I just love building web sites! Unfortunately, I have almost no artistic abilities at all. Fortunately, the Web is a very generous place, a place where artists let you hang their art in your home, for nothing more than the cost of a link. There is something to suit any taste, almost any design, you just have to get out there and find it! One thing, remember the difference between free ware and link ware. Please give credit where credit is due, and help keep link ware on the web! To help myself keep all of this straight, (making sure I've got all the graphics, making sure I credit the right artists) I've created a folder on my desktop named 'Webart'. When I come across some art that I want to use, I create a folder in the Webart folder named for that artist ('Jaguar', for instance or 'Moyra'). If it's an entire set that I'm after (and it usually is) I open the artist's page in Composer (you can do the same in Front Page Express) and save the whole thing in that artist's folder on my hard drive. This way, I've got all of the images (unless it's a mouseover thing, more on that later) and the credit logo, and the credit link, and any other information that the artist has been kind enough to supply, all in one easy download. Then, when it's time to build a page using that art, I can easily copy and paste the graphics, the credit link, whatever, from one Composer document into the other. Entirely too easy. Regarding mouseover images: If an artist is providing a mouseover set they will usually have the 'on' and 'off' images posted separately so that you can 'right click, save as' both images. Occasionally an artist may put up a mouseover set up so you can see how it works. That artist may neglect to post the separate images for your downloading convenience (most web artists are working against at least one deadline, naturally the freebies will be the area that gets neglected) In this case, the 'open in Composer (or Front Page Express) and save the whole mess' method will get you the 'off' images. Right Click, Save As gets you the 'on' images. Another thing, don't ever ever ever place a graphic on your page by linking to that graphic on someone else's server! This is not only the absolute depths of internet rudeness, it is actually stealing. My site is on a free server, and yours may be, too, but serious web masters have mammoth sized sites that cost money to serve. If you link to one of their graphics and you get a hundred hits, that's a hundred draws on their account. If you linked to 2 of their graphics, that's 200 draws. If there are 100 people doing the same thing you are, you can imagine how this will drive their costs up! Why should you care? Well, because you are a nice person, for one thing. For another, you may drive your favorite sites off of the web with this behavior. Also, because they fight back, as well they should. You may not enjoy the resulting consequences. You aren't really anonymous, you know. It's amazing to me how many people don't get this, or think it doesn't apply to them. Thus the oft repeated mantra of the Web Artists : Do not link to the graphics, download to your own site. Right Click; Save As Now & Forever, Amen 'nuff said Here are some links to some of my favorite places to find web site enhancements. If you are looking for graphics for your South Louisiana pages, you might try look around, get inspired, and build something! After you've cruised around and picked up a few things and your hard drive starts groaning from the overload, and your beautiful new web site seems to take hours to load . . . it's time to visit the not free anymore, but well worth the cost. Don't want to part with the cash? Well, you can use the It only optimizes .gif files, but it's better than nothing. Then again, there is Ulead's Graphics Optimization Toolkit, which will optimize .gif, .jpg and .png files for free. It's an online version of their excellent software package. Of course, you might want to purchase the program to run on your 'puter so you can optimize off-line.