Collecting graphics is really fun

Web graphics are any kind of images or GIFs that can be used to decorate a webpage, there are a lot of them and they're usually categorized based on their size and purpose, they're also super fun to make and collect since they're pretty easy to create you can find one for pretty much anything on places like Tumblr, Geocities and other Neocities websites and if you can't it shouldn't be too hard to make them yourself and since they're often the same size you can put a lot of them together and it will look really simmetrical and pretty like bricks on a wall, you can use them to let people know what your interests are in a very subtle way, make your page look prettier or to fill in any empty spaces, I really collecting web graphics

None of the graphics here were made by me (except for the ones in the "made by me" section obviously) but I always try my best to credit the original artist however for a lot of these it's unknown who the official creator is so if I can't be sure of who the creator is I will just link to the place I found the graphic on

All images in this collection are hosted on File Garden so you I don't mind that much if you hotlink them but I still recommend hosting any graphics you want to your own site since sometimes I rename my files and if I ever do that your image will be broken

The links to the actual collection

Blinkies

Blinkies are 150x20 rectangles that usually (but not always) feature a short phrase or statement and are sometimes acompannied by a small image on one of the sides, they're one of the most iconic kinds of graphics because of their simple design most of them are monochromatic so I organize them by color

Stamps

Stamps are 99x56 rectangles meant to resemble real-life stamps (the ones used in letters), they originated in DevianART and are commonly used to either share opinions via text and emoticons or to be decorative, stamps are really versatile and there are lots of different stamps so I oganize them by their theme and what they are displaying

Buttons

Buttons are 88x31 images that were created as a fun way to link to your own personal website (and they're still used for this purpose to this day) but there also a couple of buttons that don't really to anything and serve as either giving extra info about the site or pure decoration, those are the ones I collect on this page but if you're interested in the other kind of buttons then check out my button wall

Dividers

The rules that define what is and isn't a divider are way less strict than other kinds of web graphics, dividers are used to separate 2 paragraphs in a more aesthetically pleasing way, I classify them in 2 categories, repeating and non repeating, you can place multiple small repeating dividers next to each other and they will look like one single big divider while non repeating ones don't allow for this transition to happen so seamlessly

Favicons

You see that rat in the top left of the window right beside the name of the page? that's a favicon, they're tiny images or GIFs used to make websites more distinct and recognizable however because of their small size they can be used for other things like emoticons, images in bullet points or just decorations, I know it looks like I don't have a lot of them because they're so small but I swear I have a ton of favicons, it just doesn't look like much because they're tiny

IMVU/Shiny buttons

IMVU buttons have an 18px height and the width varies depending on the lenght of the text, they're colorful buttons that have often feature one word and some pixel art associated with said word and an animation that makes it look like they're glowing (hence the nicknmae "shiny buttons"), they're a bit rarer to find and there's not a super consistent theme with them so I just organize them based on their color

Userboxes

I don't think there's a universally agreed upon size for userboxes however they're all long rectangles with a square image on the left and text saying "this user____" on the right, they originate from Wikipedia users wanting to express their interests without having to write super long texts and making the info easier to process and that's pretty much the same way they're used nowadays, to express what you like/think in a simple way

Userbars

Userbars are 350x19 thin rectangles that often show some text and a cropped image, they're a pretty unpopular kind of web graphic because their small size doesn't allow for a lot of characterization so I don't have a lot of them therefore I don't really bother putting them into categories because each category would have very little userbars

GIFs

GIFs are the most varied kind of graphic I collect, I have a ton of different moving images of different sizes and themes since GIFs are one of the most useful kinds of graphics when it comes to decorating a website since it can be both decorative and be helpful for letting viewers know what kind of page you are presenting, I organize them by size from smallest to biggest

Made by me

Sometimes I want a graphic that's so specific nobody has made it yet so I'm forced to create it myself, this hasn't happened very often but every once in a million years I'll publish a silly GIF here