There are many resources on the web to help you make great looking graphics. Here are a list of sites ordered by category that can be used to enhance your work.

www.bannerreport.com  - A massive gallery of banner ads. This website is an excellent resource if you are looking for ideas to create banner ads, it has over 15,000 banners.

www.carolinabannerexchange.com/banner-ad-comeback.htm - An excellent collection of links and articles concerning banner ads.

www.iab.net - The Internet Advertising Bureau.  Contains standards and guidelines for banner advertising.

www.allthelogos.com - An online database of logotypes and logo design. This includes more than 70,000 companies and organizations brands logos, team sports logos, countries flags and insignia as well as signs, general usage logos and more.

www.bannerreviews.com - A website that contains reviews of several banner networks.

www.marketingsherpa.com - This is an excellent article that discusses a banner ad campaign and what type of animation yields better results.

Banner Ads (GIFs)

www.bannermakerpro.com - Create banner ads, buttons, and logos using Banner Maker Pro. This program creates web graphics using animated gifs, non-animated gifs and jpegs. From the makers of Banner Maker Pro for Flash.

Flash

www.webreference.com/multimedia/flash/email - How to add a flash image as an email signature.

www.adobe.com/platform/?promoid=BLUJ - Homepage for Flash and the Flash Platform.

www.adobe.com - Instructions from Macromedia on how to create the HTML code to add a flash file to a webpage.

www.adobe.com - Instructions from the makers of Flash on what the OBJECT and EMBED tags are in the HTML code that gets generated for adding the flash banner to your website.

www.axclipart.com - Almost 150,000 all free webgraphics, which include over 33,000 backgrounds, bullets, webpage divider lines, and over 75,000 buttons with blank and pre-created buttons.

www.abcgiant.com - This website has a large number of backgrounds and buttons and other web graphics. Definitely worth a look. Requires free login.

www.backgrounds.smartwebcenter.com - An archive of over 4000 background images.

www.clipart.com - the web's largest subscription-based collection of clipart, photos, fonts, animations and sounds.

www.clipartgallery.com - This site contains clipart, buttons, and backgrounds.

www.fontsandthings.com - Lots and lots of fonts in an easy to browse collection.

www.myfonts.com - Another good collection of fonts with the ability to search for specific fonts and types of fonts, such as math symbols.

www.searchfreefonts.com - An easy to search directory of fonts.

www.fontfoundry.com - Another excellent collection of fonts.

www.fontfreak.com - A nice collection of fonts and dingbats for PC And Mac.

Image Hosting

www.photobucket.com - Allows hosting of image files, including flash files. Also allows hosting banner ads.

www.imageshack.us - Allows hosting of image files, including flash files. However, the terms of service do not permit hosting of banner ads.

www.designerwiz.com  - A free complete web development resource center for building, monitoring, maintaining, or enhancing your website with free Tools, Resources, JavaScripts, Generators, Software, Tutorials and more.

www.megawebtools.com - A listing of tools and utilities for all webmasters.

www.321webmaster.com/colorconverter.php - An automatic color converter that converts colors from RGB to Hex and back. If you need to match colors on your banner to a web page's color, this tool will help you.

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