Do you ever find yourself stuck with creativity blockage? It may be interior designing, painting, creative writing, or any form of art. This is a common setback that all artists go through but if you are web designer then you do not need to worry about this blockage. Here are some of the handiest references to get the required inspiration from and overcome this hurdle easily. So grab the extra boost of creativity with these search engines. Yes, you heard it right (actually, read it right!). There are search engines meant especially for designers which provide them with every specific thing that you are looking for.

Icon Finder

This is a search engine that enables you to find icons. It is a search engine with difference as it has several features in it such as ‘most popular’ feature. This feature helps you to surf through the popular icons and hence help you immensely. It has more than 50,000 high quality icons in formats such as PNG, ICO, and ICNS for operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh, and Linux Systems. Most of the icons here can be used freely for commercial purposes. However, there are few copyrighted icons too which belongs to the author and you need to pay for them in case you wish to use them commercially. This will definitely help your web design company to find best web 2.0 Icons.

Icon Look 

This is similar to the previous icon searching search engine that is nicely designed. This search engine has cool features such as link exchange, random icons, and popular icons. The search engine is in beta version but gives good performance. It is also a store house of numerous creative icons.

IconDB

This search engine is quite useful but it can be a bit difficult to navigate for the new comers. It has a voluminous database and provides with best results for the search. No doubts, the interface of the search engine is nice but just seems to be over whelming initially. It has great list of icon collection for software developers and website designers.

Icons Search

This is another great icons searching search engine with several useful features. This not only provides the icons search but also has the guidelines for searching the exact icons that you are looking for and provides with relevant links to the designer. The relevant link listings is found in terms of emoticons, desktop, web and graphics and many more. Hence, it makes the work of finding icons very easy and comfortable for any designer. Icons for operating systems such as Windows Vista and XP, Macintosh, Linux, Desktop icons, Software icons, Website icons, and so can be found here in sizes from 16x16 to 256x256.

Very Icon

This is an invaluable tool for all designers as it has icon category and advanced search features. It has more than 20000 high quality web icons in more than 1000 icon packs. All the icons have numerous file formats such as PNG, ICO, and so on. All these can are generally free and easily downloadable for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux Systems.

FyFont

This is truly a cool and very useful search engine for finding fonts. The best part about this search engine is there is no need to type any specific word in the search box, simple upload the font sample that you have and it will identify the fonts.

FontHit

This is a very simple but an effective search engine for finding fonts. The search engine enables you to perform functionalities via a plugin framework. It can make you preview, install, uninstall, print in color, customize size and text of the font files.

Find TTF 

This is a very comprehensive search engine that has more than 314,000 fonts. This can provide you with any sorts of fonts that you are dreaming of with such a huge database of fonts.

TutSearch

This is a tutorial search engine for all designers. It has a rich database of 100 handpicked tutorials on designing. There are tutorials for everything right from HTML code, CSS to learning and improving English Language.

Vectorials

This is another amazing search engine for when seeking for vector. It has a large database and numerous software categorized tutorials meant for the all the designers. It is the most excellent search engine for learning vector for any designer.

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Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace has a list of loyal fans, but these companies are not able to mint money through it. MySpace's projected huge revenue in 2008 falls far short of parent News Corp's sales target. Twitter even tough has acclaimed wide spread popularity yet it does not have a business model.

The social media companies were hoping for the best to happen with the advent of web 2.0 but unfortunately for them the last year has been a big disappointment as far as financial earnings were concerned. Web 2.0 has no doubts reformed the way we use the web but it has not been successful in making the companies earn much from it.

One of the reasons for this is that the present economic conditions of the web are chiller than the first dot com craze. In the past year only 6 companies from U.S. went public thus shutting the door for any initial public offerings. Another reason is that the ads displayed on the social sites such as facebook are most of the times ignored by the user as they are engaged in seeing pictures or messages from their friends. For this reason only, Yahoo news can charge as much as 30 times more than facebook for putting the banner ad.

Hence, no doubts that Facebook and MySpace and other similar websites will be able to grow up economically but not as powerfully as sites like Yahoo or Amazon or Google for that matter. Amazon started out as only an online bookstore but now it has covered almost all the products for online shopping. So is the case with Google which started out as a search engine and now has a major share in several other fields as well. It is for sure that the web 2.0 boom would be at stake with a new web technology coming into being.

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Several IT companies have made creating World Wide Web a conventional business platform mainly due to the advancement in the technology. However, there are several companies with web designers who unable to come up with a proper web designing solution. Here are some of the fatal mistakes that a designer needs to avoid for making good web designs in the IT industry:

1st Mistake to Avoid: Improper Strategy and Plan of the Website- it is very essential that the idea of the entire website is well developed keeping the target audience in mind. The identification of the audience will enable a designer to create a website that is user friendly and takes care of the usability goals.

