Vista & XP Style Icons

Google Doodle for 450th Anniversary of St Basils Cathedral

2011-07-11T11:53:00.000-07:00

Here is the new Google doodle which marks the 450th Anniversary celebration of St. Basil's Cathedral.

We all know that this is the most famous church in Moscow, Russia. Below is the Google doodles which joins to celebrate the anniversary of Saint Basil's Cathedral.

Google's Doodle in Memory of Alam Ara

2011-03-13T21:26:00.001-07:00

Hi all..
Today 14th March 2011, Google marks the 80th anniversary of Alam Ara- the first Indian movie with sound by its fantastic doodle.

Have a look at the doodle I have attached.

Google doodle Celebration of Novelist Jules Verne's Birthday

2011-02-07T22:25:00.000-08:00

Hi all,

It's Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - Search Engine Specialist Google Celebrates the birthday of the famous French Novelist Jules Verne.

Its the 183rd Birthday of Jules Gabriel Verne, who pioneered the science-fiction genre. With the innovative logo from Google, let's all celebrate the birthday of the famous writer Jules Verne.

Google Results for Free Icons

2011-01-24T01:46:00.000-08:00

Its my update on 24th January 2010. While Surfing google I would like to check once again the competiton and the no of results that google shows for the keyword "Free Icons" in www.google.com.

Amazingly I got 28,700,000 results. I predict competiton for the keyword is growing up. Looks good I will keep on posting.

Business promo in Foursquare

2010-11-11T03:40:00.001-08:00

Do you Know?

Foursquare is a social networking site which helps people to connect with others. Foursquare is a location based network and also an application in mobile that helps to check in when you are in some public places or shops. Based on the number of check-ins the person makes in a particular place, rewards and badges are awarded. Such a site is used for promoting business and the businessmen use them well. To know more about promoting business, click email marketing companies.

A foursquare user visits a store and checks in at the venue. He then has the opportunity to leave a tip about his experience in the store and about the store. This tip enormously helps the owner of the store to grow his business as every person who sees that tip may visit the store. Small business owners have some fear as a user who visits may also leave a negative comment too. It should be understood that such comments are helpful in improving the business.

The business person can also offer many gift coupons or discounts in his store when the user visits his store frequently or depending on the number of check in made by the user. Using foursquare tips, the business owners can promote their messages about business. They can leave tips for the customer regarding offers in their store and the services provided by them. Any person can view the tips about the store when they visit the store and check in at the venue. So it is very useful as the people get right tips at right venue.

Each business owner helps the foursquare user to unlock many specials when they visit his store. Some of the specials include

• Mayor specials
• Check in specials
• Frequency based specials
• wildcard specials

Using foursquare the business owners can know about the frequent visitors, unique visitors, hot customers etc. The owners also have the extra boon that foursquare helps in promoting business via other social sites such as Twitter and others.

Foursquare enables the user to know about all hot venues in his location. He can search all advertisements given by the owners. Using this feature, the owners can attract a large number of visitors or tourists to his store though his store is not in hot spot. To know more about searching ads, click search engine advertising. Efficient usage of foursquare tips can help in improving business.

How to increase your Alexa Ranking

2010-11-11T03:19:00.000-08:00

Hi Everybody, Hope this article will also help for every designers. Because designing a site is to attract visitors. Below is some useful tips to increase the visitors.

Now day you will get so many sites that will say you that you can get money from the. But you have to be sure that you are doing the right thing. Otherwise this sites will take the password of your and then this can take all the money. In this time the Alexa ranking can be a good factor and can help you so much. If you get a site that has rank less than 100,000 then it will be considered somewhat well traveled. If it has less than 50,000 then it is popular, while lower than 10,000 and 1,000 ultra-visited and web-elite, respectively.

Then we can make an idea of it that is it is real or not. Thus it will make us a clear indication of what needs to do and how we can do it clearly. The SharePoint templates can also play an important and beautiful fact. The affordable Seo package will give you change to move it in the upper side and thus it will get much more traffics. If you have a blog site then you can make it more view able if you write some important content and if you post them regularly. If you post a writing now and post next article after 20 days then it will not make the rating high. So I am sure that you will not want to do that. Just try this so that this can improve the condition of your site in the affordable Seo package.

