My search for information on creating web pages led me to many excellent sites, far too many to mention them all.

The best site to start with for beginners is Create It~101. This site gives you all the basics to get started. It also has links to other sites that are very informative, including graphic sites.

Another excellent site is Writing HTML. This site is set up in lesson format and you can download them to work offline. You create a web page as you learn.

As I progressed in efforts to learn more about building webpages, I came across a site that has it all. BigNoseBird.com

In my effort to learn as much as possible, my journey led me to Web Monkey

In October 2002, I stumbled across an excellent tutorial on creating webpages aimed at children but is an excellent site for all ages. Lisa Explains it All

For graphics for your web page, you have a multitude of choices. I have visited 100s of pages and that is only a small number of sites that have free graphics etc for your personal web page. Remember the number one rule! Do not link directly to their graphics from your web page. Download them to your hard drive. Do not be a Bandwidth thief. Please read their terms. Some sites require you to give them credit on your web page if you use their graphics. Here is a list of a few of the sites.

A Webring for Graphic Sites
Over 700 members offering free web graphics. An excellent place to start your search if you don't find what you need at the sites listed below.

Windy's Free Image Gallery
I have used two backgrounds from Windy's from her gingham collection for my children's pages.

Graphics by Pat
Lots of lovely graphics

Backgrounds by JulieE
Check out my gardening pages for one of her excellent backkgrounds

Backgrounds by Marie
You can't miss this site.

Lori's Backgrounds
A lovely site.

Susan's Free Backgrounds
You will see one of her excellent backgrounds on my cat Saki's page.

Doggie Designs by Katty
Any dog lover must not miss this one.

CatStuff Graphics
A site for the cat lover.

Web graphics from Castleberry Arts
Excellent quality graphics

Just Julies Graphics
These are well made graphics made by hand. Take a look at my recipe pages for an example of the down home flavour of her graphics.

Topz Design
I used one of the designs from this site on some of my gardening pages.

Border Sets by Linda
I found an excellent background for this page at this site.

Suzy's Graphics
It was hard to choose a background for my camping page from so many excellent ones on this site.

Vintage Victoria
Check out the graphic from this site on my home page and my personal pages.

The hardest part of finding graphics for your web site is choosing which ones to use from the thousands of excellent graphics provided for your free use.