group listed under your START MENU for XnView. Select the XnView 1.25 icon to start the program.

To resize a picture:
1) Select OPEN under FILE or click the second button on the button bar.
2) Select RESIZE under the Image menu, and put in your new settings.
3) Select SAVE AS under file or click the SAVE AS icon (the third picture).
4) Choose JPG for photos and GIF for art next to File Type.
5) When saving in JPG format, you should also click the OPTIONS button and drag the quality bar to somewhere in the middle. This will reduce the file size down without losing much quality. This will help your pages load quicker.
6) Click OK and Click Save.
You also may want to drag a rectangle around the good part of your picture and then select CROP under the Edit menu to cut out the extra before resizing. To get the rectangle, just start dragging your mouse over the picture.



Note: If you are reuploading the picture to your website, make sure you save your resized picture with a different name than the original one you uploaded, such as mypicture2.jpg.

GIFWORKS Free On-line Tool
This is a fantastic free Website. As described by Gifworks, "It's an online GIF image editor. This unique tool is completely on-line -- nothing to download or install. Better yet, it's ABSOLUTELY FREE -- no prepaid tokens or subscriptions."

We tried out their on-line program. It works great for editing GIF images. Use this tool to make your images "transparent" for a more professional look.

free-graphics.com
This is a great site with a ton of free graphics, including 3D GIF animations, backgrounds, clip art, and much more! The animated cow shown above on our page can be found on this site.

clip-art.com
This site doesn't have graphics of its own. It's a "portal" to other great free graphics sites. They have links to free animations, clip-art, and more.

Microsoft Free Clipart Gallary
Microsoft has thousands of clipart pictures available for many categories. Type in a search word and come up with pages of free graphics.

The way we read Microsoft's acceptable use policy, is that you can use these pictures for free as long as you have a Microsoft program, such as Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, etc. This covers most people. As with most free graphics, you can use these graphics for your own projects and are not allowed to resell them to others.

Lycos Graphics Portal
This is another "portal" site offered by the search engine Lycos. It is an excellent compilation of links and downloads, including backgrounds, clip-art, graphics tools, and more.

Patriotic Backgrounds by Dawn
Nice patriotic backgrounds and other gifs.





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