THE BEST WEB HOST IS RELATIVE

There are a lot of places where you can sign up to get royalty free clipart, and I’ll get to talking about those eventually, but nothing makes my heart happier than to find a great and truly free service, and that is where Clker.comcomes in.  It is the largest collection of absolutely free (you don’t even have to register with the site) clipart that I have been able to find and could be invaluable when setting up your site.

You can pretty much use the images for anything, from the design in your web hosting, to making t-shirts, fliers, newsletters–whatever you need clipart for.

I was unable to determine from looking around the site just how many clipart images they have, but there are quite a lot and they are adding more every day.  You have the option of selecting a category and scanning through what is there, or just entering what you are looking for in the search box and going from there (that’s the easy way).  Just as an example, I typed in penguin and was presented with 53 different images.  A search for “Web Hosting” got me nothing, and “hosting” got me a generic, rather old-fashioned, computer, but the word “web” got me a pageful of pictures with some nice looking servers (not to mention a bunch of spiders and some odd things I’m not sure how to relate to “web”).

Some of the art is fantastic,  some of it is…well…sub-fantastic; but overall I would rank the quality very good, and the majority of the pictures are of a decent size and seem to scale pretty well.  Certainly, given the extraordinary cost of nothing, I would certainly visit there, particularly if you are only looking for a single picture or two, before buying a clipart program or signing up for one of the different services online.

Bottom line:  It’s as close to perfect as free can get, one of those rare online gems.