100 Social Networking icons in vector format.

At Logorunner Design we work on numerous websites. A feature for most web sites and blogs today is the ability to easily share content on popular social media networks. Your visitors should be able to easily share with their favourite social bookmarking services.

Our design philosophy is to produce clean, minimal and quality design for everything we do. We’ve produced a set of social icons in vector format to help designers who are looking for a simple and effective design solutions for social buttons. The icons are one colour (black) and can easily be inverted. The style has been kept simple and iconic so it can be adapted to many uses. The premium version also has a colour set. As a promotion we think it is a great way of sharing the work produced.

Free Version

The free .zip file contains 100 free vector based social bookmarking and useful web icons in Adobe Illustrator .ai, .eps and .pdf formats. The icons are black on white, and have no background. You may download this file and use the social and web icons for your personal use.

Free Download for 100 Vector Social Media Bookmarking Icons

(0.8 MB)

Premium Version

Included in the premium version are the social network icons within buttons, social network icons within squares and there are colour sets for both. The premium version contains Adobe Illustrator .ai, .eps and .pdf formats. You may download this file to use the social and web icons for your personal use.

Premium Version £5

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Why vectors?

This is mainly useful for designers and artists who are looking for vector versions of  social icons so they can scale to any size without loss of details. Designers can then adapt and create their own versions without loss of detail.

Social Media Icons & Useful Web Icons

A great visual way is to use icons when linking to social media sites. They grab your visitors attention and the logos / icons are immediately recognizable.

What is social media? Many social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags. This is a great way to promote your blog or website. So if you didn’t know what is Myspace? or what is Twitter? Now you can find just how many there are.

Social Media Network Icons available in Downloads:

AIM, AMAZON, APP STORE, APPLE, BEEBO, BEHANCE, BING, BLINKLIST, BLIP, BLOGGER, BRIGHTKITE, DELICIOUS, DESIGN BUMP, DESIGN FLOAT, DEVIANT ART, DIGG #1, DIGG #2, DRIBBBLE, DRUPAL, DZONE, EBAY, EMBER, EVERNOTE, FACEBOOK, FACEBOOK PLACES, FAVES, FEEDBURNER, FLICKR, FOLKD, FORMSPRING, FORRST, FRIENDFEED, FRIENDSTER, GDGT, GITHUB, GOOGLE +1, GOOGLE BUZZ, GOOGLE TALK, GOWALLA, GROOVESHARK, ICLOUD, ICQ, LAST.FM. LINKEDIN, METACAFE, MIXX, MR WONG, MYSPACE, NETLOG, NETVIBES SHARE, NEWSVINE, NOWPUBLIC, OPENID, ORKUT, PAYPAL, PHOTOBUCKET, PICASSA, PLAYSTATION, PLURK, PODCASTING, POSTEROUS, QIK, RDIO, REDDIT, RETWEET, RSS, SHARETHIS, SKYPE, SLASHDOT, STUMBLEUPON, TAGZA, TECHNORATI, TIPD, TUMBLR, TWITTER #1, TWITTER #2, TWITTER #3, VIDDLER, VIRB, VIMEO, WIKIPEDIA, WINDOWS, WORDPRESS, XING, YAHOO, YELP, YOUTUBE, ZERPLY

Note: The icons may not be resold, sub licensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. The icons may not be offered for free downloading from websites other than www.thelogorunner.com

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Measurement Converter Calculator

Note: 1 inch = 2.54 cm, 1 foot = 30.48 cm, 1 metres = 39.37 inches

Here is a useful measurement calculator to help you convert various different measurements like cm to inches.

Example: cm to feet and inches, or feet to metres

Just type in a value you want to convert in one of the boxes and click ‘calculate’. The measurement will automatically be converted to the other formats, ie. cm – inches or inches to mm.

Hopefully you’ll find this online measurement conversion calculator a really useful tool to convert from one unit to another.Centimetres, millimetres,inches,feet and metres.

Bookmark this page and refer back every time you want to convert centimeters to meters or inches to centimeters. Easily work out metres to feet or metres to inches.

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Here is a useful reference for A paper sizes in mm or A paper dimensions in inches. So you can easily find out A4 in cm or A3 in inches.

Dimensions of Interantional ‘A Series’ Paper Sizes as defined by ISO 216

Here is a table containing the dimensions of the A series paper sizes.

Dimensions are given in the table below in millimeters, centimetres and inches.

