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Website Planning Tips: What to Do Before You Build

Planning

Building a good website means having a game plan in place for your content, images, layout, and general user experience.

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How to Get Your Website Ready for the New Year

Joomla

January 1st is quickly approaching, and your website is due for some regular maintenance so it can keep serving you well through the new year. What are some of the things you need to do to get ready for the new year?

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200 Free Vector Icons from Vector Open Stock and RocketTheme

Vector Open Stock

RocketTheme has teamed up with Vector Open Stock to create an exclusive free icon set that you can use on your next project.

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Five Ways to Make Your Site More Mobile Friendly

Business Website Elements

Today's Web is explored through a variety of screens ranging from small smartphones to giant big-screen televisions. Designing your site to work consistently across various screen sizes makes it a more pleasant experience for all visitors, regardless of the device they use to access it.

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Free Mega Vector Pack: Human Pictograms

Freepik

RocketTheme has teamed up with Freepik to bring you an incredibly cool set of free vector images featuring human pictograms you can use on your future projects. This set is absolutely free, and can be used commercially.

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How to Find Quality Images for Your Site

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A website without images can be pretty bland, but where do you find images that you can use legally? Stories about sites caught in costly litigation over copyright violations can be found all over the news, and avoiding this type of situation is paramount to maintaining a good, reputable site.

So, where do you find these images? How can you make sure that you're using photos that aren't being claimed by someone that doesn't want their image readily shared with the world?

In this article, we'll go over some considerations, as well as some of our favorite image sources.

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Image Optimization Solutions

One of the best ways to improve the performance of a sluggish websites comes in the form of image optimization. As sites become increasingly visual, it’s easy to get carried away and add significant amounts of data to each page load. This can quickly bog down your server, increase load times for visitors, and do a number on your bandwidth bill.

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One simple and easy solution to this problem is to run your site’s images through an image optimizer. By reducing the file size without significantly impacting an image’s visual appeal, you can achieve faster page load times and lower per-visitor bandwidth usage which will make you and your visitors very happy.

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Free Christmas Icon Pack 1

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We are proud to release this latest set of free seasonal icons. This Christmas set by RocketTheme is free for use with personal and commercial projects with attribution and released under the Creative Commons 3.0 license. We have worked with our friends at Smashing Magazine to create and release this icon set containing ten icons available as 256×256px PNGs that have been lovingly prepared for Smashing Magazine and the Web design community.

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Free Halloween Icon Pack 1

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We hope you enjoy this new free mini-pack of halloween icons. This spooky set by RocketTheme is free for use with personal and commercial projects with attribution and released under the Creative Commons 3.0 license. These highly-detailed icons come in 5 sizes, each hand-edited to ensure details are size-appropriate and each pixel is perfectly placed. Each icon comes in 48x48, 64x64, 128x128, 256x256, and 300x300 pixels in transparent PNG format.

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Free Web Icon Pack 1

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We are proud to release a new free icon pack. This Web-centric set by RocketTheme is free for use with personal and commercial projects with attribution and released under the Creative Commons 3.0 license. These highly-detailed icons come in 6 standard sizes, each hand-edited to ensure the utmost quality for each size. Each icon comes in 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64, 128x128, and 256x256 pixels in transparent PNG format.

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