As we are always looking for ways to show our appreciation to our readers, and provide you all with exciting and useful web design and development related resources we have a special treat that hits both of those marks. Today we have a brand new exclusive freebie for Noupe and all fans of fresh and sharply designed social media icons. From the creative mind of one of our regular Illustrator experts, Jasmina Stanojevic, comes this handy new set of vector designs.

So feast your eyes on this new exclusive freebie that can add some flair and style to your web design projects, and be sure to download it for your arsenal of resources. We hope that you will all enjoy and get some use out of these awesome icons!

The Icons

This social media icon set was created in Illustrator CS5 and contains 25 scalable vectors complete with semi-transparent shadows for use on various types of backgrounds. The download contains a .zip file with the original .ai file and an .eps version as well. Icons are available for use in personal and commercial projects.

Download

Designer Bio

Jasmina is a self taught vector illustrator from Serbia who has been working as a freelance designer for over five years now. Her biggest passion is in vector illustrations and motion graphic design. In her spare time she likes to read comic books and playing Call of Duty 2. You can check out her portfolio for more and also follow her on Twitter.

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Social media icons are integrated into every major website design today. They are frequently displayed prominently in sidebars and headers in order to promote such things as RSS feeds, Facebook fan pages and Twitter profiles. They are cropping up all over, creating a near endless demand for these resources.

Whilst you can link to your social media accounts with basic text links, it is far more common to use a social media icon that stands out and grabs the attention of visitors. Today we will be showing you 50 social media icon sets that you can download for free and use on your website to promote your social media profiles.

The Icon Goodies

1. Splatter Social Media Icons

2. Free Social Media Bookmarking Icon Set

3. Cheers: A Free “Social” Icon Set

4. Heart: A Free Social Icon Set

5. Free social media icon set

6. OLED social icons

7. Free Google Plus Icon Vector

8. Free Google Plus Icons Set

9. Social Media Sleek Icons: Icon Pack

10. Vintage Icon Set For Bloggers

11. Google + Circular Icon Set (PSD + PNG)

12. 81 Pixel perfect Social Media Icons

13. Ultimate Social Network Icon Pack (45 Icon Sets)

14. [Freebie] Social Truck Icon Set

15. Page Peel – A Free Social Media Iconset

16. Exclusive Scribble Social Media Icon Set and Tutorial

17. ElegantThemes Free Social Media Icon Set

18. Vector Social Media Icons

19. Neon Social Media Buttons

20. Social media icons

21. Free Sweet Candy Social Icon Pack

22. Ball social icons

23. Handycons 2 – another free hand drawn icon set (also see HandyIcons 1)

24. SocialClean- Free Social Network Icons

25. Social Media Icon Pack

26. Sea Sand Beach Social Icons Pack for Vacation

27. Icon set: Free glossy social icons

28. Starry SIite! New 16 Social Media Icons + PSD!

29. Social Media Stars Icon Set

30. Circle Social Media Icons

31. Glossy Aqua Style Social Media Icon Pack

32. Old Bottle Crowns Icon Set

33. SocialMate: 28 Free Social Media Icons (Includes PSDs)

34. Free Set of Social Media Icons – Large Icons Social

35. Isometrica (Volume 1): A Free Social Media Icon Set

36. Free Icon Pack: Vector 3D Social Icons

37. Social Media Icons Pack in 3 Sizes for Download

38. 27 Circular Social Media Icons in 3 Sizes

39. Social Media Icons

40. Web Social Media Button

41. Socializic

42. Social Media Bubbles: Icon Pack

43. Social Media Bubblicons: Icon Pack

44. Social 3D Icons

45. Somicro: 27 Social Media Icons

46. Free Stamp Social Network Icon Set

47. Simple Social Icons PSD

48. “Buddycons” – Vector Social Media Icons

49. 28 Social Media Icon Badges

50. Simplito: A free social icon set

We hope you have enjoyed this free collection of free social media icon sets new and old. What are some of your favorite free social media icon sets to use in your web design projects? Let us know in the comments below!

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A beautiful and elegant icon set is an asset to any good web design. Creative use of an icon set can help make or break the overall look of the design. Freebie design components, especially beautiful icon sets can be found in nearly every designer’s toolbox, or if not already among their tools, then certainly on their wishlists. Which is what brings us here today…adding to that tool kit!

