Cool free stuff for your blog

Images

Quite a lot of resources are available online for free stock images but it takes time to find some good ones. For some of them, you will have to pay. But there are tons of royalty free images too which are pretty neat and come to good use. Daniel has a good write up on 3 image resources that you can use on your blog and Hongkiat has listed 30+ resources for stock photos.

Icons

These tiny/medium-sized icons can aid in describing the category of your post. Icons are so popular that they paved the way for Icon search engines! If you’re looking for icon resources for use on your website or blog, you could check any of these:

MaxPower’s Extensive Icon resources list

Smashing Magazine’s indigestible lists of free icon, symbol & button resources online: List 1, List 2, List 3. Smashing Magazine publishes amazing lists from time to time, and I suggest you to subscribe for updates from them.

Icon search engines like Iconlet and Iconfinder can make the job easier for you, letting you to search icons based on keywords. Iconlet also lists all available icons sorted by size.

Funny Comics

Blaugh is one excellent resource for comics filled with humour. Touted as the Unofficial comic of the Blogosphere, you can embed these comics in your blog for free and give your readers a taste of humour. ToonDoo is another site that can help you create your own comics.

Polls

Conducting polls can help you build interactivity among readers of your blog. It’s terribly easy now to create polls to put up on your blog.

Quite a number of sites let you do that. Most popular one is PollDaddy. Nirmal has compiled a good list of online poll creators for your blog.

Fun with Generators

I love online generators – that can make messages and signs in seconds. With a little bit of creativity, you can make some good stuff with generators and insert them on your blog.

For example, you could get a post it note from the Sticky Note Generator here and then use it to remind your blog readers of something. Creativity is the key.

Another emerging generator tool is the web 2.0 button generator that lets you create web 2.0 style buttons for your blog online. Stripe Generator can generate very professionally looking stripes in seconds.

Cool looking Web 2.0 Button

The Generator Blog lists hundreds of generators that’ll do the fun job.

Hope these resources help you out.
Do you know of any more cool resources that you can share with us?

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28 Responses to “Cool free stuff for your blog”

Ashish Saini (Ashfame) on June 30th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

Good Compilation!
Try these too.
http://www.fodey.com/
http://www.needasig.com/

You will love fodey.com
Ashwin on June 30th, 2007 at 4:33 pm

A cool list man.

I’ve just started to experiment with the comic thing and I make my own. It takes time and effort (not to mention, your creative juice), but well worth the effort!

Stumbled!
Nirmal on June 30th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

Thanks for the mention.
Ramkarthik on June 30th, 2007 at 4:41 pm

Very useful post. Coming to polls, you can also try vizu polls. I think you can also earn money with that poll.
The comic strips are really funny.
Ashwin on June 30th, 2007 at 4:47 pm

This Generator thing is cool. I was looking for a nice header image for my blog.. it will make my job easier!
luv on June 30th, 2007 at 5:06 pm

Hey tatz an vry gr8 post i lyk it vry mch vry informative
shashank on June 30th, 2007 at 5:37 pm

cool post…
Dj Flush on June 30th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

lol amazing post there Shankar. Blaugh rocks hahha and thanks for the link back
Madhur Kapoor on June 30th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

awesome list Shankar , i am going to be hooked to generators now .
Techie Buzz on June 30th, 2007 at 7:47 pm

Great comprehensive list Shankar. All these are really quite useful if you are a blogger. Stumbled
ram on June 30th, 2007 at 11:50 pm

good list shankar, those cartoons are hilarious
kuanhoong on July 1st, 2007 at 4:15 am

Nice info.
Those cartoons are really funny!
Shankar Ganesh on July 1st, 2007 at 4:24 am

I’m glad you guys liked the post.
@Ashfame: Thanks for that. Fodey is really cool.
@Ashwin: Thanks for the stumble. And yeah, the generator blog is really cool.
@RamKarthik: Vizu is a good way to make money. Applied for approval
@Dj, Nirmal: Welcome.
@Madhur: Enjoy your day with generators.. hehe
@Techie Buzz: Thanks for the stumble.
Lovedeep Wadhwa on July 1st, 2007 at 6:47 am

Interesting Links
Shankar Ganesh on July 1st, 2007 at 2:39 pm

Thanks for dropping by, Lovedeep
Sankaranand on July 2nd, 2007 at 2:24 pm

Add my lists too shankar,

1.For free image hosting with unlimited bandwidth and storage try zooomr so that u can save bandwidth

2.For Free stock images which you can use in blog posts,
try http://www.sxc.hu/ very good site containing high quality images
Shankar Ganesh on July 2nd, 2007 at 2:26 pm

Yep, I was trying Zooomr the other day and I’m extremely pleased that they offer unlimited bandwidth.
And Sxc.hu is the best for stock images, it’s up there on every ’stock image sites compilation’ i see on the net.

Thanks for dropping by, SankarAnand.
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My Financial Mistakes on July 4th, 2007 at 4:08 am

very useful post! thanks…
Tech Thoughts on July 4th, 2007 at 6:13 am

Great info
Shankar Ganesh on July 4th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

Thanks, Tech Thoughts and My Financial Mistakes
Srinivasan Paul Joseph on July 9th, 2007 at 8:21 am

Hey Shankar,

Really useful posts are coming from your Blog. I’ven’t visited for almost one month now and when I’m back I was taken aback by your immense post counts. Keep it going!

Thanks for this info here…
Shankar Ganesh on July 9th, 2007 at 11:24 am

Thanks, Srinivasan. All this wouldn’t have been possible without your support.
lady influence on July 11th, 2007 at 6:37 am

you have a really nice blog.. i like the template it’s so clean..
Shankar Ganesh on July 11th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

@Lady Influence: Thanks for dropping by.
Mikey on November 28th, 2007 at 7:12 pm

Yeah, this is a very very cool blog.
I just added you to my favorites.

Thanx,
Mikey
Marios on November 30th, 2007 at 10:13 pm

interesting
Meg on March 13th, 2009 at 3:03 am

Heya,

Great post.

I am trying to insert a stripe I created with the stripe generator to the background of my blog, but as I have no idea about CSS or HTML, I don’t know how to do it.

Can you pls help me?

Many thanks,

Meg

Shankar Ganesh