DON'T DON'T link back to the graphic as it stands here. For one thing, your site will run faster if all your graphics are found at your site. For another thing, this site will run slower, become more annoying, etc., if people make a habit of linking graphics here and there to their own place. Some servers get annoyed. However, everything graphical in the Free Graphics pages are my own creations.
Backgrounds are useful for web page composition.
Graphics have been created using Paint Shop Pro , and, in early desperation, the old Paintbrush program that comes with Windows 3.1 was used once.