Blogging Vista-style

Designing skins for blogs or forums is not an easy task. While demanding HTML and CSS coding experience, the job also demands artistic skills and a good deal of taste. A lot of novice and experienced designers get stuck reusing the same graphics for common navigation elements over and over. While CSS and HTML can be worked on at the same time, creating attractive graphics demands a different approach and a different set of skills.


Navigation, commenting and other graphics on a blog or forum consist of several dozen small images. Each image has to be made in the same style, while all icons should share the same gamma and colors to create a consistent look throughout the Web site. If the skin being developed is a Vista-style one, you're facing a challenge of using a quite specific set of drawing techniques. If you don't have the time or skills to create icons yourself, hiring a designer or outsourcing may be a costly yet necessary option.

With recent introduction of stock icons there is no longer need hiring a graphics designer or outsourcing icons. There are single icons and icon sets available for pretty much everything from city planning to cars. There are icons for bloggers, too.

Blog Icons for Vista help Web designers make blog and forum skins faster and better. Matching the famous Vista style, these icons are perfect for adding bells-and-whistles to any blog or forum engine. Blog Icons for Vista set has every image used on blogs and forums for navigation, posting and editing.

The icons are drawn in the Glowing Glass style, and are available in a variety of sizes from tiny 16x16 to huge 256x256 pixels. Blog Icons for Vista comes in ICO, PNG, GIF, BMP file formats, and includes 256-color and True Color variants for widest compatibility. The set includes over 40 icons, plenty to choose from. Mail, Globe, Folder, Back and Forward, Previous, XML, Edit, Permalink, Submit, and many more useful images are available. Being a readily available set, Blog Icons for Vista are available for instant preview at 777icons.com, and can be had in a matter of minutes instead of days, weeks or months of designing a custom image set.

By: Dmitry Costenco

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Since SibCode's founding in 2005 and as of 2008, Dmitry Costenco develops web sites. He works for quality web interface, which will help to web surfers.

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