You’ve decided to have a website for yourself or your business. Great! You know what you want to say, how you want it laid out, what pages you need, and all the other good stuff that goes into a great website. But what about graphics? Where do you get buttons, banners, title art, photographs, animation, bars, backgrounds and all the other things you need to make your website look visually interesting?
I asked myself that same question when I created my first website.e https://nhacaiuytin.group/ It took me more than a few days of scouring the web to find what I needed. I Googled and Yahooed for many terms, including: art, clipart, clip art, graphics and free art. In the end, I found some great sites.
Depending on what kind of website you have, finding these things can be easy or difficult. There are three main types of websites, personal, nonprofit and business. The first two can find dozens to hundreds of places to get free artwork that fits the theme of their site. A business site will have a more difficult time. This is because the people that make this artwork usually don’t have a problem giving it to people who won’t make money off of their website. Most personal sites don’t make any money, and giving stuff to nonprofit sites is just, well, the right thing to do. But for a site designed for a business that plans on making money, the artist wants his cut. The artist’s opinion is that, “The business can afford it so they should pay.”
For a business site, before surfing the web for graphics, you may want to consider making your own. You can draw the artwork and then scan it, or create it with Photoshop or any of the other graphic’s programs that are out there. Or a friend who is artistic can do the drawings, or you could even barter with a professional artist. I have done all of these. The advantage of making your own artwork is that it will be unique and perfectly suited to your site. This will also be the most time consuming since you will have to create everything from scratch.
Your next step involves using artwork created by others and available on the Internet, on CD’s or in books. Before you use any of this artwork you must check the rights that they offer. It’s back to that business / personal thing I mentioned above.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of websites that have all kinds