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YOU'VE ALL SEEN cool Websites. Great graphics and chock full of information. And those neat animated arrows, buttons, words, and objects really add pizzazz. Ever wonder where those animations come from?

There are a number of sources. You can labor for hours to create your own. First, you have to have the skill to come up with the basic graphic itself. Then, you need the software to put the graphic into motion to achieve the animation effect. Or you can "borrow" them from someone else's Website. However, that is neither legal nor very nice.

So, if you don't have the skill to create animated graphics, and don't want to rip off someone else, fear not. WebSpice Animations, from DeMorgan Industries Corporation is just the ticket. One of DeMorgan's principals is none other than our own Mike Kaltschnee, a DACS member and (more than) frequent contributor to dacs.doc. DeMorgan's previous releases on CD are WebSpice and WebSpice 1,000,000, both spectacular collections of royalty-free backgrounds, textures, buttons, and other graphics for Web page creation.

Now, with WebSpice Animations, DeMorgan has put together a vast array of high-quality, 3D-animated objects, buttons, words, and arrows. Each image is provided in GIF format and comes in a variety of styles, colors, and motions. WebSpice Animations (WSA) spans two CDs and uses your Web browser for the interface.

When you put in the first CD of WSA, a startup screen pops up. When the Launch button is clicked, WSA fires up your default Web browser. DeMorgan has created a great interface. The Animation Selection Wizard guides you through the CDs to find the animation you need quickly and easily. The wizard presents you with the choice of object, buttons, words, and arrows to start with. Click on any of the four choices, and you proceed to a page full of different types of images.

For example, by clicking on the Arrows button, you are presented with no less than 26 different arrow styles. Choosing an arrow style brings you to another page that lets you select from four motion styles: tumble, spin, bounce, and grow. From there, you move through pages that let you choose background types of black, white, or transparent, followed by your choice of 25 different colors. Once you've decided on the image that you want, simply right-click on the image in the browser and save it to your hard drive. Then it can be easily inserted into your Web page.

There are other collections of images on the market for use in your Web page projects, but I really find that the combination of high-quality images and the easy-to-use Animation Selection Wizard makes WebSpice Animations what I need when looking for images for my Web page projects.

For more information on all of DeMorgan's WebSpice products, check out their Website at www.webspice.com.