Icons are one of the design elements that easily adds a twist to any design and can be used almost everywhere.

FindIcons.com is an amazing icon search engine that has a huge database of 300,000+ icons in 2100+ icon sets.

The website does everything to help you "find the right icon" with an advanced search system where the results can be filtered with:

• size (define a range)
• color (select multiple colors)
• style
• license
• re-searching within the results

After testing it with several common keywords, its results were very accurate.

It also displays the similar keywords (and number of icons for that keywords) where you can instantly switch to another keyword.

A unique feature offered by FindIcons.com is an online converter that can help you download icons in almost any format you want (png, bmp, gif, jpg, psd, eps & more.. ).

If you're a frequent icon searcher, you can -optionally- sign-up for a free account and add icons/sets to your "favorites".

We know that, sometimes, it is not about finding a single icon but a whole set. FindIcons.com also presents the complete icon sets under the "Browse" menu.

To sum up, FindIcons.com is a must-bookmark for every designer and developer who searches for free icons.

Images used in websites have a serious keyword value when they are used right.

There are 3 variables, which we think of, can show search engines what the image is about? These are title, alt, and the image name. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam team describing us which ones are important in this video:

What is alt attribute?

The alt attribute is used in HTML and XHTML documents to specify text that is to be rendered when the element to which it is applied cannot be rendered. In HTML 4.01, the attribute is required for the img and area element types. It is optional for the input element type and the deprecated applet element type.

Iconfinder has 1000′s of icons in their database and lets you search for icons by using keywords.

It even has a widget to use with Mac OSX.