Icojoy has beautiful free icon sets including web development icon sets, pixel icon sets, rss icon sets & smiley icons.

This is the 4th part of their web development icon sets. Click here to find their all free icons.

Package: 60 icons
Sizes: 24×24
File Types: .png, .ico, .tif, .gif, .bmp
Colors: Colored with and without shadows, with a subtle gray shade and transparent. .Bmp, .gif formats are optimized for lighter backgrounds

Everyday Icons has a playground area, which has a chic interface, presenting free patterns, icons & some PDF note designs.

Specially, patterns are high quality, can be previewed & downloaded in different colors.

Currently, you can find 100 patterns and 6 small icon sets.

DinPattern by Evan Eckard is a website presenting quality & unique patterns created by him.

Currently there are 60+ free patterns to use.

New patterns are being added by time and before downloading them, you can easily preview how they look.

bwpx.icns, is a set of 250 quality black and white icons created by Paul Armstrong Designs.

Every icon in the set is very detailed and clear.

Within the set, you can find any icon an application may require like arrows, baskets, documents, comments, users, photos, etc.

Icons are 18px*18px size and in GIF format.

Backgrounds, patterns can easily change the total look & feel of a website.

Squidfingers is sharing 150+ patterns that can be used in our designs.

Click to check them out.

CSS Globe has a chic animated progress bar built with CSS and an animated GIF file.

It is simply an EM tag above an animated GIF file which is blocking the part of the GIF file to creating the progress bar stop effect.

As this progress bar is only a visual trick, it can not show a "live" progress but only a static one which the percentage of progress to be shown was defined before the page is loaded.