Icons – “We’ve come a long way, baby.” Just consider how far icons have come since Xerox first developed theirs

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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. The annual commemoration held on February 14 is celebrated across the globe as the day of love and finding that special someone. To us, every reader is our special one. Instead of giving you roses and chocolates, we are offering you 40 beautiful and high quality free Valentine icon sets!

In this showcase, we’ve rounded up many colorful heart and love shaped icons, hand-drawn winged Cupid, gifts, flowers and other Valentine related icons for you to download. We here at Quertime would like to wish all of you a Happy Valentine’s Day! Read more…

Christmas is just around the corner, we at Quertime want to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Along with our wishes, we would like to be your early Santa Claus by giving away more than 40 amazingly beautiful Christmas icon sets. They are all free for download and you can use them in your site, social media profiles and general designs.

If you are in the mist of designing your last minute Christmas themed website or newsletter, adding these festive icons will definitely make your design looks brilliant while bringing Xmas cheer to your visitors. We hope you like these cute icons, and once again, Merry Christmas! Read more…

First of all, we have to admit that there are lots of free icon sets available on the web for you to download. Simply search “free icons” through Google Images, you will be returned with more than 100 millions of results. Nobody would have time to go through them one by one. However, choosing beautiful and eye catching icons are very important to the success of your website or blog. So please don’t show any lousy web icons on your site as this will give a bad impression to your visitors. To help your site looks better, we’ve again crawled deep into the Internet and collect 60 really beautiful and high quality free icon sets for you to choose. Trust us, you won’t be disappointed with our collection. Enjoy!

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With the rising of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Google+, social media integration is a must have feature for every website and blog. If you happen to be a web developer or blogger, you should put more efforts and attentions on this feature as it plays an important role for the success of your site. One of the ways to get your visitor’s attention is having some nice social media icons to ensure that they can be easily recognized. In this post, we are going to showcase a huge collection of beautiful, unique and eye-catching social media icons. We believe you will get a right one for your website for sure. Enjoy!

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Choosing a beautiful and creative RSS feed icon for website or blog is important to attract your visitors’ attention in order to subscribe to your RSS feed. If you feel that your RSS icon is too common, it’s probably time to change. Simply have a look the showcase of free RSS icons below and use one of the cool RSS icons to make your feed subscription more appealing.

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What is Favicon.ico? A favicon (short for “favorites icon”), also known as shortcut icon, bookmark icon, website icon or URL icon is a small image appears next to a website’s URL in the address bar of a web browser. It also shows up in the Favourites or Bookmarks menu, on the tabs in tabbed browsers, and as the icon for internet shortcuts on your desktop. It is a good way to brand your site and help your visitors to visually identify your site in their Bookmarks menu. This little icon is typically a graphic 16 x 16 or 32 x 32 pixels square and is saved as favicon.ico in the root directory of your server.

Below you will find a step by step guide to create a favicon. Read more…