Donna Vitan

Have you always wanted something for nothing?

Of course you do! Well I’ve found another jem upon my stumblings on the net which is something I do to pass time and most often, something I do to avoid work. The great thing about these is that they’re available for the low, low price of $0.00. And that sir, is a lot of donuts. Sweet.

While spending some free time, I’ve stumbled upon a neat little site that offers icons for free. Just visit famfamfam.com and you can thank Mark James, a UK based web developer for putting out there for us freebie lovers.

IconBuffet.com is also a great resource for commerical icons. They look so smooth and clean, often for a great price. And what’s even better is that they also offer free sets, but there’s a catch. You have to sign up, and at first you have 1 out of 16 sets. Every month, they’ll send you another delivery and so on until you get them all. At least, that’s the theory! You can always ask other members on the forum for the ones you’re missing, so it becomes more like an icon exchange party.

Available:
Farewell Snow
Manhattan Night Life
Oslo Atmosphere
Oslo Finance
Shanghai Tech
Taipei Buddies 2
Taipei Monkey
Taipei Night Market
Taipei Plastic Primates
Tower Grove Promenade

Missing:
Marseilles Cafe
Modena Simbolo
Taipei Buddies 1
Tower Grove Melee

Enjoy the fun, and if you have any of the deliveries I’m missing feel free to send to me. I tip well. Tee hee.

I’ve been happy with Blogger when I first started this site and it’s performed as expected. I’ve read many reviews and have seen many other Blogger sites, when I first made the choice of going with Blogger. They mostly agreed that this application is great for beginners because it provides everything you need to get started with a blog right away, but I’m not a beginner anymore and I don’t want that beginner stigma to stay with me.

The reason why I’m considering WordPress is because its far more customizable than Blogger. Granted you can create your own theme for Blogger, but it doesn’t do much else. I’d like to be able to add trackback links and skinnable comments so that when users do write comments, they are not taken to a different window for it. It doesn’t create that seamless environment, and as a designer, it would be neglectful of me to stick with default settings. In the creative realm, defaults scream novice.

So expect to see a change in the near future, as I will be migrating to WordPress soon enough.

Have a look at WordPress here: www.wordpress.org