Table of Paper Sizes From 4A0 to A10

The A Series paper size chart below visual explanation of how the sizes relate to each other – for example A4 is half of A3 size paper and A1 is half of A0 size paper.

A Series Paper Sizes Chart – A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8

4A0 & 2A0 – The DIN 476 Oversize Formats

The paper sizes bigger than A0, 4A0 & 2A0, aren’t formerly defined by ISO 216 but are commonly used for oversized paper. The origin of these formats is in the German DIN 476 standard, that was the original base document from which ISO 216 was derived.
A Series Paper Size Tolerances

ISO 216 specifies tolerances for the production of A series paper sizes as follows:

±1.5 mm (0.06 in) for dimensions up to 150 mm (5.9 in)
±2 mm (0.08 in) for lengths in the range 150 to 600 mm (5.9 to 23.6 in)
±3 mm (0.12 in) for any dimension above 600 mm (23.6 in)

A Series Paper Sizes Defined

The A series paper sizes is calculated by the following format:

The length divided by the width is 1.4142
The A0 size has an area of 1 square metre.
Each subsequent size A(n) is defined as A(n-1) cut in half parallel to its shorter sides.
The standard length and width of each size is rounded to the nearest millimetre.
International Usage

The A series paper sizes are now in common use throughout the world apart from in the US, Canada and parts of Mexico. The A4 size has become the standard business letter size in English speaking countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the UK, that used to use British Imperial sizes. In Europe the A paper sizes were adopted as the formal standard in the mid 20th century.

So now you can easily find A4 size in mm, A4 in cm,A3 size in cm,A4 in inches or A3 in inches etc.

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Social networking icons in vector format.

Recently working on a website we produced a series of social bookmark icons for some of the favourite social networks.

As a promotion we think it is a great way of sharing the work produced.

The zip file contains 24 free vector based social bookmarking icons in an Adobe Illustrator .ai format. It has been kept basic so designers can take the basic shapes to create variations for their own projects.

Also included in the free download is the original flash .fla file. These are the glassy effect icons and could be useful for Flash projects.

Why vectors?

This is mainly useful for designers and artists who are looking for a vector version of icons so they can scale to any size without loss of details. Artists could then adapt and create their own versions.

Social Networks

A major feature for web sites and blogs today is the ability to easily bookmark or share content on popular social media platforms. Your website visitors should be able to easily share  with their favoured social bookmarking services.

A great visual way is to use icons when linking to social media sites. They grab your visitors attention and the logos / icons  are immediately recognizable.

Many social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags.  A great way to promote your WordPress blog.

24 Free Vector Social Bookark icons

Download the free zip file below to get your free vector graphics for the social network icons.

The pack contains 24 bookmarking service icons within one .ai file.

Flash Social Bookmarking Graphics

Also included in the zip file is the original Flash .fla file. This file has all the icons along with the glossy layers. I’ve added this as it is useful for any Flash development.

The free social media icon vector graphics were created originally in Flash, and then exported to Illustrator (without the glassy effect layers).

Social Bookmarks and various networking icons available in free download:

Blinklist, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Designfloat, Devmarks, Digg, Diigo, Email, Facebook, Google bookmarks, Izeby, Linkedin, MisterWong, Mixx, MySpace, Newsvine, Reddit, rss, Script and Style, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Tipd, Tumblr, Twitter

Download Free vector social bookmarking icons

(1.403 MB)

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Reasons why we like WordPress.

WordPress can be a great all round solution for nearly any type of website on the internet. Whether your goal is a simple blog or a complex content management system, WordPress is accessible to all.

Licensed under the GPL, WordPress is free and open source. Beginners, or people looking for a free option can be writing on the internet in no time at all. Designers and developers can download, install and start adapting WordPress very easily. Many hosting companies now have a one button press strategy to install and have WordPress working on your desired domain.

WordPress as a C.M.S. (Content Management System)

WordPress is a powerhouse blogging and development platform, but can it be used as a serious CMS? Forget using wordpress as a blog and think about it as a regular website and how you would engineer a site. By learning the basic principles of the code or by utilising existing plugins you can adapt WordPress into something amazing. You can even hide the fact that it is WordPress by changing the appearance of the ‘back-end’ and login system.  In WordPress you have the ability to categorize, tag and add detailed custom fields, it makes indexing data and searching really easy. The logorunner website is a great example of how to adapt WordPress.

