Here is a list of free icon sites that I’ve collected over the past few weeks. For a while, I searched and searched for icons in Google images, and was always dissapointed with what was returned. One day, I came across a high quality, free icons site, and learned what to search for to find more.

The icons below are a sample of what kinds of icons you’ll find on the 39 free icon sites listed below. Each listing has brief descriptions about the sites that tell what kinds of icons are available on each site.

Free Icon Sites:

1. 2pt3 Icons
   A set of 75, one color flat mini icons, that are repeated in 5 different colors, to make a total of 375 icons. These are pretty basic and look like they were made with the Sansicons Icon Generator.
   visit 2pt3 Icons
2. 300 Images from 1800 Sites
   300 mini icons separated by category.
   visit 300 Images from 1800 Sites
3. Ajax Activity Indicators
   Free set of animated gif Ajax activity indicators
   visit Ajax Activity Indicators
4. AJax Activity Indicators
   About 50 free ajax loading / activity indicators.
   visit AJax Activity Indicators
5. AjaxLoad
   Free tool to generate animated loading indicator icons, to use for activiyty/ loading image.
   visit AjaxLoad
6. ASP .NET Icons
   300 small icons, meant for ASP.NET applications, but could be used elsewhere.
   visit ASP .NET Icons
7. Bullet Madness
   Free mini icons. Pretty basic, but some cool ones there.
   visit Bullet Madness
8. CrystalXP.net Gallery
   Lots of free crystal theme xp icon sets.
   visit CrystalXP.net Gallery
9. Developer Icons
   102 royalty free icons.
   visit Developer Icons
10. DeviantART Icons
    Lots of random Icons here.
    visit DeviantART Icons
11. Enhanced Labs
    Free desktop icon sets
    visit Enhanced Labs
12. Fast Icon
    Quality icon sets. Royalty free. Hundreds.
    visit Fast Icon
13. Feed Icons
    Free RSS feed icons.
    visit Feed Icons
14. Firefox and Mozilla Icon Packs
    The Icon Packs Project provides a collection of icon packs for Mozilla products such as Firefox, SeaMonkey and ThunderBird. An icon pack allows you to change the window icons of your browser/email software.
    visit Firefox and Mozilla Icon Packs
15. GNOME Art Icons
    Great Icon sets
    visit GNOME Art Icons
16. GNOME-look.org
    Free Icon Sets
    visit GNOME-look.org
17. HoHoHo Mini Icons
    Large set of mini greyscale icons.
    visit HoHoHo Mini Icons
18. Iconaholic.com Icons
    Free os x themed icon sets, geared toward desktop use.
    visit Iconaholic.com Icons
19. IconBulk
    Royalty Free Stock Icons: 2887 Mac Os X icons in 142 sets.
    visit IconBulk
20. icone-gif.com
    Kind of a hodgepodge of crazy animated gifs, and icons. Good luck.
    visit icone-gif.com
21. Icons by Echo
    Free Star Trek Icons.
    visit Icons by Echo
22. Ihearty Free Icons
    Some really original and interesting looking icon sets.
    visit Ihearty Free Icons
23. InterfaceLIFT
    Tons of icons here: offer 16,222 icons in 1,047 sets for use with Mac OS X, and 4,457 icons in 269 sets for use with Windows XP.
    visit InterfaceLIFT
24. KDE-Look.org
    Big directory of icons and more
    visit KDE-Look.org
25. Leo’s Icon Archive
    List of over 12,000 free icons. Lots of these aren’t the greatest, but there are some good ones, and they’re free, so we can’t complain.
    visit Leo’s Icon Archive
26. MaxPower
    There are no actual icons here, but the site features lots of links to free icon sets.
    visit MaxPower
27. Mini Pixel Icons
    These mini icons are designed at 14Å~14px with transparent background. They are specially designed for header or side navigation buttons.
    visit Mini Pixel Icons
28. Page Full of Icons
    This is simply a page full of hundreds of various icons. It takes a while to load.
    visit Page Full of Icons
29. Pixel Pressicons
    139 cool free and original icon sets.
    visit Pixel Pressicons
30. Pixelgirl Free Icons
    The title says free, but then there’s this note that says “Please note that these icons are owned by the artist and can NOT be redistributed without permission. “. I guess use them, but don’t redistribute them.
    visit Pixelgirl Free Icons
31. Sanscons
    Highly customizable icon generator. These icons are small and simple, only one color, and flat simple design. CSS based icons. (The premise is very simple — use transparent gif icons and take advantage of CSS to style them in whatever way you choose.)
    visit Sanscons
32. Tango Icon Gallery
    Free Icon Set in SVG format. There are some great windows style icons here. Great for applications or websites.
    visit Tango Icon Gallery
33. The Icon Factory
    Lots of free icons in Mac, Windows, Pixadex, and Candybar formats, and are free for pesonal use only.
    visit The Icon Factory
34. Web Badges
    Hundreds of free web badges. These are the little 88×15 images that you sometimes see used for rss, valid xml and valid html. (Standard web badges or web buttons 80×15 pixel and 88×31 pixel in PNG format (maximum quality) only with the “Silkscreen” font. )
    visit Web Badges
35. Web Control Icons
    Free set 10 icons, repeated in 4 colors and 3 sizes. Pretty good.
    visit Web Control Icons
36. Wikimedia Commons
    This site has mother load of free icons. It’s almost a bit difficult to sort through because there are just so many. Excelent resorce for free icons.
    visit Wikimedia Commons
37. xanthic eye
    Free Icons
    visit xanthic eye
38. Yellow Icon
    Free Community Icons belong to the individual authors or companies and are free for personal and non commercial use.
    visit Yellow Icon
39. Zyotism Aesthetics Icons
    A few small, high quality, free icon sets
    visit Zyotism Aesthetics Icons

