More and more people like and user Twitter and therefore many siteowners want to place a follow-link on their website. But as simple text links are too uninteresting, we have collected the best icons and graphics on the internet.
Twitter icon set by smashing magazine
Twitter social icon by design reviver
31 twitter icons by vincentabry
A little bird told me by mattknow
Cute twitter bird icon by wefunction
Free twitter graphics by randa clay design
Twitter birdy icon by Loondesign
Adobe Illustrator has become one of the leading products for vector design, especially icon design. But when you start to create your first icon, you have to keep one thing in mind – bitmap or vector? (As the guys of firewheeldesign point out, vector icons are less work than those made with Photoshop. On the other hand, scaled vector graphics don’t look very nice in comparison to icons created with Photoshop) All in all it’s a decison between saving time and getting the best possible quality.
To understand the basics of icon design, read the following articles:
7 Principles of Effective Icon Design by PSDTUTS
10 Mistakes in Icon Design by Turbomilk
Now that you are a bit familar with Icon design – try these tutorials:
Vectortuts.com
Create a Detailed Camera with Photo Icon
Create a Vector Film Slate Icon
You waste your server resources for web applications? Why don’t accept the help of Google. Just a few days ago Google launched its Google App Engine. Being still in beta it allows you to upload your web application on the Google network and use their computational power. With a free account you are already able to use 500MB space, a CPU usage of 200,000,000 megacycles and a maximum of 10GB bandwidth per day. Also you get several other features:
Great – Where do I have to sign in?
Google App Engine is still in beta. There were 10,000 beta accounts available but after ca. 3 hours they were all gone. Google already announced that more accounts will follow in the near future. So don’t hesitate to subscribe to the waitlist.
Do you want a special RSS icon for your website? Actually most blogs and newssites have RSS feeds. But many have just a standard button. You might want to show that your are more creative then they are. Use one of these free and fresh RSS icons so that you are in contrast of the masses.
RSS icon set from smashingmagazine
Alternative RSS icon by mouserunner
Yesterday WordPress 2.5 has been released with a couple of new features. Those who want to upgrade WordPress now, can do it here.
The popular blogging platform needed six months for this major upgrade. But what changes with the new version? The most important update regards the all-new dashboard. It isn’t a static site anymore but consists of several customizable widgets and only provides you with the most important links. Therefore it is very easy to fit the dashboard according to your needs.
The developers of Wordpress spend this version a completely new and fresh color scheme, changed the menu order and recoded the media gallery. Now it is possible to easily upload and manage images as well as videos and other files. Further remarkable new features are editing protection for multi-admin blogs and an built-in plugin update function. The whole list of changes can be read at the WordPress Blog. All in all WordPress 2.5 is a recommendable update, I am sure everyone will love.