In this post, we are presenting an awe-inspiring collection of 50 magnificently designed, free and professional high-quality icon sets. All of the icon sets featured are free. Nevertheless, please be sure to read the license agreements carefully before using all icons since this can change from time to time. Enjoy!

Free and High-Quality Icon Sets

Symbolicons: Transportation
A free set of stylish transportation icons from the full Symbolicons set.

Multimedia Icon Set
The set is called the ‘Multimedia Icon Set’ and, as the name suggests, contains 14 multimedia icons in PNG format. You will also find included in the download the AI source files. You are free to use this icon set for both personal and commercial projects.

Exclusive Free Icons: “Appliance Icons”
The set includes 10 super cute looking icons of all types of household appliances.

A Set of 15 TV Icons
A fresh set of 15 TV icons of varied designs, available in 256 x 256 pixels.

App Icons
It includes 28 icons for various applications, available in both png and ico format, from 128 to 16px.

iPad 2 Icons
The set includes 18 beautifully rendered icons of the iPad 2 with varying colored covers.

Cute Twitter Icons ~ Chrome
A new range of twitter icons in 256 x 256 pixels. Liven up your website with one of these little cuties.

Leather briefcase PSD & icon
A set of briefcase icons available in 512×512, 256×256, and 128×128 pixels.

Style Guides: A Free Icon Set for Writers
This high-quality icon set features 5 icons, all in PNG format, ranging from 32×32 px to 512×512 px.

Follow Me Icons
4 png icons for your blog design projects which include Twitter, Facebook, Feed and Favorite.

RSS Icons
A choice of 16 chic RSS icons to liven up any site.

Brand New Social Icons ~ Teacups
A cup of tea, anyone? 6 social icons that look simply delicious!

Minimalistica Icon Set
This simple two-toned collection is available in PNG: 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128

Awesome book icon
Awesome icon of a set of books, viewed from the spines as though they were on a shelf. 512px, 256px, 128px and 64px versions of the icons available in one archive.

Button-style Social Icons
A simple and clean set of social media based icons in 256 x 256 pixels.

Shopping Icons ~ Brand new set!
A set of beautiful icons for any web based shop or retail needs.

Purse icon
Beautiful leather purse, filled with large bills. Open it, take it

65 Classic Cocktails
A cool and stylish range of icons that one might find quite refreshing.

48 pixels web iconset
Includes a total of 226 icons related to websites, design, e-commerce.

Credit Card icons
A gorgeous set of 31 credit card icons.

Dreadhead Creatures
10 cute and coiffed original vector creature icons.

Things Icon
A random set of six .png’s ranging from 512px to 16px.

Comic Icons
A set of outstanding comically illustrated Icons.

Junior Icons
The sharp set includes 146 beautiful icons.

Rabbit Icons
An intriguing special Easter Bunny icon set which comes in 4 sizes as transparent PNG files available: 64x64px, 128x128px, 256x256px

Kraftwerk
This collection contains 13 icons with large resources for Windows & Mac OS X.

Classic Cars Icons
The set includes 6 beautiful icons of some classic cars.

HYDROPRO ICON PACK
HydroPRO Icon Pack contains 50 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: HDD Icon, My Computer Icon, Keyboard Icon, Mouse Icon and more…

Smooth Metal Software Pack
A set of 50 wonderfully illustrated icons for apps.

GPS navigation icons Part-2
This set includes GPS navigation icons in 4 colors and each icon comes in a 128×128 pixels fully layered PSD file.

Farm Fresh Icons
A set of beautiful and clean icons that contains an astounding 2000 application and mini icons.

Social Media Icons by Iconshock
This set includes 12 fantastically designed Social Media Icons.

PSD Shopping Bag Set
This set containes 9 beautifully crafted shopping bag icons.

Free credit card Icons
The most complete credit card icon set ever, 457 payment and credit card icons packed in this fantastic collection, it includes 9 sizes, pixel perfect icons for smaller sizes and vector for larger sizes.

Home icons
A set of home icons available in 512×512, 256×256 and 128×128 pixels with psd files.

High detail social icons
A set of visually stunning social media icons.

User icons
This set include 55 awesome user icons.

3D Download Icon
This set containes 4 transparent PNG files (64px; 128px; 256px; 512px) to help meet your project download needs.

Blue Icons by Shek
A set of 5 beautiful icons in a blue hue.

