Through Genbeta I found out about this great favicon searcher. It allows you to download in different file types the favicon of a certain webpage, you just need to enter the URL and choose which file format you want it to be in. Then you can download if in all the available sizes. It’s very useful in order to get icons for RSS, Social Bookmarks, and save any icon you like without having to search through a lot of code 
Iconshock has released its new Affiliate Program, which functions through our community site. By just being part of our community you’re automatically listed as one of our affiliates, giving you the change to earn 30% of each sale your links generate.
You can create the links through our Link Generator and our new Catalog generator, is you think they don’t fit the style on your website just let us know and we’ll customize them for you
You can check all the information related to this subject in our affiliates section. If you still have any doubt just let me know or contact us.
This set includes “Attach Folder”, “Back”, “Digg”, “Feed Plus”, and “Single Paper”. This set comes in ICO, PNG and ICNS as usual.
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Carla Nazareth is an incredible designer and illustrator with a knack for infantile pastel colours and playful shapes. Her talent is really incredible, and the icon loving community has to feel lucky she decided to pour her creativity on this fantastic icon set. Comes in ICNS.
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| Click on image to download these cute icons. |
Cameron Chapman made this awesome article for Webdesigner Depot explaining us a fairly clear flow of how to find anything on the web. This is the first time in human history than anybody, regardless of age, social status or gender, can access the entire vault of information of the world. Or almost. Internet brings everything at your fingertips and its just a matter of knowing how to dig in the dirt. This article gives you a clue.
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| Click on image to learn how to properly find information in the internet. |
Displaying a different header on each page view is becoming a popular trend in web design these days, and is also a very efficient way to show different content with less clicks by the user. Brian Cray posted this very simple way to introduce this function into your web page.
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| Click on image to view how simple can you get with jquery. |
Check out this legal aberration committed by mayor newspaper “The Independent” against photographer Peter Zabulis. In conclusion, “The Independent” is kind of saying that they have an open permission to post whatever image is on Flickr regardless of the holder’s copyrights. Hmm, interesting approach on intellectual property.
If you are a blogger, please help spread the word. This cannot continue happening. Today it was Peter. Tomorrow it could be you.
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| Click on image to read the complete history, including the mails exchanged between Peter and “The Independent” |
Although in most of the cases Home pages are not the most popular landing page on a website, they still are the most common visited link when you want to know what a site is about.
Steven Bradley made this article for Vanseodesign where he signals out key factors and tips to help you design an effective home page.
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| Click on the image if you want to know how to design an effective homepage. |
Brujo Owoh made this post for blog giant Six Revisions where he discusses five points you have to keep an alert eye on when designing your website. Usability is key in the net era, and with so many information laying around, you have to give users a way to easily interact with it. I love the introduction to this post. Pretty thoughtful.
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| Click on image to read how to improve the usability on your site. |
The term known as “white space” refers not to the elements of that particular color in your designs, but rather to the areas with no information, left blank because of aesthetic and conceptual purposes, like give emphasis to other elements or un clutter the overall feel of the design. White space has many uses and examples, and renowned Australian designer Josh from “Tripping Words” left his thoughts about it in this quick article for Inspired Magazine.
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| Click on image to fill that white space. |
HTML 5 has introduced “Canvas” which allows several visual improvements like drawing and physics through javascript.
Jamie Newman wrote for the Think Vitamin blog this step by step article showing us how to use all these incredibly easy to integrate improvements .
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| Click on image to know something more about HTML 5 Canvas. |
If you are an upcoming designer, you have to acknowledge that the single most important thing you have do to if you want to ever get hired is to get your portfolio up and running. “Wordpress Arena” made this list so you can use it as a reference and get inspired to do your own online portfolio.
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| Click on image to get inspired. |
Mushroom Digital is a fairly well known web design company. One of its founders, Jaime Jones, wrote this article for Woorkup giving us some insight on their creative process. This quick peek can be a useful reference for those interested in creating their own brand.
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| Click on image to see how they did the “Mushroom Digital” logo. |
Dear readers, you wont believe your eyes! Tobi clothing store has adopted an augmented reality application that let’s you “wear” virtually the clothes you like before you buy. You can even share your look with your facebook friends so they can give you feedback. I know all Iconshock girls will love this. I just can help wondering what will we see in 5 years.
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