Spice Up Your Sites With These Web 2.0 Icons
Do you sometimes read blogs that contain just text? No images or photographs. What’s your impression? If the text is well laid out and with great headings to change the look then this is fine, particularly whewre an image may detract from the message but otherwise I personally lose interest AND fast.
Part of the problem is that most of us aren’t designers and creating an image or icon that is just right for a particular post is just not going to happen.
A while back I bought a set of icons that I’ve been using on various sites (see my post at WizzerNews.com for some examples) but I recently came across a great site where you can get hundreds of icons for virtually anything you could desire - all for free.
The following screen shot from Icon Finder shows the results when searching the term “photo”. Really neat.
Simply type in your keyword into the search box and all the relevant icons are dosplayed. If you prefer to see what other people are searching for (perhaps that will give you an idea for a post subject) you simply click on the Search Cloud link.
For example I randomly clicked on the term “file cabinet” and was presented with this page:
Just be careful when using the icons that you are not in breach of any licencing rules - so be certain to read the details located just under the search box on the IconFinder site.
Let me know how you get on with these. If you let me know whewre you’ve used the icons I’ll happily list the urls on this blog.
Great article and thanks for this great site! It’s going to be useful. Denise
Thanks for your positive feedback, Denise - it’s really appreciated - Mark
Comment by Denise | November 29, 2007
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