If you have a website of your own, the best way to promote it would be through social networking, and for that, you’ll need social media icons. Well, this set is huge, and I mean it, it’s huge and it has all sorts of icons, so think that creators of this set covered most of the social networks that are available out there. Anyhow, this set has about 80 different vector social media icons, and all of these icons are designed in 16px, 24px, 32px and they come in two different formats such as PNG and EPS.

Therefore, if you’re a web designer, these icons are those free web design resources that you mustn’t miss.

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Today I have another highly used resource that you’ll sure use in your designs someday. Since it’s hard to create fire and smoke effect I decided to share some smoke and fire pictures that I found a few day ago. Creator of these elements didn’t’ set his computer or anything else on fire in order to take these. Instead, the author created these in 3D Studio Max thanks to the special plugins. There are all sorts of pictures inside, both in .jpeg and .png file format, and most of those pictures are 2000×2000 pixels.

As for the pictures, there are more than 60 smoke and fire pictures inside, and you’ll find all sorts of fires, explosions, and smoke to warm up your designs in these cold winter days.

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As you’ve probably guessed it, today I have set of Grungy Social Media Icons, so let’s have a closer look at them. This set includes nine grungy icons, and as you can see, all of them look amazing. Available icons include Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, and Delicious. Each icon is in .png file format and all icons are in 256×256 resolution.

This set is absolutely amazing, and it’s free for personal and commercial use so make sure that you get is as soon as possible.

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Like I said, it’s all about social networking, and all the time we hear Twitter this, Twitter that, Facebook this and Facebook that, so it’s more than obvious that social networks take a huge part of our lives. This is one of the mains reasons why you should always promote your site on social networking sites, or at least have a profile on those.They are one of the best ways to expand your audience, so social icons are a must when you’re designing your future website. With such focus on social networks, social icons have become a one free web design resource that you must have, and luckily for you, today’s set includes some of the nicest social icons that you have seen. This set includes five different icons in several colors, and all of these icons are created by Adobe Illustrator CS3 and they are saved in .ai and .eps file format.

They are simple and they look great, and if you’re designing a new website, you’ll definitely need a set of social icons, so make sure that you get these while they are hot.

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This is quite big set of icons for all web developers and designers and it comes with 154 free icons. The creators of this set have done an amazing job so I’m positive that you’ll use these icons in your web designs and applications. As for the icons, they are all black and white, which can be a flaw, since I’m more into colored stuff, but despite that tiny flaw, they are simply amazing. This set includes a huge variety of icons and it has navigation buttons, all sorts of computer and gaming symbols, shopping symbols, and even Facebook and Twitter buttons. As I said, they are perfect if you want to create an Andoid OS or iOS application, so they are perfect for you if you’re into web or app development.

Anyhow, all icons in this set are 48x48px and they come in PNG, AI, and PSD file formats so make sure that you don’t miss them.

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Sure, we all love free web design resources such as menus and buttons, but who wants to code them? Coding can sometime be tedious, especially if you’re trying to make dynamic buttons, and despite being tedious, coding can take a lot of your time. Luckily, there are some good folks out there such as goldhand88 and they design and code buttons for you, so you can use them right away. All that you have to do is to copy these buttons into your website directory and copy their HTML code into their website and you’re good to go. It’s simple and it’s fast, but since they don’t come in a PSD file you won’t be able to edit them and change their design as you like. Anyhow, this set contains five buttons that are coded in HTML and CSS, so you can just download them and paste them into your designs.

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As you know, simple and plain menus are not that interesting, if they aren’t amazingly designed, so why should you be stuck with a plain old static menu? Drop down menus are great, they are attractive, they are dynamic and best of all, they are free, well in this case at least. You can design your own menu, and that’s not that hard, but there’s no need to design a beautiful dropdown menu when you can download it for free. That’s right, today we have a sweet Simple Dark Navigation Menu that you can use in your designs, and best of all is the fact that this menu is fully editable. This menu comes in PSD file and you can edit it in any way you like, as long as you follow the author’s rules.

As for this menu, it’s simple and it looks great, and since it fully editable it will be great web design resource for all web designers that know how to code a drop down menu.

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Designing isn’t hard as you think, and only way for you to enhance your designing skills is to practice in Photoshop as much as you can. Great way to learn all this is by following step by step tutorials because they learn you the fundamentals of web design and Photoshop, and after you’ve completed two hundred tutorials, you should know almost all Photoshop tricks related to web design. Today, through simple 19 steps you’ll learn how to design a simple, yet effective web layout. Trust me, your layout won’t look that impressive, but you’ll realize some of the important techniques that are used in process of designing webpages, and after several tutorials you’ll get the idea how designing of web layouts works in Photoshop. Therefore, if you have Photoshop installed, start it, and check out this tutorial bellow.

Design Colorful Web Layout In Photoshop Tutorial

In order to reduce the size of your images, you should change the file format as well as the resolution, and there are many tools that can help you with that. Adobe Photoshop is without a doubt, the best tool for that, and it is being used by many designers, but as you know, Photoshop isn’t cheap, so you might want to find a different solution in order to optimize your web graphics. There are many solutions that can help you with optimization such as free software and free online services. Thanks to these solutions you’ll be able to optimize your graphics for web, cheap and with ese. The following article shows you 15 great solutions that will come cheap and that will surely come in handy, if don’t use any other tool for optimization of your graphics.

Personally, Photoshop is the best solution, but if you cannot afford it, check out some of these tools.

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