WebPagesThatSuck.com is an award- winning site that teachers good design by looking at bad design. It has won some of the most important awards on the Internet and has made headlines elsewhere. Best of all, it is funny.

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/home.html

The folks at Webconference.com have an excellent tutorial on all aspects of graphic optimization. The tutorial gives insights into how the technology functions.

http://www.webreference.com/dev/graphics

This is a strange web site that provides an interesting step by step approach to creating your own background tiles.

http://www.stink.com/web/webtile/

This is a feature article found on the c/net web site. It is a few years old; but it still is a very good introduction into the process of creating animations.

http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Techno/Gif89/