It's also important to get information from others... You will find here a list of web sites offering images, animations, backgrounds as well as tips and tricks to help you build your first page :

Ressources and tips :
All Html Great site with tips and tricks for most of the programming languages of the web and a lot of examples !
Bravenet.com Free guestbooks, forums, email forms, greeting cards, hit counters, search engines, mailing lists....
Michele-web.com Learn to build a web page step by step tutorials. HTML tips and how to's for the novice and the advanced...
Clipart :
Animation factory Hundreds of animated gifs, images and backgrounds.
Gograph.com Huge source of images and photographs.
Free Foto : It is one of the largest collections of free photographs for non-commercial use on the Internet. ...