So here are the reasons why we think WordPress is great to develop with:

It’s Simple

WordPress is a really straight forward system to setup and use. Adding content with a WYSIWYG editor is straight forward and familiar. The only task is producing interesting content. We also recommend adding a few well written plugins to enhance the basic install. A plugin to manage photos and pictures easily and a good flash / video player.

It’s Flexible

You can change the look and feel of your site in a matter of minutes. WordPress supports themes or templates that are built to give it a unique look and feel. Themes are completely decoupled from your content allowing you to custom change CSS parameters without fear of loosing your information. There are a number of sites dedicated to providing WordPress themes.We usually find a theme that we like to use as a base and then modify it so that it is just what we want.

It’s Powerful

It uses AJAX, is dynamic, social, interactive, and interacts with just about any other web 2.0 / social media site out there.
WordPress is built on a three part architecture that keeps people honest. The first is the WordPress engine. It is an OpenSource project created by a diverse group of developers with a simple mission of creating great software.WordPress is search engines friendly right out of the box. With the addition of a few plugins like All-In-One-SEO, and Google XML Sitemap Generators, your installation of WordPress will become Google’s best friend. The WordPress community give it all the love and support it could ever need.

Plug and Play

The WordPress architecture supports the addition of custom functionality through plugins. Plugins are individual software programs adding specialized features and functions to WordPress. Plugins are desiged by developers around the world. Whether you are interested in making your installation of WordPress more accessible to search engines or publishing your audio files to iTunes, there is a plugin for everyone. WordPress plugins are literally plug and play (both to install and maintain)

It’s popular

WordPress is a widely used platform. The popularity of WordPress is no coincidence and the points mentioned above are a big reason why WordPress is such a popular blogging and CMS platform. As far as support is concerned WordPress has one of the best support communities. If you have a question head on over to the support forum.

WordPress is the first choice for many personal blogs all over the world. You can make it look and feel just how you like, for free. With a little more knowledge of CSS and WordPress PHP basics you can turn it into a powerhouse website, content managed and search engine friendly.

There have now been enough versions to have proved that it’s a stable solution. Once setup, your site just works. Allowing you to create content rather than troubleshoot errors. To conclude, WordPress is great for writers, software designers/developers, and the internet overall.

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Promote yourself with social bookmarking

A major feature for web sites and blogs today is the ability to easily bookmark or share content on popular social media platforms. Your website visitors should be able to easily share  with their favoured social bookmarking services.

A great visual way is to use icons when linking to social media sites. They grab your visitors attention and the logos / icons  are immediately recognizable.

Many social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags.  A great way to promote your WordPress blog.

24 Free Social Bookark icons

Recently working on a website we produced a series of social bookmark icons for some of the favourite social networks.

As a promotion we think it is a great way of sharing the work produced.

Download the free zip file below to get your free social booking icon graphics.

The pack contains 24 bookmarking service icons in various sizes. Graphics format is PNG. Sizes include:

Social Bookmarks and various networking icons available in various sizes in free download:

Blinklist, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Designfloat, Devmarks, Digg, Diigo, Email, Facebook, Google bookmarks, Izeby, Linkedin, MisterWong, Mixx, MySpace, Newsvine, Reddit, rss, Script and Style, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Tipd, Tumblr, Twitter

Download the zip file here:

Download Free Social Bookmarking Icons

[1.03 MB]
Enjoy

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How important is it to have a professional well designed for your company ?

The truth is a poor logo will cost you money by putting off potential customers with poor first impressions. A logo is the initial face of your company not just a  words ‘plonked’ together.

You need to look at your business through the eyes of your customers to understand the value of your company logo. What first impression is your logo giving? Maybe you could piece together your own logo and later invest money in a more professional image. This may be harmful to you image as bad first impressions could last. Evaluate the cost of a professionally designed logo compared to what a professional image could do for your business. It’s really a very small amount compared to your next 5 years business plan.

How much should I spend on a professional design ?

If you go through the yellow pages to find a graphic design agency you will probably be shocked at the cost of a logo. However you are not being ripped off, it is because there is a lot of work involved and the studio will have to cover their own over heads.

