Quick Who Is Lookup

If you need to know who owns a website where it’s registered, when it was registered, etc. here’s a quick whois lookup site that avoids the usual captcha step to get you the info you need with minimal fuss.
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Easy to Use News Management System

Cute News is an easy to use News Management system for running news updates, info bulletins etc. It supports commenting, archives, search function, file upload management, backup & restore, IP banning, flood protection and much more with no need for MySQL databases. The free version says “Powered by CuteNews…” in your news.

Some of the features, from the site:

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Less Annoying Captcha

Perhaps not the most secure way on earth to ensure that the visitor is human and not a bot, but it’s clever and easy enough to use that you are much less likely to irritate your web visitors off your site. Full instructions on installation are all on the site
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SEO Data Finder

URLinfo gives you access to an enormous amount of info about a website via a tabbed panel of tools. It’s really an online interface that accesses dozens of useful online databases from one place.
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Free Vector Graphics – An Enormous List

There are thousands of websites offering one or two free vector images on them so I have tried to limit this list to sites that give you access to a decent amount of free vector images in one place. I have made a few exceptions where the images themselves are of exceptional quality, are rare niche images or the site has a lot more to offer besides those free samples.

And now, in no particular order, let’s…bring on the freebies!

Freevectors.net
Hundreds of Searchable Vector Graphics Sets

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Webchantier.com

Giant repository of vector graphics including some great hard to find coats of arms and symbols. Other categories include logos, flags, football (soccer) clubs, pictograms, marine flags and fonts.

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Vectorgraphics.com

Large source of free vector graphics divided into categories such as tattoos, decorations, dingbats, Celtic, Christmas, angels, Egyptian, tribal and more.
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Vecteezy.com

Vecteezy is a great source of free vector graphics which allows you to search by content, file type, license and more
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GoMedia Freebies

Included in the set are samples from Architecture, Trees, Banners, Halftones, Zoology, Wings, Tech Shapes, Skulls, Destroy, Grimy Doodads, Statues, Crests, Paint Splatters, Spray Paint
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Dragonartz.com
Lots of beautiful vector art backgrounds from Dragonartz
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Allsilhouettes.com

1,663 free silhouettes in 31 vector packs. Themes include graphics, symbols, people, businessmen and women, trees, chess pieces, nature, hearts, ornaments, objects and creatures.
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Briarpress.org

600 free vector images, primarily focusing on ornamental and border graphics
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Vectorlady.com

Miscellaneous, themed, free vector packs
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AIGA – 50 passenger/pedestrian Symbols

You’ve seen them at airports, bus stations and malls, now download them for yourself. Including symbols for: toilets, first aid, nursery, bus, taxi, lost and found, restaurant, bar, luggage, baggage, customs, immigration, arrivals, departures, no smoking, parking symbols and, well all the rest.
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Logos from Best Brands

If you are looking for brand name logos in vector format (eps usually) this should be your first stop. Search through many thousands of brand logos by category or keyword. It’s not unusual to find the last 6 historical versions of any particular brand logo.
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digital-artist-toolbox.com

Road sign vector graphics
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BitBox Vector Freebies

An excellent blog with tons of freebies of all kinds including many free vectors from glossy to grunge.
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KeepDesigning.com

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Designious

Free samples from commercial collections.
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Public-domain-photos.com

This site claims to have 8,000 vector images in svg format. I haven’t counted them.

Categories include:Animals, Buildings, Cards, Computer, Education, Electronics, Flags, Food, Holiday, Other, People, Plants, Recreation, Science, Shapes, Signs and Symbols, Tools, Transportation
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CreateSk8.com

Tons of free vector images, illustrator brushes and eps sets from the lovely createsk8 blog.
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Keepdesigning.com

Fantastic, beautiful and free eps vector collections from Keepdesigning.com.
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QVectors.com
Specially selected ‘quality’ vector collections. Categories include Abstract, Icons, Illustration, Misc, Nature, Swirl and Symbols
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Vectorstock.com

About 120 or so miscellaneous vector images
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FreeVectorGraphics.net

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Spoongraphics.co.uk Blog Freebies

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Twitter Bird Vector Graphics

and finally from spoongraphics, some free twitter vector images .
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…Oh Wait, this site also has a nice roundup of links to free vector maps, a relatively rare commodity. As with all these links, check the licenses as that can often be a stumbling block.

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Deviantart.com

A great source for all things arty, including these vector graphics.
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Dragonartz Snowflakes

Snowflake vectors images set (available as eps pdf and svg)
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Clip-art-design

500 free samples from their various collections
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Coolvectors.com

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VectorPortal.com

Free vector graphics sorted by category including symbols, logos, flags and maps.
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Speech and Thought Balloon Vector Graphics

Web Design Blog Speech Balloon Images

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About.com Speech Balloons

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DesignWorkPlan.com – 56 Free Arrow Graphics

Adobe Illustrator format.
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15 Free Grunge vectors – svg, eps.(80MB)

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Fuctastic.com
Several free high quality vector graphics packs.
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Snap2Objects

Another nice blog with, among many things, free vector images.
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HavanaStreet.com

Free samples of their fantastic retro vector collections
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Playing card vector images from David Bellot

Full deck including jokers in SVG format
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Jlwdesign.com

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Vector4free

Hundreds of  free vector images and collections
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Gomediamagazine.com

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I hope you find these links useful. I’m sure there are many sites missing from this list so if you know of some great resources for free vector graphics please share them by leaving links in the comments. This post will continue to be updated periodically.

For more enormous lists of freebies check out the Enormous list of free textures, the Enormous list of free Icons and the Enormous list of free fonts. If you have any suggestions for future lists of free web design related resources you’d like to see I’d love to see them in the comments as well and I’ll see what I can do.

Thanks.
Enjoy!

Online Sprite Generator

This full featured online tool with many configurable options combines multiple gif, jpg or png images into one which can then be sliced up via CSS to be displayed as they would appear if they were separate.

This greatly reduces the amount of elements your page needs to load, thereby dramatically speeding up page load time. CSS Sprites can be a bit of a pain to create but this web tool makes the process pretty painless.
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Create Photo Effects Online

Choose an image from your computer and  within seconds you can apply one of the dozens of very nicely executed effects. See your image in a book, on a coin, as a sketch on a billboard or a tv.
 

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Photoshop Form Element Templates

Free layered form templates for Photoshop from Webdesigners Toolkit
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Sticky Note Generator

Write a note and click “Create »” to make your own sticky note picture which you can then download or save to Flickr or imageShack

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