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- "Home Pages and the World Wide Web" presented to the Society for Technical Communication (STC) Washington, DC Chapter on 12 December 1995.
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- 1991-92 World Wide Web Seminar by Tim Berners-Lee
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- Sun Sound effects wav
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- Text-to-speech IP & voice services AT&T's demo of vocalizing typed words
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- CGI and Perl (also see the JavaScript resources)
- Graphics and Icons
For graphics and video software and tools, see Web Software and Tools- Adobe Community Experts is a community based program made up of Adobe customers who share their product expertise with the world-wide Adobe community.
- Animation Factory
- Animations from Kitty Roach
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- Anthony's WWW icons, bars, buttons, and miscellaneous graphics
- ArtBitz stock design and illustrations
- Bonzai—online icon collection
- Clipart.com
- Corner images available for free in all Web-safe colors
- Cynthia's collection of favorite backgrounds
- Cynthia's collection of favorite bars, lines, and rules
- Clip art links
- Clip art service
- Colors and utilities for color
- Accessibility Color Wheel Version 1.0 by Giacomo Mazzocato. When you hover over the color wheel, you'll see text in colors for normal, Deuteranopia, Protanopia and Tritanopia color vision simultaneously. An "OK" message is displayed when you hover over an accessible color. By clicking on the color, you can copy the hex values. The tool may be used for foreground and background color contrasts. You may download the javascript if you want to use it offline.
- Accessible Color and Typography
- The Browser-Safe Web Palette 216 colors for all platforms
- 6X6X6 Color Palette Clickable Map used by Netscape and other browsers
- Color Contrast Checker from WebAIM provides the ability to lighten and darken your color combinations slightly to find acceptable contrast levels.
- Color resource links
- ColorPicker a color picker that converts the standard RGB in the color picker dialog box to the HTML hex code hex; for Macintosh
- ColorPicker dynamic page
- ColorPicker Java applet
- ColorPicker Java applet background and text colors
- Color science from an astronomical perspective
- Color spectrum: course grain
- Considering user differences for Web design
- Feng Shui color theory and Western color spectrum differences
- GIMP's photo touchup tutorials
- HTML Color Chart — Crayola Crayon Colors
- Pangloss ColorHelper a color picker that provides the RGB for the selected color swatch, shows you what it looks like, and converts it to the HTML hex code; for Macintosh and Windows
- RGB/HEX Calculator
- Cynthia's collection of construction site graphics
- Daniel's icon archive icon collection at the Copenhagen University Observatory
- Disability Graphics
- Free Favicons
- Flower motifs and a great collection of graphics collections
- Globe Gallery
- Graphic Communication Resources
- Graphic Design Resource Center
- Graphics File Formats FAQ Image Conversion and Display Programs
- Icon browser
- University of Karlsruhe icon collections:
- Illustration Works (Stock Illustration)
- Laboratory Safety Signs and Posters
- Lynda Weinman, web graphics specialist and author <designing web graphics>
- Music Graphics Galore
- Site Graphics and Multimedia Design forum
- Stock Photography:
- Can Stock Photo Stock Photography and Clip Art offers professional royalty free stock photography at affordable prices. The site includes more than 16,000 clip art images. The site offers free weekly downloads with thousands of new images added every week to its database of more than 1 million images!
- Fotosearch Fotosearch is a provider of royalty free and rights managed stock photography, illustrations, maps, video, and audio.
- 3-D Web stereoscopic imagery and supplies
- Vector Graphic Stock Art royalty-free designer clipart (5% of net sales are donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
- Web clip art service
- World animation galleries worldwide cartoon art showcase
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