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	• Work with pictures • Add motion and visual effects • Hear from your visitors • Consult online references • Test your site

What should you know about pictures and color?
How do you create rollovers and other popular visual effects? Here are introductions to key concepts, as well as information about components that can add instant functionality to your site now.

Building blocks:: Get pictures or create your own
GIFs, JPGs, resolution, 8-bit, 24-bit, anti-aliasing... yikes! Just want to add some pictures to your site? Grab some ready-made images from our partner galleries. Or bone up on basic concepts, cash in your coupon for a discount on JASC Paint Shop Pro 6.0, and start creating your own art.

Add motion and interactivity
Image rollovers, animations, ticker tape messages, ad banners, and pictures that fly across the page. Sure, you can pull off all these effects, and more. Just add pre-built components, or build your own dynamic actions. No programming is required.

Hear from your visitors
Your Web site shouldn't be a one-sided conversation. Site visitors can interact with you and each other by sending email, submitting forms, or even posting messages on a communal message board. And you don't have to write CGI to set any of this up.

Consult online references
Now that you're your own publisher, consult the same encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other references professional writers use to conduct research and check facts. You don't need to spend your kids' college fund on a pile of expensive books. Everything you need, and then some, is available free on the Internet.

Test your site
We know you're excited to get your pages up on the Web. But first, take a little time to make sure they work well on everyone's browser, not just on yours. Here's what to check for.

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Don't press that Publish button until you've checked out how components from coolmaps.com can spice up your site.

Survey your site visitors with a free Web poll from Pollit.com.

Download free Web-ready images from Getty Images and StockObjects.

Designing your own art? Cash in your coupon for a discount on JASC Paint Shop Pro 6.0.