If you are reading this article, maybe you are seriously considering working from home, so where do you start? If you have searched for "work at home" on Google, you may have been a bit overwhelmed by all the results promising big money for little or no work. Well, you can forget about that right now. A home business is like any other business. It takes time and hard work. Offers that promise lots of easy money are almost guaranteed to be a scam, or something that only an expert could make money at, so as a beginner, you should just try to steer clear of anything that sounds too good to be true. 9 out of 10 times, it will be a scam.

Yes, there are a lot of work at scams out there, but don't let that discourage you. I like to think of the internet as a sea of opportunity. There are fortunes to be made, and people are doing it every day.

I would say that by far the best place to start would be making your own website. Publishing a website used to be something that only experts could handle. These "webmasters" really had to put in lots of hours becoming familiar with HTML, FTP, and a lot of other things you may not have even heard of before they could attempt to publish a website.

Now, things are a lot different. Building a web site has become much more accessible, and much cheaper. It's so easy that young kids and even senior citizens are now blogging. I'm sure you or some of your friends kids have MySpace pages, which are essentially blogs and forums (a forum is a type of online community where users can join, post topics, and reply to other posts. Kind of like a huge group chat). With the advent of web 2.0, better cheaper technology, and also the rise in popularity of free and open source resources, someone with very little to no web development experience can have a website up and running in a matter of hours.

Getting a Website
By far, the best and easiest way to get a website is to go with a hosting company that offers "1 click installs", or instant installations for Blogging and Forum software. Blogs and Forums make it possible for someone with no experience to get good content up fast.

Dreamhost and Godaddy are 2 hosting companies that offer "1-click installs" for Blogging and Forum software.

Dreamhost Hosting
Personally, I recommend Dreamhost, because they tend to care, where as many other huge hosting companies don't. They cost a bit more, about $119 for a year, but it is worth it. Edit: I actually used a promo code and was able to get 1 year for about $60. Go to: Dreamhost.com and enter Promo Code: WMLGS1 to save $50.

GoDaddy Hosting
GoDaddy is a really big company, so they are going to be a lot cheaper, but there is a trade-off. For lower cost, there is much worse customer service. Their hosting starts at about $45/ year. www.GoDaddy.com

Monetizing Your Website
How Do I Make Money Online With My Website?

So I bet you're wondering, "What's the secret to making money online?". The answer is selling ad space. Have you ever wondered how free newspapers and magazines stay in business? It's because they make a fortune on advertising, and you can effectively do the same thing with a website. If you are thinking that it would be really difficult to go out and find advertisers for your site, it would be, but fortunately, you don't have to. There are several services that will bring the advertisers to you. All you have to do is sign up and copy and paste a small bit of code into your web pages. 2 of these services that I can whole heartedly recommend are: Google Adsense and Text-Link-Ads.

Google Adsense
Google AdSense is the fastest and easiest way to monetize your site. The only thing you have to worry about is creating good content. Just put the small bit of javascript code (you don't need to know what javascript is) somewhere in your page, and Google Adsense then delivers relevant Google ads on your website's content pages. You get paid every time someone clicks one of the ads. The amount of money that you are paid can be anywhere from $.01 up to over $20, depending on the content, and keywords that appear most on your pages. Pages that contain high competition words like anything to do with lawsuits, hosting, or poker tend to pay the most, but most topics pay on average about $.20 to $1 per click.

Click here to check sign up for Adsense:

Text-Link-Ads
Text-link-ads is a pretty new service that I have found to be very effective. It is similar to Adsense in that they give you a small bit of code to place on your site, and they take care of the rest. Otherwise, the way it works is that when you sign up, all the details about your website are entered into a database that thousands of potential advertisers then get access to. When an advertiser wants to advertise on your page, they pay a monthly fee, depending on how popular your site is. For a brand new site, the starting rate is usually around $3/ month per link, and you can have up to 10 links on a page, but 8 pays more. If you were to sell 8 spots, you could generate $24/month in revenue for that page. Sell 8 spots on 8 pages and you could generate $192/month, and so on. The more popular your pages get, the higher the monthly payments are. So you can see the potential there.

Click here to sign up for Text-Link-Ads

The success you will have with these programs really depends on the quality of the content that you are providing. Good content will bring visitors to your site, which will in turn make you more money. Bad content will just sit there and do nothing.

These aren't the only ways to make money online, but I believe that they are the best place to start. Good luck, and to your success!