If you can use the system so that some people, I mean mainly the guest can make comment then the site will get much more priority to the people and it will make the ratings so much improved. This can make the share point templates & hosting templates to use a greater value that it can improve the ratings. Most of the time people want to know about the ratings increaser. So you can make a site that can tell about the ratings increaser. Then I am sure you will get much more supervisory in the affordable Seo package. I think if you still have some problems then you need to try hosting templates. I am telling this because I have personal experience and I am sure that you can also get the result that I have personally got. This can bring traffic in your site. So just have to follow the rules and then you can see that it will improve the Alexa ratings.

You can get better service through the system. In the present people want to use better things. So they are conscious about their useful things. For this reason you can use the system & get improved service. If any other person can use it for make the ratings improve & you are not using it, then he will get better service than you. So in the current times you have to use best things in your daily life. The system is a way to use best system at your website. So it is very essential in the present times.

Icons Vs Human Eyes

2010-11-11T00:00:00.000-08:00

Day to day internet surfing members are increasing numerously along with that the launching of new websites too.

However not all those websites earn good business, but only those sites which are designed with good colors and using the good image will add more value to the site.

While designing a website adding more text will definetly makes the site looks bad. Instead using proper icons at the most needed places will looks beautiful.

Human eyes attracts to pleasent colors always. So use good looking icons to design website and make heads to turn to your websites.

Happy Designing :)

Design your brochure or webpage with your own template

2010-11-10T22:55:00.000-08:00

Those who are looking for graphic design brochures can check this short summary. You will be come to know few techniques to design brochures with graphics. These techniques will help your webpage to attract people from around the world.
1. Check attention seeker design as this design ask the questions like “Are you depressed or in trouble?” and many others. The basic requirement to create this design is to discuss the issues and attract attention of visitors. This technique is so powerful and attracts lots of users day by day. This is the technique mostly used for brochures and into some awareness campaign programs.
2. Poster brochure is another technique for such task. This kind of graphic design derides the text in support of a compilation and stylish cover such as a brochure concerning kid's mistreatment might have extremely influential picture of kids being enforced to do job at road side. The image itself convincing as it must be sufficient for public to get the brochure. In this technique photographer should take the pictures according to situation.

These and many other techniques are available which increases the visitors on site like classic corporate, symbol brochures, mystery brochures and many others. Classic corporate design is the foundation of post public dealings and client dealings color flyers. You will get clean and crisp lines in this design and some simple colors. You can use such templates as sensible use for company symbol. Symbol brochure could help you which involve using one very unforgettable symbol at the top of color flyer. This could be stamped symbol of the company or it might be obscure image of the item that is on sale. Symbols or signs typically attract people's mind, and they easily recall, the things after sometime as well. For those who are having particular product can use such template for promotion of site and product.

The mystery brochure is another technique being used my many developers. This kind of design involves making flyers cover that makes public conjecture. Typically this design has few texts that attract public to read the details provided in brochure.

Many developers look for the templates for their created services like SharePoint templates, server templates and many others. If you are looking for similar kind of templates then you can take help of available websites. These website contain lots of templates which will save your time and provide you the required template of your choice. Many developers also allow making changes in templates so if you feel certain changes in SharePoint template then you can apply them through provided editable fields on sites.

The sites which are providing SharePoint templates are also giving various features to edit modify and manage the template according to usage and requirement. You can find health care templates, government templates, manufacturing templates, HR templates, sales templates and lots of other discussion templates. These all templates are available at center point and anybody can download them. However it’s better to plan the design and columns first if you are going to change the design of your existing site.

Free Icon - Google Competitors Analysis

2010-10-05T00:54:00.000-07:00

Online usage becomes more popular these days. Especially we all know that google becomes more popular and growing well among peoples.

Today I did analysed the no of competitors for the keyword " free icons". It seems amazing and the icon designing industry becomes more competitive.

Two different searches one without quote in http://www.google.com gives me the no of results as 85,400,000 and for the same I did with a quoted search which gives the no of result as 1,310,000

Inspite of this heavy competition in designing industry, any one must be so care full in choosing the right service provider.