If you look online for your logo design then you will probably find prices are a lot more competitive.  However, don’t be fooled into choosing the cheapest logo design company on the web. For example some web logo companies offer logo design of around £25!. But stop and think for a minute, how much time will a good designer spend on your important project for that much. On average a quality, trained graphic designer would probably want about £40 minimum an hour. A designers costs will also include the need to pay for software, hardware and the advertisement or costs of ensuring that you can find their website on the search engines. So, for £25 you could either receive a logo designed by a professional designer for about 30 minutes or somebody who is not well trained in design.

So your real question must be is the face of my business worth more than £25 or 30 minutes! It takes time, a careful thought process, research and design experience to produce quality corporate identity, and to create a logo that will really work for your business. A well trained designer should be spending a good day to create impressive and original initial logo concepts, and possibly time before this to gather reference. You will then want to have the opportunity of  revisions so that you can have any changes you want made to the logo design at no additional hidden extra cost.

As a rough guide of cost you should consider a minimum of between £150 to £600.  Each project of course is different and has varying cost considerations. Some of the larger companies will spend thousands on their image but for small to medium sized business this would be about right.

How do I choose a logo design company ?

When considering which design business to choose you should look at the portfolio displayed on the designers website or ask to see some examples of work. Different designers will have different approaches on how to design your company image so you should go with the designer that you feel will best reflect your business through their own design. Most designers will be happy to create the logo working closely with you. You can give a designer details of everything you would like to see in your logo and everything you wouldn’t! In fact the more information you can give to the designer the better as although they may be very good at their job they cannot read minds! So remember the more info the better.

Will I be able to use the logo on my website, business cards and sign board ?

For different uses of your logo you will require different files. For internet and website use you will require an optimised jpeg file. The jpeg is optimised for lower file size so that your web pages open quickly when the logo is placed on them. No one wants to wait long periods of time for web pages to load and most of the time they wont.

If you would like your logo to be featured on your company stationery then a designer for the creation of the stationery is strongly recommended. Letterheads and business cards created in Microsoft word only give bad impressions to your clients. You don’t need to spend a fortune on stationery design but £150 for the design of a business card, letterhead and compliment slip would be a recommended minimum. For stationery you will require an Adobe Illustrator file. This is a file created by an industry standard design program and provides the best results when it comes to logo and stationery design.

If you would just like a high resolution image of your logo then you will require a vector based logo. If you would like a sign board or shop front to feature your company logo then again you will need to give the sign makers the Adobe Illustrator file as this file will be in vector format and can be resized to any size without loss of quality.

So be sure to check that you will be provided with the right files for what it is you would like to use your new logo for. It is recommended that you get the Adobe Illustrator file though even if you only want a logo for web use. You never know how much your business may grow or if it will be needed at a later date. Some logo designers offer free printers cooperation services after the logo is design this is most valuable as you do not want to pay extra for files or worse not be able to use your logo for what you wanted.

So which designer do I use ?

Go with the design business that offers all the important things mentioned above. If you are unsure what the design service is offering then ask first before committing. Logorunner design service proves value for money and quality guaranteed.

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What are your company’s philosophies, goals and objectives?

Launching a company can be a very personal act. If your start-up business is successful, it will succeed because it is a reflection of your personality. What you are willing to try will have more bearing on your success than what you know. What lengths are you willing to go to in order to make your business and brand succeed.

The design of your business and the future brand you build is equally as important as the effort you put into a new venture. Your business has to reflect the strengths of your personality and abilities. Conveying a solid brand and identity is very important. It should stay in the memory of your target audience, inspire customer confidence and truly represent your business professionally.

Your new business identity

One of the first steps when considering your new logo design is how you plan to use it. You have to know how where and how it will be used. For example, a logo created for a website or full colour stationery printing may also need to work for two colour printing such and letterheads and faxing.

No doubt your new logo needs to be adaptable and be more useful than for just a single application. Most modern print processes and applications can easily handle full colour logos with intricate gradients, transparencies and special effect filters. The process is only harder for the designer to try and make these effects vector based so it can be blown up to large scale applications such as banners and billboards.

Your logo identity should represent your company. How it appears tells the potential customers what kind of business you have. This doesn’t have to be taken literally but just having stylish fonts or simplistic design can speak volumes about quality. Colours play a very important part of how you appear. Colour has meaning. How colour is used in your logo is important.

A detailed brief can help answer some important early questions, and will give your designer a solid base to work from. What are your company’s philosophies, goals and objectives? These will also have an impact on your final design.  Include small quirky ideas, something to spark imagination. These can then be adapted and you never know may play a small but significant part of the final concept.

