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10 Places to Download Free Icon Sets

Joel Reyes — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:00:52 +0000

Whether you want to spice up the look of your desktop, create a unified theme on your website, or use them for graphic design, matching icon sets come in handy. Although in recent times the use of icons has shifted towards web and interface design, icon sets are useful for many purposes.

If you have the proper skills, you can use applications such as Illustrator to customize your vectors and design a spiffy icon set, but why re-create the wheel?

Here are 10 top resources for free icon sets. Download them directly onto your desktop for instant beautification. (...)
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Image Mapping with CSS

Philip Beel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:00:28 +0000

Image Mapping – This tutorial will show you the benefits of image mapping and why you should implement it when building websites. I will take you through the how and why, plus show you image mapping in action. This image mapping tutorial is aimed at beginners and will only require you to know the basics of HTML and CSS.(...)
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Free Stock Icons Roundup

Oli — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:28:57 +0000

Icons are needed for most websites and web apps, yet creating a quality icon set is a time-consuming process. If you’re not the best at designing them yourself, or you just don’t want to reinvent the wheel, there are many great companies where you can buy icons for a fee. But why pay for them when you can icons for free?

We’ve searched high and low to find the best free icon sets on the web. We looked for everyday icons, icons that could easily be customized, basic icons that would be useful over and over. There may still be times when you need to sit down and create your own icons from scratch. But for all the other times, we present you with the very best free icons…

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