As I mentioned earlier download their free sample icons and taste their design. If you are satisfied completely then you go on to give your order.

Buy Affordable 3d Vista and Xp Icons

2010-09-16T00:05:00.000-07:00

Take advantage of using these 3d icons. With the latest technology the making of 3d icons becomes very easy. There are lot of companies offering high quality 3d vista and icons.

The most attractive 3d icons came in different sizes and most of the providers sell those 3d icons for a cheap rate.

If need then we can also edit and modify these 3d icons. Everything before you buy these icons just download their free sample 3d icons. Once you feel happy browse their 3d icons collections and see how good those icons suites your requirements.

Suppose if you are not able to identify those icons of your wish just go for an custom 3d icons and be sure that you should get quote before you order any icons.

Insist them to create a custom icon as unique one with different style and do revise for any changes. So check out the professional 3d icon designer today and add more value to your work.

Download Free XP Icons Before Your Buy

2010-08-29T00:28:00.000-07:00

Lot of Icon selling companies are here in market today. So the customers we should be careful before going to any design company.

Browse online about the company and read the reviews. Once you find the reviews are good then opt to download their free sample icons from them and do check it.

If you find those sample icons are good then you can go to give your order. Suppose if you find the sample is not good then dont worry come back and look into some other company.

If the sample icon is good then ask for the rates for designing icon. Most of the companies will say they are the cheap in the market, but you should revise them.

Once the rate is with in your budget, ask how many times they will allow you to do revision for free and cost for the additional revisions.

Consider these things to shop icons. So for all this downloading the sample icons and checking the design is so important.

Favicon Generator - What is this ?

2010-06-25T22:27:00.000-07:00

Its important adding a look to your website and favicon adds it when your website loads in a browser.

The address bar carries this favicon and definitely this adds look to your website. Already we have discussed about favicon and its uses.

Now in this article we can discuss more about favicon generator. Its not a easy job to design a favicon for your website and it needs some good designer to do it. So for designing we much approach a good icon design company.

But if we have no enough budget to do that there is a way for you. Today there are lots and lots of websites which helps to do this favicon of your own at free of cost.
Yes! with this free websites you can do design the favicon as you wish.

with these websites, designing a favicon becomes easier and it ends online itself. One good example for designing this favicon is http://www.favicon.cc/ website.

You can generate favicon online using the website and its very easy which ends in few seconds or mins.

Kindly go through the website for more details , Click Here !

Top Icons Selling web Sites

2010-02-02T22:06:00.000-08:00

Here are the list of leading Icon Selling Websites. Have a look at those websites and buy Icons which suits for your need.

1. http://www.iconarchive.com/

Collection of 28,400+ high quality icons for Windows, Mac and Linux. Provided by 234 authors.
Fast and easy navigation.

2. http://www.freeiconsweb.com/

Free Icons Web Offers Over 18000 high quality Free Icon Download for Windows Xp and Vista,Macintosh and Linux Systems (Icons,Royalty Free Stock icons,free web icon,free xp icon,Free Icons,Free Icon,Icons Download)

3. http://iconfactory.com/home

World leaders in icon design, we offer thousands of free icons, custom design
services, software, royalty-free stock icons and much more.

4. http://www.iconspedia.com/

Download free png icons & Icon Packs | IconsPedia

5. http://www.iconbazaar.com/

A gallery of free clipart, graphics, images, webdings and webart for use in HTML development.

6. http://www.icongalore.com/

Icongalore.com offers professional XP style icons with flawless and highly appealing designs at extremely affordable rates. Icon packages include accounting icons, software icons, web application icons, network icons, database icons, navigational icons and email icons.

7. http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/

Looking for Royalty Free icons? Free Icon Download Offers Free Vista icons,Free Desktop Icons,Mac os x icons,Stock icons,Logos for software developers and Web Templates Design

8. http://www.iconbuffet.com/

IconBuffet | Free Icons, Stock Icons, Custom Icon Design

9. http://www.icons-land.com/

Icons-Land offers Vista style royalty-free stock icons and custom icon design service for software developers and website designers. These icons are suitable for software applications, mobile applications, handheld and pocket pc applications, iPhone applications, websites.