PSD Thank You Bubble Set
A wonderful set of 9 attractive bubbles that can be used for any purpose.

Free Briefcase Icon
A highly detailed briefcase icon presented in 3 different dimensions.

iPhone & iPad PSD templates & icons
A beautiful set of PNG icons in sizes 256×256, 128×128 and 64×64 pixels for use in your web projects.

Twitter Icons
A well designed set of Twitter Icons in vector format.

World globe PSD & icons
A set of different world globe icons with fully layered Photoshop files. Icons in various standard sizes such as 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32 pixels.

Ice candy PSD & icons
A set of tasty looking frozen dessert treat icons available in 512×512 and 256×256 pixels.

Free iMac Icon
Free iMac icon that will perfectly suit your creative headers, presentations, business cards, portfolio websites and print works. This quality illustration has been resized in three different dimensions to be useful for various needs.

GPS navigation icons Part-1
Each icon comes in a 128×128 pixels fully layered PSD file and isolated on a transparent background for the use in web projects as icons.

Html5 icons
A set of beautiful icons inspired by the html5 icon.

Battery Icons
This set includes PNG icons in sizes 512×512 and 256×256 pixels complete with psd.

Monochromatic Iconset
A simple, yet classic, set of monochromatic icons with an available PSD file.

Leaf Mimes Icons
A unique set of icons that can add a bit of style to your project.

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Blog-O-Folio is a free 2 column WordPress Theme suitable for any and all of your corporate, portfolio or personal blog needs. With a wide variety of tunable theme options and functionality to merge your portfolio with the blog, it is now ultra easy to maintain your blog and portfolio at the same time.

Blog-O-Folio Theme was coded and designed by MOin, supported by SloDive and featured by SmashingMagazine.

Download the Theme for Free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

• Live Demo
• Large Preview (1.19Mb)
• Download the .zip-package (.zip, 2.18 MB, includes instructions files)

Features

Here are some of the features of the theme:

• Simple, elegant & modern look
• Fast loading structure
• Supports comments threading and paging
• Fixed width
• 2 Columns
• Many tunable options
• Portfolio Integration
• Custom write panels
• 125 x 125 Sidebar Ads section
• Social icons integrated
• Email subscription form
• Qtips for subscribe icons
• Twitter integrated
• Theme Requirements: WordPress 2.9.1+

Installation:

In order to make Portfolio work like it should you need to rename two files in your Blog-O-Folio theme directory. Don’t worry its dead simple!

• First find your portfolio category ID. (Visit this link if you don’t know: Link.)
• After finding out your Portfolio category ID replace 00 in category-00.php & single-00.php files with your category ID.

What Can You Adjust From Admin Theme Options?

• Sidebar 125 x 125 ads: You can tune sidebar ads from inside your theme options just enter banner URLs and enter link for them.
• Sidebar buttons settings : Adjust RSS feed link, Twitter name and your Facebook profile/fan page/group link.
• Header logo settings: Tune your header image, enter image link and select either show image only, text only or both.
• Welcome Message Setting: Adjust welcome box from this menu, you can edit text to show in welcome box enter image link to show in welcome box.
• Google Analytics setting: Enter your Google Analytics code to track visitors.
• Misc Settings: From this menu you can tune variety of options such as Favicon, Portfolio category, Amount of portfolio entries to show, Exclude pages from navigation, Show or hide social media icons on posts.

Where Can You Adjust E-mail Subscription Form:

Blog-O-Folio comes with a built-in jQuery-powered email subscription form that will work with your FeedBurner account. Follow these simple instructions to set it up:

• Get your feed burner Feed Name e.g http://feeds.feedburner.com/Noupe here / Noupe is what you need.
• In Blog-O-Folio theme directory look for subscribe.html and edit it with any text editor.
• On line 4 & 6 put your feed name where it says FeedName.
• You are done, make sure you enabled Email Feeds from your feedburner dashboard.

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Getting the right look for your client’s projects, as well as your own, is one of the key make or break elements to your website creations. When users land on a site, an immediate impression is made, and we always want to make sure it the right one. Pulling this off on a budget is not always the easiest of tasks, which is what makes pre-made themes, both free and premium, a huge design time saver and arsenal must. Which is why today’s post so exciting!

