I’m no great graphic designer! Most of the graphics I use on my pages have been created by other people. Legally, of course!

Either the graphics are in the public domain or I’ve bought a graphics collection or I’ve hired a graphics designer to produce stuff to my specification.

Yesterday, I paid 17 bucks for a huge collection of graphics - little things, “website furniture” if you like. I’ve had a quick look through quite a few of them and there are definitely some which I’ll be using in the future.

Buried deep in the thousands of files which I downloaded was a reference to part of the collection being licensed under a “GPL” (”General Public License”), which means you can do anything you like with such stuff, except claim that it’s your original work. The text file gave a link to the guy who created this part of the collection, so I downloaded this graphic collection.

It’s neat! If you want to pick up a copy, here’s the link:

http://www.IanSays.com/HelpYourself/graphics.html

Enjoy!