Netallianz Web Design

To make a website look nice, one of our favourite approach is to maintain a simple and minimalist style while using lines, shades and icons to give it some graphic impact.

Look at Blogger.com for example.

No we did not design this website unfortunately :) It was actually done by Douglas Bowman and his team at StopDesign - notice how graphical icons can be used to give impact to the design?

Now try to imagine the website with just pure text… not quite the same is it?

If you are familiar with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, you could spend a little time and create such beautiful icon graphics. 

But if you are not so familiar or want to take the short cut way (like we sometimes do hehe)  …. so how do you go about finding beautiful free icons to download?

Check out http://www.iconfinder.net

This is quite an amazing collection of first class icons which you can download for free! Just do a search (eg telephone icons) and the engine will return some beautiful icons for you.

The search tool is suggestive… try searching for “arrow” for example and it will suggest arrow button, arrowback, arrowforward etc.

Quite brilliant indeed.

Now please observe their licensing rules. Most icons are usable subject to Creative Commons and GPL licensing terms.

Have Fun