When you have all these neat Web 2.0 image generators that make uber slick graphics for free and in minutes if not seconds. Y’all know I’ve been talking about Quick Web Creations on an off.

Today, I needed to come up with one of those “Please wait while this application loads” images for a client’s project. I’m not a graphic designer and don’t want to mess with creating one myself. There’s got to be a generator out there.

Sure enough, I found Ajaxload. Veerry neat! Select the type of indicator you want, background color, color of the image, hit generate, voila! Featured in this post are some of the images I created. Took me less than a minute for each.

P/S: There is of course a need for real graphics programs. For those design challenged like me, we sure are thankful for lovely tools like these.

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For some reason my attention seems to be centered around graphics and images these two weeks. This week, I found a few more really cool resources and tools that you’ll want to check out. Here goes.

photo credit: ottonassar

Photo Dropper - thanks to ProBlogger, I immediately jumped on this plugin. I’ve been using more photos on my blog for several months and been using these sites to get pictures. But the problem is, searching for photos, cropping and resizing can take a lot of time. It slows down my blog posts and makes the most spontaneous posts a chore. This plugin helps you search for photos from Flickr and insert it into your posts with just one click. Sweet. I am using it on this post itself.

Quick Web Creations - I outsource many of my graphic needs. I am not good at logos, e-covers, headers, icons and stuff like that. For the important

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