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Free icons and vectors for download

Icons is something that can spruce up the look of your website, but they can be really hard to draw. Luckily, there are sites who specialize in serving up 100’s of beautiful and colorful icons, and let you download them for free. Here is a list.

  • Favicon is a little different from the rest of the sites on this list, because they let you design socalled favicons. A favicon is the icon you see next to the URL, when you type in the web-adress. A neat site, with a free service.
  • Icones is a searchengibe that specialises in finding icons on other sites. Works pretty much like Google, but for icons.
  • Iconfinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way. You can search thousands of icons from outside websites. Loads really fast, and is very intuitive.
  • Iconpot is another collection of icons. All are freely downloadable, according to the site.
  • All Free vectors is an index of free vector files available on the World Wide Web. They link to free and public domain vector files, and allow people to upload their own vector files for free download.
  • Vista Icons is a very professionol looking site with thousands of great looking icons. Some restrictions apply to the icons, but you will find lots and lots of icons avalable for download for personal and even commercial use.

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Create and store your own free graphics with online editors.

There are some really nice sites out there, where you can create your own graphics, images etc., without paying a dime. They will let you edit and store them on the site. Using online editors from some of these sites, you can create really great looking images, even if you have no experience with working with images. Some of these sites are really amazing, and offer some pretty unique tools.

  • Apollo seems to be a way to work together on images, diagrams etc. Would probably be good for someone who works with graphics, and needs a client to comment on the artwork. The client cannot save the image, only comment on it, thus keeping your artwork safe. Looks free.
  • Brands of The World is a big library of brand logos in scalable vector format. You can search by country, company etc. BotW is also a great place for designers to upload their logo designs and professional details to get exposure, recognition and clients.
  • Gliffy is online diagram software, you can create professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more. Use tTheir online diagram editor to create various drawings. Gliffy is an online application that makes it easy for you to create, share, and collaborate with diagrams. There is a free version, or a USD 5 per month version.
  • GR Sites is a very nice online tool for making graphics for your website. Make buttons, boxes, backgrounds and lots of other nice stuff using the editor. You can use the free version that has certain restrictions, or pay a mothly or yearly fee (USD 9 and 5.75 respectively, or make use of the daypass that can be activated at any time. Definitely a good site if you want to creat nice graphics, and store them, without prior knowledge of graphics editing.
  • Live Banner Maker lets you create your own website banner for free. Use their templates, or start from scratch. They don’t brand your banner.You just selct the size, the colors, the text and effects, save it, and upload to your server. Can be used to create basic or intermediate banners.

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Colormixers and colors

  • Colorblender is a free online tool for color matching and palette design. Blends can be saved for future use, and will be available whenever you return to the site from the same workstation.
  • Adobe Kuler lets you browse thousands of color themes created by the Kuler community. Search by tag word, title, creator, or hex color. Create themes with the tools in Kuler. Use the color wheel, etc. Create themes from an image. Free.
  • 4096 Color Wheel is a color wheel that can quickly help you find good colors for your website. Easy to work with. Free
  • Color Scheme Designer is a good-looking site that can help you find the right colors for your website. Easy to wotk with, helpful, and free.
  • ColorCop is a multi-purpose downloadable color picker for web designers and programmers. It features an eyedropper, magnifier and other helpful stuff. Move your mouse over a color, and the program will tell you the color. Color Cop will convert RGB decimal values to Hexadecimal color codes.

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