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Miscellaneous Topics

As I travel the Net I find topics of at least passing interest for my students. Since these topics may have but a limited useful life I've listed then here. This page will change often.

1. Graphics

I 've tried only some of these. However, I have no reason to believe they are not good sites. Picked the list up from a Web consultants mail-list. (Note: I've Been adding to this list from various sources.)

http://tudogs.com/clipart.html
http://www.andyart.com/
http://www.aye.net/~mike/
http://www.barrysclipart.com/
http://www.biohaven.com/gallery/ If it is a bug it is likely here
http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/iconbrowser/icons.html
http://www.clipart.com/ --- Index of clip art sites
http://www.clipartcastle.com/index.htm --- Clip Art Castle
http://www.clubs.psu.edu/aegsa/freegifs.html
http://www.demon.co.uk/Tangent/texture/
http://www.ender-design.com/rg/index.html
http://www.freeimages.com/ A collection of highly styled images
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1448/main.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6603/
http://www.graphic-design.com/dtg/dtg-solutions/clipart/
Clip Art: The good, the bad and the ugly."
http://little.fishnet.net/~gini/cool/
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/1010/freegifs.htm
http://www.iconbazaar.com/ A very large collection!
http://www.iconographics.com/
http://www.idt.unit.no/~bratseth/icons/clipart/clipart.html
An extensive, mostly black & white collection http://www.ist.net/clipart/themespc.html
http://www.lemcon.ml.org/lemcon/graphics/
Lem Con Graphics Vault. They are free!
http://www.lycos.com/picturethis/ Lycos Pictures and Sound 40,000 free images of current pictures and vintage illustrations are claimed.
http://www.mcm.edu/graphics.html
http://www.newsart.com/ News Art $$
http://www.rad.kumc.edu/artwork.htm A library of Icons
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~blane/ A collection of photographs, free for acidemia.
http://www.pambytes.com/ Pambytes, a site for a mixed bag of buttons, menus, clip art, and such.
http://www.webplaces.com/html/clipart.htm
http://www.webutilities.com/gif_ani/download/index_down.htm Ulead GIF Animation
Free if for personal use. I particularly like the set of animated letters, numbers and arrows. http://www.webcom.com/html/icons.shtml A large number of graphics sources.
http://www.windyweb.com/design/Borders
http://webreference.com/authoring/graphics/images.html A list of sites that make graphics available.
http://www.animationlibrary.com/ Animation Library
http://www.rad.kumc.edu/icons/icons.htm Icons
http://www.flinthills.com/~bluebird/graphics/free2.htm WebCat!

2. How to examine your cache.

I picked the following discovery from the ADV-HTML mail-list. It was included in a response to a question asked by Elliott Manley

Subject: How does cache work?

He asked: "Can anyone explain how caching works in Netscape and/or MSIE? What algorithm is used to generate the filenames - and how are the correct files found again so quickly among so many thousands of their friends?"

The only reply was from Remy Lebeau who explained, among other things, that:

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Netscape offers a feature to make browsing these files easy. Just type "about:cache" (no quotes) into the address. You will be presented with a listing of every file in the cache, as well as information of these files, such as file size, cache name, and original URL address. You can also use the "about:image-cache" to list certain images (not all images are placed in this special cache, so you'll have to go through the regular cache to view them all), "about:global" to view a complete listing of every site you've visited (this can get EXTREMELY long), "about:plugins" to see what plugins are installed, "about:" to view information about Netscape itself.
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Thanks Remy,

Elliott Manley

3. Web How-To.
A rather extensive listing of sources for Web page development guidance. Perhaps more than one can deal with.

http://goldray.com/webdesign/design_resources.htm

As with much you will find on the Web, some of this "guidance" is controversial. However it does make you think and "debate" your choices.

4. Logo Generators.
I've listed a number of sites that generate signs, logos and the like.

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