10. http://www.planeticons.com/

PlanetIcons.com delivers quality XP icons. At affordable prices get quality icons of Finance and Accounting Icons, Email Icons, Navigation Icons, Networking Database , Icons, Ecommerce Icons, Abstract Icons, Website Icons and even the complete package.

What is mean by Favicons?

2009-12-15T09:19:00.000-08:00

Favicon - which is the short form of Favorites Icons. These are small designs which is used in the URL bar of a browser and in the favorite menus.

These favicons are used only to attract visitors and to give website a small additional beauty.
Favicons are going to do nothing for webmasters if they think in SEO point of view.
Most of the webmasters use their logo to make this favicon. It resembles their logo. Using this will give visitors a cool look.

Favicons becomes more popular when started using Internet Explorer. It gives some extra look when the Address bar and the Favorites folder carries this icons. Later on all browsers like Mozila, Netscape and some browsers supports this according to their Interface.
In the forth coming post I will explain the uses and how we can design this favicons.

Website Icons - Where we can use these Icons?

2009-11-06T23:16:00.000-08:00

Is this a tought term for you to understand what is meant by "Website Icons". The term it self clearly explains the meaning.

Yes, as of my opinion these are the icons used in the website applications. It almost have the same functionalities like Application Icons.

These Icons will be understandable by all the people around the world, because they are designed for the univesal customers with the guideliness.

If we visit a website, we come across more and more Actions, If we explain all the actions with detailed description then we are not able to look a decent and professional website.

In this case icons plays a major role, to represent action in a simplified form.

Eg for Website Icons, using a Question Mark Symbol, "?" will represent two actions. "About US" or else "FAQ".

These are called Website Icons and in the coming post we can discuss more about Website Icons.

What Happen If we Use too many Elements while designing Single Icon?

2009-10-30T22:22:00.000-07:00

We are designing icons for the past few days to attract our site visitors with new Icon packages.

While designing one of my guy tried designing icon with more number of elements in it around 3.

Its the common mistake that most of us will do while designing icons. Icon are usually a small object to represent actions.

So Icons must be more professional with a simple look.

Usually by designing icons with 3-4 objects will cause problems.

If we are desiging it for Windows Vista then we can use the size they support. Usually the icon will look somewhat good if its bigger.

SO when size goes down to smaller then the Icon will not be upto the mark we expect. It will loose its quality and the icon visiblity will also be poor.

Finally, from my experience we should avoid using so many objects while designing a single Icon.... :)

Vista Style Icons from Icons-land.com

2009-05-11T08:37:00.000-07:00

The site Icons-Land has a very good collection of royalty-free icons, to cater to the needs of design professionals like software developers and website designers.

The site offers good navigation with a simple layout and has a huge collection of professional s oftware icons for you to choose from. These icons are suitable for a wide range of applications including PC software, mobile software, iPhone applications, websites, presentations etc. As the navigation of the site is based on a simple and intuitive design, you can easily find your favorite icon sets hassle free.

Vista Style Elements Icon Set - Preview

From the home page, you can get an overview of all the stock icons in the website with the details and pricing clearly shown.

Icons-Land currently hosts plenty of gorgeous and professional icon sets including Stock Icons, GIS/GPS/Map Icons, POI Icons, Sport Icons, Transport Icons, Vista icons, Hardware Icons, Multimedia Icons, Vector Icons, Emoticons & Avatars and more!

Newly released Vista Style GIS/GPS/MAP Icon Set - Preview

All these icons are provided in seven sizes from 16x16 to 256x256. You can also go for the custom icon design offered at the site to get your icons specially designed for your software project.

Overall, the site is a great resource for anyone looking for quality and cost effective icons for their software or web designing project.

High Quality Ready Made Icons

2009-04-16T21:47:00.000-07:00

Icons in computer terminology are pictorial representations of objects. They provide aesthetical visual identity to programs. The purpose of icons is to convey instant meanings to the users. Apart from instant meanings and aesthetics, icons provide a great user experience. Clicking or double clicking icons on your computer will enable you to access the functionality behind it.