Stand out from the crowd

When it comes to branding your business you should really know what it is that makes your company different. Ask yourself what makes you unique and what designs would clearly help depict this. The ultimate purpose is for people to recognize your logo and associate it with your business and build up trust. Here at the Logorunner we like to keep things simple. Designs should be clean, unique, iconic. Your business logo should stand out from the competition.

We believe your design should try to be timeless. Something that will not date. Following trends is fine, but tailor into that quality design and it should remain fresh for a long time. If you keep re-branding and changing your identity because of poor design then how can  you expect to build up trust. Most of the best known brands have simple and iconic identities.

The Logorunner can help facilitate in creating a bespoke, unique, timeless, and quality logo and identity. It will speak volumes about your company and put you on the right road to a successful brand and help you build an exciting future.

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What exactly is a brand anyway?

From an early age we make thousands of choices that ultimately decide what kind of person we will be. Whether we will be good or bad, trustworthy or unreliable, unkind or responsible, hardworking or lazy. Everything we do and the way we act along with our appearance will give an outward impression to others.  This is how we define our own reputation, and it can determine how successful we become in life. For a company it’s exactly the same, and we call it a brand.

It’s important to know the difference between identity and branding, to understand what makes a successful brand.

Branding is not about trying  to get potential clients to choose you over competition, it’s about getting your audience to see you as the only solution to their problem. It’s not about you. It’s not about your product. It’s not about your service. It’s about them.

Advertising grabs their minds, branding takes their hearts.

Standing out from a crowd is easy, but you need good reason to do so. Your logo gives your business the recognizable face to the world, but it’s what people think when they see your logo that is important. Your logo carries your reputation for reliability and trust that may take years to build. It is important to convey all aspects of your brand with positive, clear communication.

You can’t afford to be complacent. Your reputation or brand has its foundations in the quality of the things you make and the services you provide. A brand is only as good as the reputation that builds it. If the branding is wrong, so is everything else.

Build a successful brand from your strengths.

As a business you set yourselves tough targets to make the best possible impression to customers and clients. This impression is based not just on your products or services, or your identity but also on the customers impression of every one of your staff. The brand begins in the business plan, build a successful brand from your strengths. If one part of your actions falls below the standard that your customers expect, then their overall perception is affected.

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“It’s not about you. It’s not about your product. It’s not about your service. It’s about them.”

-Rob Frankel

 

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Awake is a Powerful Professional Premium WordPress theme. It comes with an intuitive easy to use admin panel giving you full control over every major design element throughout your site. Whether you need to add custom sidebars, edit your homepage content or change your footer column layout you’ll find just the option you need when you need it.

Awake also comes with an impressive easy to customize homepage slider with two transition effects and five staging options.

Need an image gallery or slideshow on every page? Want to embed a widget into a page? You can do all this and more using simple content shortcodes.

Creating your website has never been easier with Awake.

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* Versatile jQuery Slider
– Populate with WordPress Categories or Custom Defined Images
– Accepts Html & shortcode
– Two transition effects – Fading or tabbed
– 5 Different Stage Layouts all easily manageable through admin area
– Drag and Drop Interface to Reorder Images
– Image Preloader
– Option to display on every page

* WordPress 3.0 Ready
– Includes full support for WordPress’s new Navigation Menus

* Multiple Style Variations – Select from over 40 Custom CSS style variations from Admin Area

* 70+ Content ShortCodes
– Style your Post or Page content easily
– ShortCodes include, Image Gallery, jQuery Tabs & Toggles, infinitely nest-able column layouts and many more
– Easy to insert from WordPress Wysiwyg Editor

* Custom Sidebars
– Create as many custom sidebars as you like
– Can be applied on Post or Pages

* Custom Widgets
– 7 Custom Widgets (Flickr feed, Twitter feed, Popular & Recent posts, SubPage navigation Contact Us & Contact Form)
– All widgets support multiple instances

* Ajax Contact Form – Add contact form to any Page, Sidebar or Footer, just enter you email address

* Social Bookmarking
– Built in support for Social Bookmaking on Blog Posts – Bit.ly API support for URL shorting

* Breadcrumbs Navigation

* About Author Box on Posts

* Related and popular post modules

* Nested comments

* jQuery Drop-down menu

* Font Replacement (cufon)

* Huge Tabbed Admin Area
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* Layered PSDs are included for easy modification

* Extensive Documentation Included

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