Today we release yet another freebie: a beautiful website theme, designed by TemplatesBox and released for the Smashing Media family and its readers via Noupe. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects.

Download the Theme for Free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

• large preview (.jpg, 1.69 Mb)
• download the .zip-package (zip, 81.5 Mb, including instructions)

Features

Below we have some large preview images (with links to even larger ones) of the various page layouts and elements included in this exclusive freebie. Not that you need the enticing, but what can we say, we wanted to wet your appetites a bit before you download the main course. Take a look down through this sneak peek before adding this graciously crafted and donated design exclusive into your design toolbox.

Index (large preview)

About (large preview)

Portfolio (large preview)

Services (large preview)

Contact (large preview)

Behind the Design

Here are some insights on the designers:

TemplatesBox has been serving the online design and development community since 2002, providing professional website templates to its customers and members. Renowned for their dedication to the overall quality of both their product and their customer and member’s experience, they have established themselves in the industry as a trusted source for your numerous template needs. Visit TemplatesBox to download beautiful website templates, flash templates, logo templates and many other website graphics.

Thank you, TemplatesBox. We appreciate your work and your good intentions.

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Tumblr is getting popular day after day because of its flexibility, power and simplicity. Tumblr is a blogging platform through which you can share your content, images and videos with the world even when you are on the go. This is because it empowers bloggers to post and customize their content from a web browser, email or phone.

This post contains some beautiful free themes that will let you enhance your Tumblr experience. This post features not only themes but also some over-the-top Tumblr widgets and Apps to manage your Tumblr account with ease.

Free Tumblr Themes

Adaptation ( Demo | Download )
An attention grabbing theme with a blood red background that makes it hard to divert your eyes from:

Be Original ( Demo | Download )
A neat and simple Tumblr theme that embodies originality of your ideas:

The Fisherman’s Friend ( Demo | Download )
Innovative and out of the ordinary. I adore the imaginative show and color palette used in this theme:

Clean Read ( Demo | Download )
A minimalism based theme mainly focuses on typographic elements:

(More) Important Things ( Demo | Download )
This is probably the liveliest and most sparkling theme in the collection:

Paper Walls ( Demo | Download )
This theme is made of recyclable materials from top to bottom. Simple and effective:

Plaid ( Demo | Download )
An interesting pattern of mosaic with black and purple color is enough to attract visitors and get them to stick to your blog:

Field Notes ( Demo | Download )
A dark colored theme with plain background and simple layout to attract your readers towards your blog posts:

Redux ( Demo | Download )
A nicely colored, simple and attractive theme that can set your Tumblr blog apart from others:

Fluid ( Demo | Download )
This is perhaps the most tempting theme in the gallery with a beautifully colored and shiny layout:

One Very Important Thought ( Demo | Download )
Although dark, this theme is certainly very powerful in engaging visitors and readers interest:

101 ( Demo | Download )
A colorful and visually alluring theme to spice up your Tumblr blog:

Organ ( Demo | Download )
Another dark background theme with some attention grabbing graphics:

Letterpress ( Demo | Download )
A simple and neat theme with grey background that gives a very professional look:

Headline Tumblr Theme ( Demo | Download )
Make your blog appear as a big corporate website with this professionally designed theme:

Rio Theme ( Demo | Download )
A fresh and funky Tumblr template, narrow tumblog-styled design:

Modern1 ( Demo | Download )
An elegant and contemporary theme that certainly sanctifies your blog with the rest in the industry:

Vintage Stripes ( Demo | Download )
A beautiful theme based on retro styles to give your Tumblr blog a vintage look:

Pink touch 2 ( Demo | Download )
A simply minimalist theme focusing on the content of your post. A perfect choice for the perfectionists:

Chunky ( Demo | Download )
Make your content appear in chunks so as to better accommodate content, audios, videos, images, etc.:

Natural Elegance ( Demo | Download )
Demonstrate the simplicity and sophistication of the color black through this beautiful Natural Elegance theme:

Easy Reader 2 ( Demo | Download )
This theme lives up to its name. This is a nice and easy to read theme that comes with a beautiful contrasted heavy header:

Mac Envy ( Demo | Download )
Mac Envy is one of the first freely available Tumblr themes, and a perfect Tumblr theme for Mac fanatics:

