Farm-Fresh Web Icons from Fatcow

As part of its marketing strategy, FatCow Web Hosting has made available a set of 16 and 32 pixel icons. The icons are free of charge available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
 

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Post-It Notes on Your Joomla Site

Note-its, developed by N-System, is a great extension to make your site special. We tested it in Explorer 8, Firefox and Chrome. It works out of the box. No conflicts with other extensions, easy to install and to implement. The developer has added more color pins.

It is an excellent module. In our review in the JED, we give it five stars because it is innovative, builds upon the great work by an original developer and we really like the concept. You can now also include Urls in the note.

Optimize Your Joomla Web Presence with Icons From the Crystal Project

Although the quote below from the developer may sound a bit spiritual, the results are concrete. The quality of the icons is outstanding and they are published under the GNU General Public License, hence our decision to use them on our websites.

Crystal is a human-computer interface design project focused on the user. It contains the human being, his ambiguities, feelings, perceptions, cultural and social backgrounds and everything else that can be called “human” as a measure and efforts.

Everaldo

The project has developed various sets of icons (see below) in different sizes that can be downloaded conveniently in one zip file.  Instead of inserting one picture at a time in this article, we use Phocagallery to display the icons (Simple Image Gallery does not show PNG files).

Before downloading them from our site one by one, please obtain the zip files here: http://everaldo.com

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Inkscape: The Ultimate Open Source SVG Editor

Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the popular Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. The SVG format is often used for open source clipart.

The program supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. For advanced users, it is capable of editing nodes, performing complex path operations, tracing bitmaps and much more.

What is Vector Graphics?

In contrast to raster (bitmap) graphics editors such as Photoshop or Gimp, Inkscape stores its graphics in a vector format. Vector graphics is a resolution-independent description of the actual shapes and objects that you see in the image. A rasterization engine uses this information to determine how to plot each line and curve at any resolution or zoom level. Contrast that to bitmap (raster) graphics which is always bound to a specific resolution and stores an image as a grid of pixels.

Vector graphics are a complement, rather than an alternative, to bitmap graphics. Each has its own purpose and are useful for different kinds of things. Raster graphics tend to be better for photographs and some kinds of artistic drawings, whereas vectors are more suitable for design compositions, logos, images with text, technical illustrations, etc.

Inkscape can import and display bitmap images, too. An imported bitmap becomes yet another object in your vector graphics, and you can do with it everything you can do to other kinds of objects (move, transform, clip, etc.).

Source: http://wiki.inkscape.org

The developers of Inkscape are also the founders of the openclipart project, an interesting SVG repository you can use for your Joomla website. More information on the project is available here. For high quality icons, please click here.

Open Source Clipart and Logo Resources for Joomla Websites

If you are looking for a logo for the front page or clipart for your website, you want to check out the openclipart project. This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used.

There are no limitations on usage. All graphics that have been submitted by the artists are placed into the Public Domain.

The project collects the public-domain clipart in a single large download and browsable html pages. The clipart is stored in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, often with thumbnails in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. 

You can download the +12,000 pictures here. The project started in early 2004 by the developers of Inkscape - you can find more information about Inkscape here.

You may also want to check out the Wikimedia Commons media file repository that makes available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips).

Launched on 7 September 2004, Wikimedia Commons hit the 1,000,000 uploaded media file milestone on 30 November 2006 and currently contains over 5,582,526 files and 93,622 media collections.