It is possible to create you own icons using the guides available in the internet. However, icon creation process requires a combination of various skills and could be tedious even for experts. It is wise to utilize the competition among icon creators and acquired high quality readymade icons at the fraction of a cost involved in creating a new one.

When it comes to the quality of icons, there are a number of things to be noticed. Every icon in display may look alike in layman’s view, but there is a vast difference that could be noted if you have an eye for detail. For example, keen observation in the following areas will reveal the quality of the icon: style, sizes, colors, file types, shades, depth, lighting and many more.

Image source : http://www.filebuzz.com/software_screenshot/full/30391-toolbar_icon_set.jpg

If you have some prior knowledge of icons, you can certainly differentiate quality icons from the cheap ones. However, it becomes unnecessary when you choose icon providers who have established themselves in the field and have a great name.

Remember with so many competitors in the field, high quality icons designed by professionals are today available at extremely low prices. Do visit a good number of icon vendors in the internet and compare quality and price before you decide to purchase icons.

What are desk top icons?

2009-03-22T21:22:00.000-07:00

Icons as we know are symbolic representation of objects. They represent programs, files, directories, devices, and about anything related to computers. Desktop icons are those found on your startup screen of your computer. Some of them can even be shortcuts to websites in the internet. For instance if you are using windows as you operating system, you will find a few icons on your screen.

These are common icons that come along with the operating systems. It is possible to replace those icons with better looking icons that can provide you with a rich user experience. You can find various websites in the internet offering high quality desktop icons at low prices. Some of them even offer them for free.

Desktop icons are not only meant to be associated with programs or files within your system they can also be a shortcut to websites. These types of desktop icons are called head sprout icons. As these icons have programs that can automatically log in to your accounts upon proper settings, they can save you quiet a bit of time required for logging into frequently used websites.

You can have a look at the sample icons (From:http://www.freeiconsdownload.com)

Either you wish to buy or wish to download readymade desktop icons, do watch out for the quality of icons. The quality of icons can have its effects on user experience. It is a good idea to learn how to judge the quality of icons before you
start using pre-made icons available in the internet.

There are a number of icon websites that provide detailed information about the quality of icons. Do compare quality and pricing while you are on the look out for alluring desktop icons.

Uses of commonly used website icons

2009-03-17T22:03:00.000-07:00

Its a long gap for me to come up with articles for you. I did started with this new title as "uses of Website Icons"

While icons play a significant role in accessing relevant programs within your system, they also can play a highly significant role in websites. Websites require icons for various purposes. For example relevant icons can be the best guide for your web visitors to navigate and explore your website. The term, website icons, is certainly a very broad one and it can be classified into many smaller divisions according to their purpose.

Samples of Website Icons:

Image Source: http://www.freeiconsweb.com/

For example those icons that facilitate the easy navigation of your website can be termed as navigational icons. There are industry specific website icons that are very attractive to visitors. For example, a website representing a hotel industry can have different icons representing reception, restaurant, room service, laundry, catering services, and the like with great looking website icons designed for hotel industry.

Availability of Website Icons:

Like wise there are website icons available for wide range of industries including software icons, eCommerce icons, real estates icons, networking icons, sports icons, entertainment icons, and many more that can make the website an eye candy to the web visitor. Wise selection of high quality website icons can increase your website traffic as well as retain the visitors for a longer time inducing them to explore your website for exciting information behind these enticing icons.

Website icons are available in packs industry wise. It is also possible to obtain select icons for you purpose or even order custom icons specific to your area of expertise. Use website icons to stand out of the crowd and make good business.

Computer and Icons

2008-03-27T06:14:00.000-07:00

This is my first blog. I have started this blog to share things about Icons.

Due to my in the designing field I was here with you to speak about Icons.
I had some experience in designing icons and we can call it in different name as their uses.
Most of us will name these small images as icons, icon, xp icons, xp style icons, buddy icons,
desktop icons, funny icons , and so on.....

This is especially due to the use of these icons and their design. So we are calling it as funny icons , desktop icons and so on...

Ok.... I thought this is my starting of my blog post and in the feature my blog will help you to guide you to know more and more about the graphic image ie icons and their uses....

Thank you and I will meet you in the next post... Thanks for taking time to read my page....