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Banners

This category lists the following types of sites:

Companies, organizations or individuals that create, distribute, or sell banner advertisements for use on other websites.
Sites offering banners for download and use on web pages.
Sites that allow you to create your own banners.
Any other sites about creating and using banners on web pages.

DO NOT list subpages for Web or Graphic Design firms that offer banner creation services or products.

Please DO NOT submit subpages of web design firms that offer banner creation and design services. They will not get listed here.

Coordinated background sets for use in web page design are themed sets that usually consist of everything you will need for your webpage that is backgrounds, buttons, horizontal bars, welcome banners, e-mail, and links buttons. Many of these sets are created free for non-profit use, or are termed "linkware," which means that you may use them freely, so long as you credit the site where you found them with a link, so others can find their graphics, too.

Please Read this Before Submitting Your Site

Submissions must be for English language sites of individuals or companies providing free or linkware ''Coordinated Web Sets'' for download.

Please submit only sites which contain free or linkware coordinated web sets as the main public offering.

If your services are primarily website templates that are pre-designed website pages, please submit instead to Web Templates.

If your services are primarily web design, please submit instead to the most appropriate category in Web Designers.

Sites with adult content or Pop-up windows with adult links, will not be listed in this category. Please submit such sites to the relevant sub-category in Adult: Arts: Visual Arts.

Foreign language sites should be submitted to the most appropriate category in World

Following these guidelines will help prevent delays in having your site listed.

Directories

A directory is a guide for sites that provide an indexing of sites or categorized links, sometimes with a brief description, including additional information or a list of resources. Directories sometimes allow users to submit URLs.

Please submit only Web Sites that provide a list of sites or categorized links for Web Graphics.

Please submit only Web Sites that provide a directory of sites or categorized links for Web Graphics. This would include graphics that Webmasters can use on their Web pages like animated GIFs, banners, backgrounds, interfaces, page elements, clip art, and other resources.

Following these guidelines will allow us to add your site to the directory as quickly as possible.

Please do not submit your site if you have Affiliate links. Sites that are affiliates or lists of affiliate links that do not contain original content will not be listed.
Sites which are gateways to affiliate sites will not be added.
Sites with Adult content will not be listed in this category. Please submit such sites to the relevant sub-category in Adult.
If after your site is listed and you feel your site is not in the proper category, you may submit your site to what you deem is the correct category and leave a note to the editor stating the reason you feel the change is justified.

This category is for sites that provide Web Graphic-oriented directories, links, and other resources; especially those, which help people, create web sites.

Emojis

Collections of smiley graphics, emoticons and emojis, used in social media, applications, chats, forums and weblogs.

FAQs, Help, and Tutorials

When you need to learn a specific topic, or are trying to get up to speed on new software, there is nothing better than a tutorial. This section features step-by-step tutorials on most major Web design software, including raster and vector programs as well as third party plug-ins. You will also find articles and discussions on Web graphic related topics like optimization and Web color.

Please submit only teaching tutorials for Web software. These do not have to be step-by-step, but they should serve to teach new skills that relate to software.

Favicons

A favicon (short for "favorites icon"), is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A webmaster can specify such an create such an icon with his site, and modern web browsers make use of them in various ways, for example displaying the icon next to the address in the location bar, and in bookmarks / favorites menus.

Listing sites with information about using or making favicons. Please see subcategories for software and web applications used to create favicons.

Free

Please Read this Before Submitting Your Site

Submissions must be for English language sites of individuals or companies providing free or linkware ''Animated GIFs'' for download.

Please submit here if the majority of the contents of your site are Animated GIFs (free or linkware).

If your web site is offering additional graphics other than Animated GIFs, please submit to Computers/Graphics/Web/Free/.

If your services are primarily web design, please submit instead to the most appropriate category in Web Designers.

Foreign language sites should be submitted to the most appropriate category in World

Following these guidelines will help prevent delays in having your site listed.

Sites That Will Not Be Accepted

Sites with adult content or Pop-up windows with adult links, will not be listed in this category, even if they are animation-based. Please submit such sites to the relevant sub-category in Adult: Arts: Visual Arts.

Sites that are affiliates or lists of affiliate links that do not contain original content.

Templates

A web template is a pre-designed web page framework which can be edited to include content/text. Professional web templates contain the necessary HTML code and graphics to display properly in a web browser. Upon downloading a web template, the user can edit the HTML code and/or graphics to suit their unique requirements. Edits to web template are performed using an HTML editor and some templates require a specific HTML software application whereas some only require a plain text editor.

If the site offers templates specific to only one HTML editor, it should be submitted to one of the following sub-categories:

DREAMWEAVER: If your site deals primarily in Dreamweaver templates, please submit to the sub category Dreamweaver.
FLASH: If your site deals primarily in Flash templates, please submit to Flash.
FRONTPAGE: If your site deals primarily in Microsoft FrontPage templates, please submit to FrontPage.
JOOMLA: If your site deals primarily in Joomla templates, please submit to Joomla.
WEBLOG: If your site deals primarily in Weblogs (i.e. wordpress, blogger, typepad, etc.) templates, please submit to Weblog.
MEMBERSHIP: If your site deals primarily in membership based purchases, please submit to Membership

Userbars

Userbars are small rectangular images that are designed to be put in an Internet forum signature block. They are often animated and usually display the interests of the user. Their dimensions are constrained in such a way that they look good "stacked" up.