2nd Mistake to Avoid: Complex Designs- one of the mistakes that a web designer does is choosing a complex design for the website that is confusing for the user to understand. Selection of a feasible web design will enable the user to navigate easily and comfortably.

3rd Mistake to Avoid: Incongruity of Design and the Theme of the Website- a website is much more than a mere representation of your business on the web. In fact, it is a tool through which you can build your company’s brand identity and therefore, having a website that has contradiction between its design and theme will ruin your chances of making a brand identity. For instance, a lawyer firm cannot have a bright colored flashy website like that of music. Hence, always keep the theme in mind while designing a website.

4th Mistake to Avoid: Web Design Lacking From SEO Perspective- it is needless to say that you can gain most of the traffic and customers through search engines and this makes it mandatory for you to have a web design that is SEO friendly.

5th Mistake to Avoid: Non- interactive website design- in these days of extreme technological advancement especially for communication, it is necessary that the website has a design that is interactive. This will attract more visitors and the visitor will also be able to give his or her input too in the website.

6th Mistake to Avoid: Too Much of Scrolling- many a times the web designer overdo the length of the page and hence the visitor needs to scroll a lot. This is highly uncomfortable for the user and therefore, you must always design a website that has not much of scrolling of the pages.

7th Mistake to Avoid: More Number of Clicks- if there are too many clicks to go a particular page then the visitor is bound to get bored with it. Thus have clicks on the website only as per requirements. It shouldn’t be too much nor too less.

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A website has several benefits to provide the owner only if the website is created in a proper way. It is the primarily medium on the internet to attract customers towards your business. Here are the essential steps to begin with for becoming a proud owner of a website with good designing.

1. Select a name for the domain: this is the first step toward your journey of thousands of miles. A domain name is just like a name given to you; of course, here it will be the name of your business. Make sure that the name you choose to have here should be relevant as well it will become your identity on the net. It will be in that very familiar format such as myfavoritename(dot)com. This is called a domain name. While making a choice of the domain name, you need to take your budget into consideration. I know you must be curious to know why? Well, the answer is that if you have a greater budget for advertising then you can have a name as per your wish but if you have low budget then you can always turn your keyword into the domain name.
2. Website Designing: this consists of selecting from a several designs that are available on the net or you can also hire a web designer for making your website. A website consists of several of pages such as Home page, About Us page, Contact Us page and many others. Make sure that the pages are user friendly, easily navigable and most important attractive enough to grab the attention of the viewers. It is necessary that the web pages are effective enough to provide you with call to action.
3. Do not have too many advertisements on your website as this will put off the customers and might leave your website as soon as one lands on it. The best solution for this is to have only 25% of advertisement on your website. It will also provide a professional look to your website.
4. Another irritating thing on the website is that of a blinking advertisement or a text. A scrolling text can also be a major put off for the visitors. It also keeps on distracting while reviewing your website.
5. Try and minimize the places of clicking on your website. This means that must not be too many clicks in the media res of the visitor and the information. Some sites require you to provide with name before one can see it. This is can be very irritating and also the visitor might be reluctant to do so as the person is not sure as to what exactly your website contains and therefore, run away before even reviewing it.
6. Have a navigation menu on all the pages of the website. This will facilitate the visitor with easy navigation and will also enable them to jump on from one to the other information with ease.
7. Make sure you select a text that is readable by the visitor without any troubles. This includes all concern such as the having a proper layout of the content to the color and the size of the font. You cannot have the content spread very wide on the screen as it becomes tedious for the reader to find the start of the next line. Hence, you can keep the layout narrower or write content in the form of columns which makes it easier for the visitor to read.

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Gone are the days of tragedy when you had to make use of the ugly templates for making a cheap website. A website is necessary to make your presence on the internet, but a professional web designer would generally cost you a lot. Therefore, you prefer to use one of those readymade templates that are so much common and clichéd. This will also result into low page rank on the search engines. With template websites your might not even rank in top 100 lists and therefore, it will be almost equivalent to not having a website. So are you perplexed as to what to do? Then an easy answer to this is to outsource your work to an Indian web design company.

The Indian Web Design Companies like Viteb have a team of well experienced professional designers and developers. Hence, you can get quality service and since the work is done in India, you can cut the cost of building a website easily. The web design packages offered by Indian companies are quite reasonable especially, Viteb provides with the best deals for web design and development. The web design and development packages start with only $99which is not available anywhere else. However, there is no compromise on the quality of work that the company performs. Hence, you have no need to compromise with your company’s online identity. Make the most unique website and enjoy the lion’s share in the online market.

Not only this, but like icing on the cake, Viteb also provides with SEO and SEM packages that also starts with $99. The company is well reputed in the market for its organic SEO services. It implements the white hat tactics for achieving the desired ranking on all the search engines. The company also offers a cent percent satisfaction with their services. In the times of economic crisis, I think viteb offers the best web solutions for all small as well as large businesses. Hence, make unique and well designed website with the reasonable web design and development packages and SEO packages.

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