I want to spice up the look of some of my programs, and I think that visual graphics taking the place of regualar command buttons and stuff like that...

I need to kno whow to do this on VB 6.0, and 2005 because my school has 6.0 and I have 2005

Add a new button to your form.
In the properties box for the button scroll down to
"style" and change to "graphical"
Scroll up to "picture" and add the pic you want.
Hope that helps.

Raw hasn't specified but thats the VB6 method.

Or you can use the Threed32.ocx to have the same effect but you don't have to set any Style just load a picture into it. Threed32.ocx also has a lot of additional features compared with the standard VB6 controls, I'm supprised more users don't use it.

Its on the VB6 CD, but you need to register it with an additonal reg file in the same folder.

You can embed IE instance in your VB6 app. Use basic HTML to design the GUI with graphical animated buttons and all and capture IE events to know which button user is clicking. Norton antivirus is using this method for years (I first noticed in 2001) though they use C++ I think.