Silo ( Demo | Download )
The photographic background of this theme, along with the cool and stylish grid layout is enough to attract visitors towards your blog:

for.screen ( Demo | Download )
This is one of the most beautiful dark themes in this compilation with some harsh shadows and big icons:

Penguin Classics Recycled ( Demo | Download )
A beautiful old styled design is being recycled and given a very contemporary look:

Transparent Theme ( Demo | Download )
This theme comes with a soft background coupled with pleasing and nice transparent frames:

PhotoBoard ( Demo | Download )
PhotoBoard is a grid layout theme that simply embodies a bulletin board look:

Futura ( Demo | Download )
The most popular and highly anticipated theme from IKEA to House MD has finally reached Tumblr:

Dark Paper ( Demo | Download )
You will find some beautiful letterpress effects on the frames along with a dark background:

Dream Theme ( Demo | Download )
The compulsory flower-patterned burst theme. Beautifully well done:

Wood Revisited ( Demo | Download )
A nice, simple and eye-catching background, although this theme could use some refinements overall:

Strange Little Town ( Demo | Download )
A sparkling theme with shiny stars at the top and a spooky town at the bottom:

Coffee Shop ( Demo | Download )
A peaceful and affectionate theme that features an inspired coffee cup design with whimsical froth:

iBlack ( Demo | Download )
This is an iPhone like theme that features rounded date icons and a rich background:

Funkytional Sezeen ( Demo | Download )
Another simple and attractive theme with a light colored background and beautiful typography:

Dainty Fresh ( Demo | Download )
A floral based and very invigorating theme having beautiful flowers in the background:

Revista ( Demo | Download )
This is a customizable theme so that you can change font, color, background and even images. All four columns are displayed in the form of grids and are extremely easy to work with:

Tumblr Widgets and Apps

Tumbltape
Tumbltape is a widget that easily turns any Tumblr blog into a play-list. It is created with the latest songs on a user’s tumblelog, and the play-list is updated automatically as new songs are uploaded:

Hellotxt
With Hellotxt, you can easily post text, audio, video and photo updates to Tumblr. This update can even be done by way of email, SMS, IM, WAP browser or third-party applications:

Tumblr Tag Clouds
This is a tag cloud generator for Tumblr. It uses the Tumblr API’s JSON output and jQuery to generate a tag cloud each time your site is accessed:

Twitter for tumblr
Twitter widget for tumblr allows your stream to show up on your tumblog:

Comeks
Create & share funny Comeks messages online or in mobile. Combine your photos with speech bubbles and add-on stickers. Share in: Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and more:

Tumblweed
This widget is designed as a desktop client that lets you view posts and create new ones right from your desktop. Tumblweed works perfectly well on Windows and Mac, and it also allows photo posts from webcams, clipboards, or drag-and-dropping:

Rotzy
Rotzy lets you share and broadcast your iPhone photos to Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. You can easily take and share life’s events with your iPhone:

TumblePhone
This widget allows you to view an iPhone optimized web layout for any Tumblr username:

Tumbleeze
This is a free Adobe air application that lets you drag and drop your videos, audios, and images directly to your tumblog:

Tumblr widget
Makes posting easy and fun. Make regular posts with HTML formatting and spellchecking. Your username and password are saved in between sessions making posting to your tumblr account quick and easy:

Post To Tumblr
Post To Tumblr is a simple extension that adds easy right-click-post functionality to Chrome:

Tumblr Dashboard
Access your tumblelog and create new content right from your Chrome toolbar:

Streampad – Tumblr MP3 Player
If you like listening to music on Tumblogs, you may be interested in this project. Play all the music from everyone you follow on Tumblr:

Psolenoid
Psolenoid lets you link your Tumblr posts to other related posts on other blogs. In this way, it provides reciprocal link exchange that ultimately brings in a new set of visitors to your blogs:

tarpipe
Automate publishing and sharing of your tumblogs with this web app to 22 other blogging and social networking platforms at the same time. With tarpipe, you can publish your content by emails, IM’s and other apps:

TumblrStats
TumblrStats provides comprehensive information about your tumblog including stats on the number of posts, rate and type of posts, time since last post, etc. All the information is provided in a neatly designed page:

Tumblr Post
It is a Firefox addon that helps you posting updates, quotes, photos, videos and audios to your Tumblr with a simple drag and drop function. With this addon installed in Firefox, you will no longer be required to save videos and photos to your desktop prior to posting them to your Tumblog:

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